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The hunger for poetry grows.

"INTERSTELLAR WILD (Anagrams)

We speak of the interstellar wild
like we aren’t part of it. She dwells
in we who still sparkle—a fettered,
skeletal star. We flow in her tepid
earth, like weeds, patterns of will
personified. We talk, shatter well—
written like Death’s pale flowers."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Awful day today.

"Flashes"

1. The universe doesn't ask us if we believe in cause & effect. it just kills us if we don't.

2. Nothing is more thin-skinned than a rapist.

3. The surveillance society promises freedom from crime, & ends by criminalizing freedom.

4. It's not the pronouns that are unstable, it's the first person.

5. Heroes are worse since they started dressing the part.

6. I will settle for nothing less than postage-stamp status, & i'm not even the best of the unknown poets.

7. Perhaps it was a mistake to make one of the prizes of winning the game the power to change the rules of the game. (A simple trophy might have sufficed.) But then again maybe there are things too important to be left to the playing of a game.

Sdubid. (via)