Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

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

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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Wagging Doggerel

Strength is weakness when abused Innocence is guilt accused Benign neglect is choice refused Certainty is doubt confused Before you get yourself enthused Remember, rhymes leave us bemused — W B Kek

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Plastic Rap

Sequestration Perpetrates Devaluation Enervates Our education Penetrates Our dying nation Like a knife. Regulation Mitigates Exploitation Promulgates Equalization Watergates Equivocation Relegates Prevarication Promotes life. /// /// ///

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