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of birds. The world is full of snakes. The world isfull of mushrooms. The world is full of flies. The worldis full of bombs. Not so many trees. Not as many as you might think. The world is full of flowers. Notso many bees. The world is full of rocks. Some…

—and the god presiding over all / a four-faced, double-Janused clock / its equal seconds clickt away / ticking us our steps and breaths . . .

To understand how and when things have gone wrong, it works best to proceed from the beginning and put them in order.

The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…

The two boys walked the long dock to the edge of bay,like scrappy lobsters pointing toward the waves,"The cockroaches of the sea,"his father said,It was the old country"Only prisoners were fed lobster.They stayed in the dampholes."He thought the sea ebbed and flowed like a…

I covered my hair and shoulders so as not to astonish God

I do not want to know what it looks like when a society walks off a cliff's edge,

How ironic...the economy's collapse coming forty days and forty nights after the Internet crashed.

The middle finger talks of many things How I killed the moon But still drank the moonshine And how getting over her took Some bleeding from the soul Maybe it’s the Inner Face of Outer Space That worries me the most But what about the Fro

“Will you be requiring all Americans to wear masks, sir?” someone asked. “Mask, flask,” stormed the Captain. Then was heard a terrific, loud, animal sob like that of a heart-stricken moose. It was the Attorney General, hot as Satan’s hoof.

Everybody's a mad scientist

I'd rather slit my wrists with a Triscuit...

I asked the hospice nurse about maggots.

To say what is my self to myself? How does one even begin? Then to think that one could take those disparate elements, experiences, beliefs, and aspirations and convey them to another succinctly: it is like my students writing their 5-paragraph essays on the history of…

They won’t let me make a fire in the fireplace

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