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at looming dark

What Is Coming Magpie thoughts:Thunder asunder —Divides the heart. Polly squawking.I have witnessed this before.It sounds absurd. A crow Laocoön —Warn me not —Don’t wish to know what this way comes. Sparrow filchA higher logic.Flits away at looming dark. What … Continue reading

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the garbage disposal

From The Managment Office (redux) Dear Residents, Due to recent kitchen sink backups, this is a gentle reminder of what cannot go down the garbage disposal: Thank you for your cooperation and please contact the Management Office with ointment for … Continue reading

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preyed upon schools

Sink — Alexa, how do we survive? — You, humans, are like preyed upon schools of fish — Hoping for safety in numbers.Let that sink in. What I’m Reading: Currently, about 831 million people live at or below the level … Continue reading

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everyday is monday 

this memory hole into youinto the darknessinto this memory holewhere is your year in reviewthe vestige of the atom loosedthen fretting a sense of alienationannihilation abomination abnegationand ferreting the soundtrack of childhoodstanding waiting for the avalanche of crueltylost my copy … Continue reading

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crashed my way

Proper Dream Categories I felt a crack in my spirit and all the heat seeped out Your lower case specialness sorted it into the proper dream categories I crashed my way out of sleep and ate breakfast earlier than usual … Continue reading

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utterly mercurial snitch

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week This terrorizing and demonizing pretends to be in service of recreating a white America that never existed. The US when white supremacists like Trump were young was whiter, but this was never a white … Continue reading

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new condition beige

Ether Leftist scruff —a stranger —two recently-arrived spidersdelivered beforea communist icon.The craquelure profound. Small audiences are a bore. Ether revisits ruefulness,a trick or two up its cleave. What is that terrible whining noise?What is that warpaint tripe? Pull the jib … Continue reading

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reluctance and vulnerability

palliatives I. struggling to make payment • make equipment • make sense • make cents • eat wire • raise a cavil • return library books • go to my silent place • but rarely do i crocodile these topics … Continue reading

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heard your footfalls

Reductive Redux I heard a Colombian river was full of cocaine hippos.I heard we’ve passed 7 of the 9 thresholds that make earth habitable for human life.I heard hard times are coming.I heard we can lose ourselves in augmented reality … Continue reading

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thing thing thing 

A Methodology I. You know me. She knows me. And both of you know I’m incapable of washing the mangoes just for the sake of it. So let’s not play nuclear family melodrama tropes — there will be no keyboard … Continue reading

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