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makes no difference

Posted on March 24, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week If God is a man, he could never understand the mundane threats women experience every single day of our lives. — Bora Chung / “Maria, Gratia Plena” / Your Utopia When the warming ocean … Continue reading →

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resistance and liberation

Posted on March 18, 2024 by istsfor manity

Best Thing I Read This Morning Modern racism feeds off self-interest and individualism. Prejudice is an argument that explains why some live in comfort and others do not. Mass consumerism is an empty, soulless utopia of more, more, and more, … Continue reading →

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do go careening

Posted on March 17, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The only rule of travel is,Don’t come back the way you went.Come a new way …There is no question I am someone starving.There is no question I am making this journey to find out … Continue reading →

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praise for thee (redux)

Posted on March 16, 2024 by istsfor manity

Praise for thee istsfor manity reader: “I suffered from a severe case of leopard spotting, it led to a loss of jobs, family, and friends. Reading the thee istsfor manity reader every morning was directly responsible for my adding 20 lbs. of muscle … Continue reading →

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ice mommy malone

Posted on March 15, 2024 by istsfor manity

found voicemail tanscription blues . . . do not use the toilet and flush with the reserve water held in the tank or water that has been saved in a bucket or nearby tub no flushing UNT5IL the end of … Continue reading →

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lily pad hermetic

Posted on March 14, 2024 by istsfor manity

Eye Control Eye control mama in the least astounding ways by belly up singing or Billie Holiday braying by the light of the moon nothing remains diatonic or dismorphic if it’s not recreational I pass the strangest man on the … Continue reading →

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defilement is postmodern

Posted on March 13, 2024 by istsfor manity

not art / snot fart defilement is postmoderndefacement is commitmentvandalism is homecoming What I’m Reading: . . . re-vision is what keeps vision from hardening into dogma. — Eleanor Wilner / “Her Introduction” / from Her Read by Jennifer Sperry … Continue reading →

pear of anguish

Posted on March 11, 2024 by istsfor manity

plumb me ive got easter island heads talking at each otherive got songs for drella in my noise cancelling earsive got pier paolo passolini’s 120 days of sodom on the rewind—and a mustard solo on a hebrew national on a … Continue reading →

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empire and imperialism

Posted on March 10, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week . . . I am waiting for someoneto really discover Americaand wail . . . — Lawrence Ferlinghetti / “I Am Waiting” / These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems The planet just … Continue reading →

a fever dream

Posted on March 9, 2024 by istsfor manity

the word : firmament we are lost at sea without anchorage. the firmament is a figment of a syphillitic fever dream. the firmament is affixed to a corrugated sheet of tin—full of pinpricks—and backed by massive metal armatures. the sun … Continue reading →