Tag: prose
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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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Choose to Win
A duck died, his body floated throughout the pond-water and on occasion collided with shoreline, but always returned back to drifting. When winter turned the water to ice, he was frozen from the neck down. At night, approaching headlights struck his dead eyes and they lit up like stars. During sunny days, his profile functioned…
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Pantomime’s Meditation
Pill bottle placed before Biblical notations, Cover agape, straddled the shelf for squints To fish-eye, pilfer and register artifacts of verse, which Insisted the tambourine player remove her instrument, “assemble the tempo Rattlesnakes attribute To approaching danger.” Door lock clicked, Pantomime leaned against the frame and lathered his deadbolt In oil. He became fixated on…
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Showcases of Color with Respect to Advertisement
An explosion, origins unverified, erupted from the pond. Clumps of algae broke apart from each other and followed the current, collided with sunfish and bluegill carcasses floating belly up, reflecting full color spectrum off their scales, to combat the black of their dead eyes. Sitcom streamed through Hulu paused on a commercial break, Tide Pods…
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Naming the Many
If naming the source solidified authenticity then it would be so, but anyone stepping out of their vehicle, loose leaf receipt stuck to the heel of their shoe, could’ve done it, continued walking, impervious to the receipts removal, as it anchored for a split second before being carried off by natural winds. From there it…
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Purchasing Enlightenment with Pennies
Class structure, obliging coinage, asses the 99% as faux-copper presentation, while Washington’s silver eyes reflect light and expose the dark recesses of human containment (addressing the bottom of a purse, underneath couch cushions, (or the classic) fell out of the wallet into the borrower’s back pocket). If faces mounted on metal plates are homage to…
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Dante’s Guided Inferno Tours. ONLY $10.99!!!
Dante shot an echo, detailed a composition of natural noise to compare against the cold air and sulfur stench, perfuming his surroundings. But without a standard from which to build experienced recognition his brain abandoned memories and in its place deciphered from what he’d read off the internet to mesh the details and give the…
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Enlightenment Doesn’t Come Cheap. You Have to Sell Your Soul
Enlightenment personifies hallucinations and after acclaim solidifies the Guru’s presentation as a label to be duplicated. Outset of empathy, inserts voyeuristic tendencies like watching the opening credits of a sitcom and each character poses mid-action, breaks the fourth-wall and flashes their pearly whites directly at the audience. Pupils widen, optic nerves communicate to synaptic triggers,…
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b.l.e.a.c.h.
Symptoms of skull bleaching are conflicted when back-dropped against snow, acid-washed-denim, tooth-caps, generic paper towels and the pinch of light leaning through a door cracked open separating the well lit dining room and the windowless position of cellars, as above, so below. But the handcuff glints and holds its glare in the computer screen (cleaned…
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