Baffling As a would-be baffler, I’m engaged in creating something fool-proof. But there’s such a wide variety of fools that I don’t know how to baffle them all. Fools come in many stripes and furs, demonstrate a myriad of facets, advocate a host of harebrained actions, override some basic setups, and dare to wreck whatever’s […]
Read more "jacquelyn shah ~ baffling"Elon, Extraterrestrial Elon has reverse engineered our trajectory. To mars. A dreamer and futurist who thinks out of the box, he’s clearly well ahead of his time. And ours. There is no comparison. In light of the 8.2 billion people now on this planet, his campaign to personally proffer seed to repopulate the world has […]
Read more "Karen Schauber ~ Elon, Extraterrestrial"i want a requiem by a requiem for (birdfolk in the Xingqinggong Park and elsewhere) sparrows and brownie song thrushes moiling rustling blades panicles scattered tree nuts fallen leaves taking death with such light heart they have gone live again flickering flames like acorns and filberts fed by sun-eating leaves they’ve made themselves plump as […]
Read more "Lucie Chou ~ i want a requiem by a requiem for"Holed up in a filthy duvet tightly bundled upwith the TV mutedscrolling YouTube shortstrying to escape the shameof not being able to remember getting homehow do you purge itis it enough to sweat it outmaybe I should go sit in a boxand tell the Fatherfingers grasping at the rosariesdirty words reverberating fromthe walnut panelling or perhaps […]
Read more "Michael Ashley ~ Holed up in a filthy duvet"Unanswered Prayers You didn’t seem to mind the unanswered prayers of your bebop aloneless. I brought you liquor and smokes, a dwelling place of vinyl: Clifford Brown, Art Blakey and the Bird! Your eyes drifted to carefully coiffed girls in the pew and their angularity of vision. I held you blameless, but don’t think that […]
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