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"Across every continent that survived empire, one figure recurs."

      "small magnolias"

Eastward on the main drag · Brutalist gloom
encompasses thwart · the very chasm
      leers clownlike
   between lessons
oily lashes, leylines
delimit dirge scourges
what you know stinks noxious
in new bland canisters
      but Eastward
   benign esters
dissolve thwart · therapeutic
the answering fill · fistic cloudmesh
      prepares gleam's
   golden igloo
parking lot seems lucky
loud crows clyte upon frozen
harms & the whole ullage
of Hesper vends respite
      since Eastward
   unfolds Fillmore

"You’re going to want to remember this conversation in about 3 to 4 years."

"What defines such figures is not merely the evil they commit, but the mass of ordinary people who enable them, the bureaucrats, the voters, the neighbors, the media figures—those who look at cruelty and decide it is 'necessary,' who look at lies and call them 'strategy,' who look at moral collapse and label it patriotism'." —Michael Klein via

Herzog's best film & probably the best movie of the 90s.

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Wichita Lineman.

"My rosary is broken
my beads have all slipped through"

—B Taupin

"Beautiful Losers was written outside, on a table set among the rocks, weeds and daisies, behind my house on Hydra, an island in the Aegean Sea. I lived there many years ago. It was a blazing hot summer. I never covered my head. What you have in your hands is more of a sunstroke than a book."

urn ragged indigo
ink-begrudged effigy

longer pig pentagram
pawned above-universe

unhoused green happiness
harg duly cerulean

sparse my veer venturesome
invites brick characters

God is Alive (lineated as poetry).

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"Almost all the other participants in the project, realizing the limited time and resources of the camera, made very simple films...but Lynch packs his film, 'Premontions Following An Evil Deed,' full of action (there’s even an alien abduction or something)."

"It turned out to be far more sinister than just boring, as corporate entertainment sells bad values about humans being expendable and worth destroying when compared to the risk of losing social status or influence with funders." --Sarah Schulman via

Haiku.

"Upper Sandusky"

crackhead raccoon running
around fluted concrete
capybara bippie
in the iceberg gurgling
coffee sits symphony
unseen by bling fingers
the city's haint hooting
hollowly drab ballroom
caught in the artweb
a cold smiting smoulders
whatever it was easing
our illness went stillborn
crackhead raccoon running
around concrete border

Liberty Leading the People.