53. the next wolverine

Mandombe script.

the radio stops working
i stop reading my mail
before being blown up
a private whisper recorded
not for posterity
dress socks with a hole in the toe
crisp brown wrapping
when the white flame within us
is gone

opals that look like opals

"Thus, in the other hoaxes of this era, the inhabitants of planet "Auco", according to what Saliano told the very same Sesma, came from Alpha centauri at 4.4 light-years, and the "Bââvites" who wrote "Bââvites letters" to Robert Charroux came from Proxima Centauri within 4.2 ligh-years [sic]."