"Starsky and Hutch reruns, dubbed into diverse languages, may turn out, in the long run, to be a greater force for human rights than the Declaration of Independence." --Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning...Was the Command line (1999)


"Derivatives"

caltrops, tacks, and broken glass

talisman eloigned
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I wait · for you there
like · a stone
the magical efficacy
violets are blanu
of chicken blood
lime-green spongy vortex
on a dark desert highway
von Winde verweht
among the cephalopods


"Binoculars fixed on a strange new bird..." --Jimmy Carter


Cerulean.


Speaking through erasures. (via Silliman)