centibillionaire club (day 164)

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Vaihinger.

"my autumn is just this
a woman sits alone
armadillo"

--@poem_exe

Jakobson.

1.
slow poisoning · the livelong day
jimplecute obit · black milkshake
of plague stork flight · morning coolness
slow fizzle · finalize timesheet

2.
mask breath
nine named storms
the wrong vaccine

the dead plant we keep
a Google Street View leap

of plague stork flight
TARCI PULCE
on Vulture Peak

mask breath
nine named storms

toluol odyssey
losing my keys
on Vulture Peak

on Dead Horse Point
hadu zalas

la polvo
di steli
Cor Caroli

the dead plant we keep
nine named storms

3.
munch my breakfast KARST
in a strange domain ALONE
mouth frothing ROYAL

the trail of a SNAIL
hierodules on the TELLY

4.
hellmouth by the pool
having migrated over
the weathered planking
ghorbat widdershins lost count
of the laps at your peril

5.
stark HEIST
ahead, ABELE
in clusters--just RELAX--
around us as the teasing rays SLANT
of TEXTS

6.
surge SPLAT
stray rice cake PIECE
this afternoon's LEVER
in the rain a draw with ACERS
still TERSE

7.
blue sky
upholding all
more silver than angel
how can i lodge among figments
wind horse

8.
When i upon so many rocks am dashed
this catnip ace of celadon
& crispy world of bloating Mira
falls into a slough of its own coinage.

Ampollosity where wit were needed,
blue sky over a Gothic curse:
who could imagine words anele
the wounds of shieldless aeons' onslaught lunar?

Virus-whispered qibla
carried on the wings of silent breath,
alphabet invented by a grebe
& good for riddles only.

Madder Isle.

"It troubled the mind with a slow, insidious horror, it assailed the senses with an emanating stupor, an effluence as of primal worlds before the creation of light, where life might teem and raven slothfully in the blind ooze." --@KlarkashT

(@BoschBot)

cat & dove (day 89)

(via @abandonedameric)

"The task is not to hope that some kind of divine grace turns a one-time stimulus check into socialism, but to act toward that transformation."

"In the orchard of the bones." --Finnegans Wake

Providence Express.

rash HARPS
spar with AGILE
rodents · pluck each RIVET
that holds our grimaces at PLEAT
deep SETTS

"In that sense, engineers are a lot like poets: You acquire the tropes and techniques of your literary or engineering tradition, and then you innovate and combine them into new poems or machines."

"now we are leaving
sweet clover
leading to nowhere"

--@poem_exe

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scythian lamb (day 77)

(@CrookedCosmos)

Horror surf.

"the countdown
in the leftover snow
celestial music"

--@poem_exe

Comfort zone.

1.
OPERA
slung on PAPER

discharge for the EPOPT

of the dire--most--vulture REPOS
--ARTSY

2.
DEVOS
hawked fremd EPOPT
spurns vast at the VOLTA
double star by lineup OPTIC
band STACK

3.
MESAS
pick their EPOPT
downpipe tumble SOOTY
to hit though reward were APTER
STYRO

Through the jaws of death.

"Whose name is as a silver shawm blown loud" --Nimrod

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executive function

(jack coggins via via retro rockets on fb)

Venice by night.

"the puppy that knows not
summer cicadas"

--@poem_exe

Today's archaic animal.

sand DHOWS
frisky HELOT
the intricate OLIVE
write on by doves WOVEN
STENO

Deep-Speare.

"And with them rushed swart algebras, disturbed" --Nimrod, V.

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three views of the new pavilion

After the ice show.

derne PACTS
torture AURAL
to the scene of the CRIME
& the clouds that are not yet TAMED
draw SLEDS

In the hall of the mountain king.

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zapruder screenplay

What is poetry?

void YEAST
scavenge EAGER:
calaveras AGREE
yet through to here, Tomorrow SEEPS,
gold TRESS

"In bed that night, I asked Colin, in a whisper, whether his dad had believed the world would end with Y2K.

'No,' he said, 'It’s more recent than that.' Above us, his childhood bedroom ceiling glowed with the light of a hundred stick-on stars. 'It’s kind of an Obama re-election, they’re-gonna-take-our-guns, NRA-Fox News-apocalypse type thing.' "

(via @archillect)

the last gold rush

"qua fornace graves, qua non incude catenae?
maximus in vinclis ferri modus, ut timeas ne
vomer deficiat, ne marra et sarcula desint."

--Juv. Satire 3 (tr. Braund, 2004)

('Is there a furnace or anvil anywhere that isn't weighed down with the making of chains? Most of our iron is turned into fetters. You should be worried about a shortage of ploughshares and a dearth of mattocks and hoes.')

Alexander Ross over.

fourth PHASE
smug HYENA
under whose brisk AEGIS
this recension leaps from the SNIDE
EASEL

Cento thread.

(via @CrookedCosmos)

bat'leth

Rural purge of 1971.

brief FRACK
winner RODAN
song worthy of ADELE
as new icebergs hasten to CALVE
men KNEEL

The fall of Barrett Watten.

witch bottle

(via doctor-autobot)

"nec mihi mille iugis Campania pinguis aratur,
    nec bibit e gemma divite nostra sitis,
nec tamen inviso pectus mihi carpitur auro,
    nec mixta aera paro clade, Corinthe, tua."

--Goold's Propertius III.5 (1990)

('I own no rich soil of Campania ploughed by a thousand yoke of oxen, nor do I refresh my thirst from jewelled goblets: yet my heart is not seized by greed for hateful gold, nor collect I fused bronzes from your destruction, Corinth.')

The weirdness is coming.

ZAHIR
scent of ANISE
melting mists · vagrant HILLS
story made by kiteslipt ISLET
cloud RESTS

Third faction of the circus.

(pic by karl kempton on fb)

the three hamlet problem

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"The very fist of night hidden sun..." --miekal and

Snowden in the Labyrinth.

ACHAD,
angels of CRUME:
in this subfusc HUZUN
i thole sordor that would AMUSE
DENEB

Digital feudalism.

turkey pardon

(via)

Impeachment news roundup.

words SCALD
tippy CANOE
doubleplus seeks ANION
skull & mask exchange puzzled LOOKS
hood DENSE

"The only surviving word in our shared lexicon is ‘spidubat’."

(pic by michael puttonen on fb)

descartes and the decanate

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Go news.

word CAIRN
woke APNEA
crosswords among INCAS
to get the saucer gods REACT
NASTY

Enfolded Hamlet.

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once in barsoom

"Remember, friends: It’s not the poverty of your imagination. It’s the profundity of your indifference." --@NeinQuarterly

"It is not even really an argument at all. It is a hypnotic litany, a creed of faith—a faith all the more compelling for defying sense and experience."

dour JILTS
onion LAYERS
my own zilch IDAHO
churn dream after dream, no there THERE
just SORES

Who runs the Internet?

an undeveloped roll of film

(via doctor-autobot on tumblr)

File of Erica T Carter works.

low QUART
ticket UQBAR
the hidden stars ABOVE
most truthful when wildest he RAVES
gift TRESS

"Holidaying in countries still technically at war, however, is a relatively new phenomenon..."

(via vincentvanlove on tumblr)

solving the blog shortage

(from a hypothetical planet of 70 Ophiuchi, via)

Ophiuchans, it's time.

COHEN
or OKAPI
blithe in the sparse HAVOC
& denser noise that's this EPOCH
sans NICHE

"A great song can rally the people, but the next step is action."

"“Upon seeing Utah for the first time, Tarkovsky remarked that now he knew Americans were vulgar because they filmed westerns in a place that should only serve as backdrop to films about God.” --@fvrmvn via @LeeBillings

(pic by michelle rhea on fb)

smoke gets in your otchkies

"The language problem surrounding AI is analogous to one that haunted religion in the 19th century."

charge BARBS
fear AGORA
coffee with drag race ROSIN
bare by her bach'lors stripped the BRIDE
SANER

Earth's magnetic song. (via michael simms on fb)

(via @CrookedCosmos)

shadow palette

Life on Mars?

wud PLEBS
fields of LILAC
odd moments that ELATE
whether conductor, cop BATON
same SCENE

"Don’t you consider it just a tad strange that the media of the nation that -- no matter the president in these years -- continues to flood the world with weaponry of just about every imaginable sort, pays remarkably little attention to that fact?"

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abra cuterebra

(via spacecadetxo on tumblr)

"Where there should have simply been an equal distribution of goods and general dedication toward community satisfaction and safety, instead greed came in and took a hold of a few key players. And these key players who were cold enough to look past questions of whether or not what they were doing was humane were Men."

terse PACTS
little AVAIL
this feral priestly CASTE
vulture takes the indigo TITHE
of SLEEP

"How can I responsibly stand in front of my class, populated by students who are from all over the world and who come from a variety of religious practices, and teach material that is almost exclusively devoted to the rationality of belief in god?

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incentivized

("bodacious talent" by phumpuang via)

A very British protest.

sherbets
shut · excited
drops of heavy flickers
engravings cannot force paths through
sniffing

Twrch Trwyth.

oncologists' ball

(inside the shelter for detained child migrants, via craig smith on fb)

Jerry Lewis and Miss Cartilage.

stars blurred
into one streak
& hardly any fear
a few branches the wind tore down
on its way

"I search but cannot find the key/ Which will unlock the glowing door/ To the life which runs parallel/ To the world in which I am trapped."

"still it is sobering to realize that Nixon would still be POTUS--(in a manner of speaking)--if Fox News had existed at the time of Watergate." --@JoyceCarolOates