( via / via )

"Each came away from the lectures with his own version of the ‘Other’." (via aldaily)

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   the crass dark triad
that wrests power deftly
  you'd think we'd have sicced
some guardrails upon by
  this bug-laden run
what mad story chatter
  we tell to ourselves
drunk with the hero
  meme, slaughtering oft
for what's a dream trouble
  & half of our plans
are cellophane deathwrap
  to kiss a fool's ring
who calls himself top cat

Procession of Courtesans.

"I’d never say this in public. I still love beautiful books and believe in them."

- Jacques Derrida via @aliner

Schematic explosion.

( me / via )

A busy window.

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fathoms-below lemma
belied by dawn lawnmower

decathexis
nalioyexacyou

contrails at dawn fading
squalor fumble's earthquake
drive into the siltbank
elated by erasure

a swerve will teach cursive
as if paisley window
you rage at belated
conservative vermin

greenlit by glare hidden

Blackmail.

"MOUNTAIN GORILLA: a murmuring giant ruminating in moonlit rain" --@lukebradford01

The sole survivor of one air strike today.

( laura ostteen at dallas filth / via )

All the Way from Memphis.

"a crow's cry
flies into darkness ...
alone with myself"

--@ericcoliu

📻.

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this drab survival batters me
as death in spades collects spiders
what witness asks of idiots
the fraught scurrying bog of thorns

word skunked by angry plummetings
eye-bang & mission hamlet-proof
on Sedna i found rest, curved like
perished colonnades, withering

buckshot in the mile-long yardangs
we were through with by sundown's crisp
puffclap · these dark days that slip off

arresting thought & never pause
consist mainly of riddle-shards
& rotten planks across chasms

A Peace on Earth.

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Ｃｔｈｕｌｈｕ　マナチ.

"A SYMMYST is someone with whom you are embroiled in a mystery or secret." --@HaggardHawks

Ice. Somehow i think of this as a Vaporwave book*...Then the question arises: can there be Vaporwave by anticipation? Once i start thinking, other titles flow. The City in the Middle of the Night (for its theme of a trapped-rotation world). Gray & its sequel Yarn, by the inimitable Jon Armstrong (for the Fashionpunk). Moderan, of course (who anticipated much of the 21c). Perhaps among poets: Herrera y Reissig, Adelaide Crapsey (who only wore gray). Definitely the TV show UFO (1970)--& thus the star 70 Ophiuchi as well. Of Being Numerous. Musicians like YMO, Gary Numan, Lene Lovich (wherever New Wave gets most spacey). Bill Knott who most resembles our Vallejo. Not Vallejo himself. Ysabeau Wilce is pretty far out there (i'll let the pirates pass). Catherynne Valente's Radiance with its delicious silent-film evocation of Pluto. Lyssa Wolsak, Kristin Ryling among contemporary poets... I suppose Hell of the Cyr & all that project. Allison Parrish's Articulations. The Lojban language.

"So what about the poetry that continues to be written by humans? Parrish calls it ‘intention-typical poetry’."

piebald pavement mockingbird
doorbell still though left behind
a wisp on the wind
you brandish gray ash from sticks
of myrrh & crop circle snaps

the dawn likewise proffers nil
but debt paper blessings torn
you whisper doorbell ring
the antique turquoise cathode screen
has surf-harrowed burbclave vibes

Speaking of Lojban, i see that la sutysisku now automatically generates the zbalermorna spellings of words. Are people really using that? When you can also do Featural Lojban Abjad?

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* i haven't read Code Beast yet

( via / suzie riddle on fb )

Here's mine.

fake termite a circle round
the moon jerking roulette wheel
blue chull crossed with shuffle socks
you loiter here & coin bubbles

portal most where sun lingers
a blur knowing furtive rest
avoided wreck coiled elsewise
the ruth that sand dunes wander

"I had always assumed that once the climate disasters got bad enough, we would get our act together..."

"I plan to obtain a frontal lobotomy, becoming, thus, a living vegetable, and thus able to write novels that will please the unwashed rabble." --@harryskeeler

Gallery.

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GN 🌈.

"To tell the truth, drink seemed the only protection against the lacerations of his mind, now that he was back in New York, his foot rocking away once more on the much touted ladder of success. At this time the famous ladder was propped against nothing and led nowhere, and anyone foolish enough to make the world his oyster was courting ptomaine; yet the ladder tradition was still observed, and until the flames reached them young people were still found going through the motions of climbing." --Dawn Powell, A Time to be Born (1942)

Who all has played Einstein in a film?

funest summer weather purls
a plan started drably once
a bitter crumble wish-flutter

wan uptake & rust Mothman
appalling across bounds drives

"Perhaps no movie better plays a great big guessing game about Hudson’s sexuality than Man’s Favorite Sport?.