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Category: Complexity/Emergence
Night Notes
“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]
Staircase
Original publication date 11/21/2015. It’s quite brilliant and I don’t remember writing it at all, but it escaped my 2020 purge and someone looked it up today and I reread it and said yes. The streaking of the red dogs. The wild dogs, the feral dogs. The chanting of the mice. The lift into the […]
3 More Sample Readings Using The Key of Sparrows
Full key: https://tkos.dev The symbols were selected using random.org which uses ‘atmospheric noise’ (I think electromagnetic noise) to generate true random numbers. The system was designed such that you can use three coin flips to generate a binary number to select the column and roll a dice for the row.
Some sample The Key of Sparrows readings from postcards
One of 6 readings: Might suggest (if accurate) the recipient getting a housemate or moving in with a partner: “Ordering thoughts. Rethinking, reorganizing your mind. The order in which things are done is important here. The meeting of two minds. Two people. Two mindsets. Coming together as a household. Don’t we all contain multitudes?”
Copies 20 Bucks a Pop
A rare post by me with a lot of rhyming – Not based on real events – Original post date 12/2/2016
“All that which we cannot see, /
Opens paths to mystery /
Inner feeling ever shifts /
What before & what betwixt? / […]”
Disinformation Paradox Activities
Disinformation Paradox Activities Uncountable flocks of little pixiesFlying all around these tangled topologiesSolving little problemsHaving little talksSetting little trapsPinning up the posts & cute hairLets get our sight right and get goingNo sudden moves & always drive safelySpinning spider silk along & through the many layers of window panesFiring fast and furiousLet us dive, now, […]
Remember These Things
Remember These Things The tangled flow of livesIn your workings, remember three things:One, never look down on mushroomsTwo, do not insult your customersThree, bring your lives to fruitionIn your direct actions, remember these four:The situation is not normalThe collected dreams of the people are at a place of powerRefrain from rudenessChant loudly, raucously, and bawdilyIn […]
The Set of Modernistic Identities
The Set of Modernistic Identities — Flash creative nonfiction and/or prose poem We get up and have coffee. We shower or not. Have that run or not. Turn on the TV or radio or other background noise. We drive to work or school or the grocery. We say ‘hi how are you’ and ‘im good’ […]
Transient Formation of Flock of Multiconsciousness’ Islets
AI Summary is Nice: The text ambiguously gives an account of a group referred to as ‘We the People’ interacting with each other and the world around them. It suggests they are interconnected and interdisciplinary beings who navigate complex conceptual and physical landscapes while formulating theories and manipulating time. The narrative is abstract, fragmented, and filled with symbolic and philosophical expressions.
Lost in Mist 