Blood Capital an artful hawker collects souls on a street cornersave me from the daya clumsy galumphin’ thing comes dancing bytrampling the sitters, upending the babesa monster on the rampage in white lacean orchid in a window silences yousome people go hawking war souvenirs From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such […]
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Ghost Operators
Ghost Operators it rankles suburbia to know these things:no one drifts into the silence of dreamssome people go their whole lives withouta battle axe is not a paper fan,though, at times, the inverse –and then, sometimes,a hotchpotch of entities hexie-hops from out the picture frame From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms […]
In the Alterations
In the Alterations In all the days of itWe worked and we toiledWe of the silting up of the worksIn the alterationsIn the alterations of we all the small onesIn the alterations of we all the small ones we wokeIn the alterations of time we sought a chance. In the alterations of time we sought […]
A Time to Devour All the Pills (Sonnet)
A Time to Devour All the Pills (Sonnet) Clearly nobody on all 3 platforms wants to read something called Sonnet, so this is getting renamed to “A Time to Devour All the Pills (Sonnet)” Time to go and time to trustTime to wean and time to lustA time to love and a time to killA […]
“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States
“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States The winner of the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary is streaming free on PBS and YouTube in the United States. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/ :::::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo Be warned there is a lot of extremely graphic and disturbing stuff here. Explosions, injured people, corpses, people in surgery, tears, […]
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’ […]
GoFundMe: Buy 1,000 Postcard Stamps and Defeat Fascism!
The AI is not wrong: The author is seeking financial aid for an activism project aimed at ensuring Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, among other goals. They have purchased postcards but need assistance to fast-track the acquisition of stamps, which is currently requiring significant financial restraint. The project’s detailed explanation can be found via a provided GoFundMe link. Some images to be included on the postcards cannot fully extend to the edges due to potential printing issues. The author posted this in the early hours of the morning, emphasizing the urgency of their request.
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We wake in the morning, or at noon, or the witching hour, rising, sick, or sleepy, or hurried. We make our preparations and take our medications, black coffee, nicotine, whiskey rocks, what have you, running and walking dogs, herding children and scooping after cats. There is no tomorrow, only this synthetic ‘morning’, whatever hour it […]
entwine well moon (v4)
disassemble your partswhat are you in there?The Jenga tower of nervy pieceschain reaction machineThe phonemes bind togetherwith fitful flowing notionsas keening winds of chatterWith no more time permitted -unscrew the hunger- and get No answer-just the ringing empty- ascending skyward, vinesentwining ‘round the moonagainst the cold of nothingShining, gazing downhurling unsought solaceThere is no promise […]
ChatGPT and DALL-E AIs respond to my 2016 poem, “Self-Concept Commutative Telegrams” in words and pictures
I had the ChatGPT AI from OpenAI, which has been all in the news lately, respond to one of my more popular poems, “Self-Concept Commutative Telegrams”, and later had the DALL-E 2, also from Open AI respond pictorially. Below are some of the results.
Lost in Mist 