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"I've been pulled into a disciplinary meeting for saying robotic slurs at work."

"Frog tied some string around the box. 'There,' he said. 'Now we will not eat any more cookies.'

'But we can cut the string and open the box,' said Toad.

'That is true,' said Frog."

—@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

I didn't know "Hot Rod Lincoln" was a cover.

“Pork Chow Mein”

grebes have no hist'ry,
   personal or collective,
like the sands they stalk

a grebe is like: snow
   the morning after it has
melted, unobserved

a grebe is like: fire
   that can rage through a forest,
light an incense stick

a grebe is: clumsy,
   graceful, ugly, beautiful,
as the light changes

grebes never speak their
   hearts, no matter how heavy,
the sea can do that

i can only watch
   a grebe so long: my mind snaps:
that is their defense

the first grebe stood at
   the edge of the first sea and
then there were others

if something survives
   the earth’s destruction, will be
a grebe’s thin shadow

(1983)

Irreducible.