Tag: poem
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Comp(NE)
HeWas alone at the table, reaching for caffeine pills.HeSpilled salt and pepper for the company,Counted the scattered grainsNaming place and timeAsA hobby. A median strip divided the parking lotAnd arrows accomplished the divides purpose.Trees grew out from the median’sShallow soil,Placed there with the intentionTo offset the aesthetics of cracked blacktop,Hosting tar snakes, curling in envy…
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A (cog) nitive in the Disease
Cognitive research categorizes detergent scents that clean collars promising white like bleach stains. Postmodern dilemmas metastasize the Pepsi challenge onto the dialectical mapping of consumer forethought. What is the relevance of empty cans to possible outcomes?Teenagers wait in line for free samples, toe tapping in sequence with Muzak playing through loudspeakers posted to the Mall’s…
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franchises.
Franchise growth splices conformity with judgment set in patterns, civil agreements like consumer surveys in exchange for coin, or taxes for safety, or bread for toast.Leather chairs fixed in cross stitch, humble the dignitaries spine by bending a supposed lean back affirmation, fingers intertwined and placed in their lap, suggesting sinister knowledge and bone density…
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Clown Art Surplus
Ink smears interact with pencil shavings, displacing language for luxury-brands.An art print Framed an inch under the ceiling, inspired by a skyscraper vantage, watching cars displace one another, a chess-piece-value determined from movement.Western is the direction.Drive-thru menus the required knowledge.King forward two squares, wrapper underneath the seat and the rook falls. Restless inhales inspire the…
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No Brow
Throat swells Determine purple Revelations. An excuse for tolerance,Regained as fable begins with tomorrow as catalyst. Globs of ketchup fill the paint by numbers patternConducive to manufactured sustenance. Cabinets glutted with paper plates forego origami minutesAnd last forever in trash seconds. City lights reflect on corporate glassSwell up in water coolers, remain there Like rusted…
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letter-box-noise
Violin thoughts delay Episodic Conjunction, abridged per bone style With rioters halted before a chainlink fence, Their fingers interlocked around the tension bar, Strumming metal for comfort. A fish escapes the depths, Bulges hindsight to qualify the lens Meant as their prison bowl. Death chances its allegory With every drug overdose Discovered in the stall…
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basic agency
1. A puddle of blood Accumulated underneath The dog’s brain and Staged Descartes’ reflection In the liquid. His dissection was an attempt To ratify his hypothesis That consciousness originates in every creature’s Pineal gland. Blood droplets descended off his table, Motioned ripples throughout the puddle, Crested along the lip of the metal tray and dried…
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Consumer Biases in the Cold
Tinnitus mystified by traffic noise, loops blood stasis and develops silence. The sequenced beeps of the crosswalk intrude a brief hypnosis, interrupted by A man situated at the bus-stop who breathes with assistance from an oxygen tank. Tubes encircle his ears and plug his nostrils, he questions, “spare a dollar for a homeless guy today?” …
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g()d hEaD but with A Fr()wn
Water droplets leak from the god-head And reimagine the tempo of tears as ice melting off an old roof. A puddle amasses From the clogged drain. A fleck of lint seeks refuge in the tubs Hinterlands. Another water bead descends, Strikes the growing deep and jettisons Spillage, forcing it airborne. Moisture touches The lint and …
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FTX and the TOO BIG TO FAIL Motif
“I am the false character that follows the name around.” D. DeLillo Chemtrails splice the clouds in two and dare onlookers to pick a side. Its white pinstripe decorates the divide, dissipates and showers conspiracies onto a small town graveyard. Relatives from the area visit the dead and talk to them about the places in…
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