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Plath's Tarot.

"Beach Blanket Balzac"

newsreels fading
fodder-crowned
snow footsteps' foinline
wrought

Checking to see if Outlook is back up.

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."

—TomRobbins, Still Life with Woodpecker via @artsalad.bsky.social

"Environmental destruction is so often described as something that happens rather than something somebody does>"

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" 'For that matter,' he said, 'you could say the same thing about novels.'."

"i have nothing but slop art, & i must scream"

mortal ronin
white cloud dodge
marked alley
woodstain newel
hoist debt

The Moon in Your Hands.

"I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found that story."

- Virginia Woolf, THE WAVES via @alinastefanescu

Like Air.

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"I'm going to put on Satantango and tell my kids it's Harry Potter."

"Even the simplest journey was only the superficial evidence--the diagram--of another, more difficult one." —M John Harrison, The Course of the Heart (1992)

Bird is so metal.

"team Moloch"

gray cauldron
cardboard
six foot step
cool thousand
mile teeth
choice

Too Soft.

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Tanka.

"Mina's lamps"

scarlet whispers
flown
book stained by wheels
moonscrawl clown joist
past

At Netherne Hospital.

Thousand Year Reich, built from the bubbles on an idiot's lips.

Not to mention cats.

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"Cynthia hijacked me, a loser, who desire/ had never touched before..."

To be the dancing ape, not the ape that bands together to kill.

Tanka.

"GLP/GPT"

the everflow
squidveil
& lodge pool
1 could stock mouse joints

Raptor.

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Diaper Daddy.

"There's no running-from that is not a running-to." —The Rouse

A Salvific Kettledrum.

coming to rest
round putsch
highway stop
decoy
at staunch rote

Notes Toward an Ending.

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A redemptive urge to wander the earth.

in close woods
dark hours pool
years-long plan
haywire
death foiled

The Broken Bridge.

"On his first day in prison, Russell Brand should walk up to the biggest, meanest-looking inmate and misquote Voltaire to him." —@pattonoswalt.bsky.social

"It has often struck me how few unarguably great poets did not also translate."

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I should have been a pair of shiny claws.

"in 50 or 100 years people are going to read about the trump years in history books, learn about the president who spent all his time obsessing over grandiose home renovation projects while offhandedly imposing crippling tariffs and starting the stupidest war ever and...just not believe the stupidity" —@tomtomorrow.bsky.social via

Emily Dickinson Opines on the NSA.

veil thin hour
sootfall slow
choice-haunt
newsreels
rags set fire

Matches.

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"That's like Darth Vader losing the Death Star."

this gray sky
after so long blue
looks deadly
fraught
loud-voiced

"Hold on, are they selling printed Substack articles over there?"

America's decision to abandon psychology has had the very real consequence of rendering whole classes of problems insoluble.

No Drapa Pardon.

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Roofing.

"an experiment in kakistocracy"

grudge miles
ferrying black stars
would you pray down
crossroad sloyd

Lowrider bicycles.

“[The University of Buffalo poetics program] has changed American literature and it should be allowed to continue to do that work,” [Juliana] Spahr wrote. “Someday, someone will write a laudatory history, and if it ends now, that history will have to say who let it end and why.” —via

Better together: tailfins & Brutalism.

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Haunted house.

causality
saudade swoon

go fight in
good boy gray

2026 ED138.

"The great days of jesterdom are over and are not coming back." —Franz Kafka via

I am No Longer That Jabalia Child.

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Best Giallo soundtracks.

"And 'Immortality' / mildews… / in the museums of the moon"

— Mina Loy via @mtthwtmknsn

"Actually the leading open problem in philosophy is if there are open problems in philosophy."

"rosary of elves"

built to last wraith
night full of elbows
dark coffee joy
vow

Golden Orifice.

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The Sun over Athens.

"Answer me this Malcolm Gladwell you fraud if 10,000 hours doing something is all it takes to master it then how do you explain why nobody in LA knows how to fucking drive?"
—@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app

Cherokee word for 'strange'.

scrawny output
piss smell
strange alloy i mold
a soft loop

Exquisite Paradise Mountain.

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Updated Uzbek alphabet.

blaze at Eagle's Nest
wolfish smile
dark swoop home
crowds hoist bosh

"Then the universities discovered that poets and novelists would pay tuition to sit in a circle and be honest with one another."

Things tribalism is not the answer to: everything that's a real problem.

"He’s talking really about music (and probably Hegel), where a waltz is recognisable as ¾ time, but in which we encounter something else, some residue of thousands of dances, mostly in Germany; all these feet scuff the surface of the dance, so that you can’t help but smell a certain kind of shoe leather when you hear tum ti ti tum ti ti."

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"And an altarpiece was never a portrait of God. It shows what a church wants you to believe about God."

"the blurry messenger"

still dark
here to vote
south nook
what fate dodge
plans foil

Polaris is now the highest amateur liquid rocket ever launched, setting a new record at the 2026 Launch Canada Challenge—altitude of 63,497 feet.

In the 1960s public schools had special classrooms for the “educable mentally handicapped.” Most of those kids had lead poisoning.

Lead paint was banned in U.S. in 1978.

Leaded gasoline was banned in 1996.

Kids’ blood levels dropped by 95%.

Bans work. We should ban shit again." —@ssteoingraber1.bsky.social

Stabilize.

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Johnny Cool.

No matter how nihilistic i become—it's never enough.

The Times They Are a-Changin'.

"war dogs"

crookfief
dim ammo, used
stompface coign—
why allow moth
rest

Joan Didion on John Huston's The Night of the Iguana.

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Brutalist Ghost Stories.

"The worst thing about using a phone in the dark is that it lights your face without lighting your surroundings. Scrolling, hyper-visible but blind; I like to pretend I'm an anglerfish lure, the beacon of a predator much greater than myself" —@ctrlcreep.bsky.social

Autechre in performance.

woolen tool
high azure's aid
go cop real squelch
moisthaunt town

Quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit.

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Mazohyst of Decadence.

"and wears Don's smirk and shares Don's smell..." —Andrew Frisardi via

On a line by Housman.

plant tilted, pawn to King Rook Four
dull turquoise
cranium tree topper
who can speak for us?
what weldbook fair?
Cisquatch's vine
foil gown

We should be forced by law to give up all other cars & everyone gets one of these for free.

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'Erebus' Passing through the Chain of Bergs.

"This liminal space where everything general seems too vacuous and everything particular seems irrelevant" —@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social

The Lay of Scratta.

"tea going in no time"

arc of history
no skyhook
crowds fought
through Soylent Beige

"All the customs they sought to emulate (the music, the dance, the colors, the festivals) came from the Tang, and yet all of this was happening during the Song."

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Atopos.

"pre-crime"

phone book
cancelled lines
duration swamped
with lost clouds
deemed choice

Ohilen.

Positivism is false when pareidolia sinks its fangs in you.

Game of Clock the Doctor.