Time and Arrokoth

Just after midnight, 2019, a metal object with roughly the size and proportions of a grand piano drifted by two enormous rocks fused together in space. It would take months for the images gathered by the satellite dish of the New Horizons probe to reach earth, four billion miles away...

at the mouth of the tomb

fatigue ismy raincoat   it’s beena wet spring    sending aflood of synthetic dancers    politicians andhereticsraining down   shoddycounterfeitcoins pour fromhell’s own slot machine intothe lap of the worldthis is anear miss comedy    a picnicof nothingbut yesterday’s cold coffeeand raw injusticeall bridgesburnt   windows nailed shut    strings pulled tightour one briefopportunity squanderedin petty squabbles when hunters      the dark... Continue Reading →

Bent

I love Miss Hooker plenty and want tomarry her when I’m old enough, I’m tooyoung now, 10 to her 25 but some-day I’ll be the right age even though she’llbe older too, and by the same numberof years but I won’t mind, love’s got it allover numbers, at least that’s what I prayevery night, and... Continue Reading →

The River

And there we stoodlooking out in silenceat the great rivertoo wide to swim acrossthough some might have triedand drowned too young.And our teacher stepped inallowing her skirt to riseto her hips like a cloudwith her inside, andlifting her arms she beckonedone by one to her sidewhere she blessed aloudour baptism, not to God,but to the... Continue Reading →

The Theory of Non-Relativity

The massless particlewhich passes through vacuumwithout encountering any resistance at all,does not differ from the onethat does not pass at allLoneliness is self-sufficient,as they say and,etc…You’re the last dark matterfrom another outgoing nightbut why don’t you come with me, whydon’t you come in meto see that there’s nothingharder thanforgivenessthere’s nothingharderI will fall asleep now just... Continue Reading →

Interstitial

They passed a law over a decade ago in our state permitting us to marry, but we never did. To my Liza, marriage, organized religion and hypocrisy are human institutions to be abhorred. I was buttoning my shirt this morning, contemplating the peculiar technology of the button and wondering at its history, how it evolved... Continue Reading →

The Chinwagger’s Complaint

These fopdoodles don’t know diddly-squat.Their cattywampus minds can’t distinguishdipthongs from dongles, doohickeys from fartleks.They confuse the mythical with the actual,mistaking the Washington snallygasterfor snollygosters sitting on their fence.A two-letter switch defines their ignorance.On weekends you’ll find them at shivooswhere they’ll divagate about the demiseof jackalopes and kerfuffle aboutgobbledegook. Where one word would do,they add hundreds... Continue Reading →

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