A poem (?) I did at a writers’ group based on this prompt. Charley said he’d like to have it for the archives (which don’t yet exist) so I’m typing it up emailing him and blogging it. The book of prompts is called “Finger Exercises for Poets” by Dorianne Laux.
Good Movie: The Big Short
It’s free to watch. About the people who predicted the 2007-08 subprime mortgage lending financial crisis. [I don’t know why it’s age restricted; all the curses are silenced] One of the people in the movie who predicted the subprime crisis in 2007-08 is now betting against NVIDIA and Palantir https://lostinmist.blog/2025/12/05/good-movie-the-big-short/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvdjXCCHdSQ Wikipedia: “In late 2025, Burry […]
Deceptacon Song – Postcard Poems – Non-Representational Poetry
Body 1: Intricately depicted as a bejeweled mosaic of sparkling light sources, ready made to party & unbroken by fears of fascism, consciousness parsed the multiple streams of words flowing past her slightly fragmented & dissociated mentality, reconciling each way, going through centering filing past, the music & words turning & braiding together while the […]
New Book Title: Poll (vote in the comments)
What should I call the book I’m working on? “We Demand New Order”, “We the People [citation needed]“, something else with ‘We’ in it, or something we thing else entirely?
Atemporal Pisky Topologies, Simple – Non-Representational Poetry
Reposting this because I wanted to make a page for it in Evergreen Posts and because I thought the picture it was with was sub-par. “On top of the questions, seeing what fresh hell was upon them, they noticed that what had been one was many, and what had been uncut was now hashed….”
Hexylmathemagica Chaos Koans – 4/29/2017 – Non-representational poetry
[…] the tricksiest of the Pixies came alive in the ferment & brought the lightning. […] Puzzle piece insanity is, in fact, something anyone can develop. It takes only some conditions, or some habits, or some different blend of beans. […]
Your Dishonor – Postcard Microfiction
My first real postcard poem in a while. I guess I’ve grown a bit bored with the precomposed printed text blocks so I’ll be doing these again. But it’s election season and I’ve got stuff to advertise so I won’t be entirely giving up on the precomposed text blocks.
Latest iteration on my business card + Excerpted poem “We”
[…] Punch in, punch out; as the weary depart; you are alert on the headset; she is shifting packages among conveyors, up, down, across slides the latte. Clinkety clink go the coins and rustle of crumpled ones, out of pockets and into tip jars. Brake, stop, go, the drive thru, the sausage biscuits. The scrubs and IVs and X-Rays […]
Strengthening Baltic Defense: A Unified Approach Against Aggression
Given the news of the day (Several Russian attack drones shot down after flying into Polish airspace) and the general expectation that Russia+Belarus will at some point attack the Baltic states, would it make sense for Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to have a sub-NATO, cross-border, joint defense structure and posture?
Lost in Mist 