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Flying Monkeys Origin Story.

" 'You're so young,' he said. 'It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times. I wish you could have known this country when it was still salvageable.'
'It might survive,' I said, 'changed, but still itself.' "

--Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler via @aestallings.bsky.social

Cranched Amidst Goose Shit.

"Finding Krasnov"

the window's vigil curved
into one unbending ray
it was a teacher
assassin of an old shoe

as skin under the skin
prepares its leap in light
in the streets thousands
the window's vigil curved

One Tin Soldier.