Friday, May 16, 2025

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Pulsating object.

"The problem (one of the problems) with using mutants as a 1:1 metaphor for marginalized groups is that they're simultaneously an oppression metaphor and a power fantasy." --@edidin.bsky.social

Barnabas and Dr Hoffman.

febrile brillig · abrupt snare
   the case to be made dwindles
still we strive · over corrugated
   mem'ries, the fruit of retrospect
dead malls speak · spent inundation
   tell a sorry return
trite betrayals · authors reread
   have nothing much to say
brillig-colored sky · opals that look like
   topaz, knowledge that will perish
in splendor & the sluice · slathers contempt
   a gravelly hardware stop
i walk · where words wither into
   empty & emptier shelves
& all they will have · in the hard turnings
   is that the maze was bad
this riddlesky · skims souls from the drivers
   who percolate unknown
beneath it nuggets · or spooled hist'ries
   of aspirations thwarted
the night draws on · i have this madwatch
   i took from a cooling hand
Babel one · storey more
   is lifted now & forever
by the dry river · brillig scum
   accosts the passing nose
   & this was paradise

Magnolias.

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