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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Hello, Angelina (Ellen Page, Jr.)
Forgot to get your website and would like to see your art. My email is Stews9@cox.net. Namaste.
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The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, A Review
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman William Morrow, 2013, 178pp hc, First Edition ISBN: 973 0 06 225565 5 $25.99 (a bargain at twice the price) A Review by Gene Stewart Our narrator at the start … Continue reading
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Tagged End, Ficta Mystica, Gaiman, Lane, magic, Memory, mystical realism, Neil, Ocean, pain, Protean, reality, regret, review
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Unheard Echo & Oblique Re-Entry
How to be free from Contingency When distant edge Is all I see? How to catch up to Family Who rush into Complacency? How to be seen, to Simply be? This ghost existence Murders me. Please notice me. /// /// … Continue reading
A Pine Knot’s Sparking Snap
I dipped my rose into your blood To stain it with our monthly love; Unfathomable scents entwined To render us our own intoxicants. Dispelling qualms, our skin aglow In ember light, its warmth suffused With whispers shared, our smiles In … Continue reading
Late Night Sneak
Hope: It’s eternal; An unwound watch spring. A weapon, a tool. A sucker’s bet A manipulator’s best friend. Watch out for hope; Let it in only provisionally. What you hope reveals your illusions. –W B Kek
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Tagged best friend, eternal, hope, illusion, Kek, poem, sucker's bet, tool, W B Kek, watch spring
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Ex Nihilo, Ad Nihilo
Take their pleasures as they find them Safe behind a numbered door Take their measures as they’re given Find their lovers on the floor Consequence restores renewal Contemplate aftereffect Make their statues where they conquer Waif will huddle in their … Continue reading
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Tagged aftereffect, compensate, consequences, dance of death, debuts, door, fake feelings, floor, lovers, measures, pleasures, profits, Psychopaths, statues
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Excerpt From a Work In Stasis
Damned kids So desperate to be big threats in their world of hostility and alienation. —welcome back, loser — He swayed, trembling inside, at a street corner. waiting for the light to let him cross. On a bumper sticker he … Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, Bierce, Jon, Lovecraft, Poe, rain, shadowy, tentacular
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A Tickle of Cavern Echoes
Our terrors purge our need to conjure demons, to draw threats, to find things we flee from so we can imagine a scorched respite snatched from the fire of simple survival. In this way dim light is cast, a glow … Continue reading
Drug Abuse Is What Laws Impose On Society; The War on Drugs is a Protection Racket
If you think making drugs illegal helps society then certainly alcohol, arguably the most addictive and demonstrably the most harmful, should be illegal. Ah, but the Volstead Act showed us that criminalizing and attempts to control lead only to crime, … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, brutality, clinics, control, criminals, dependence, drugs, gangsterism, Prohibition, Vostead Act
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Slower, Colder, Darker: Love in the Time of Entropy
The sky is in the water, The water is in the sky. Mountains are coming out of the water. They probe through the frost lines. The sun is shrunken and the wind expanded. We walk the reflections with our eyes … Continue reading