C: Death of Consumption
It seems to be true that the world is in debt. If I take from you then I won’t see it yet. By nature we crave to spend more than we earn; we’ve money to save and we’ve forests to burn. We’ll use up the...
View ArticleTen of Spades: The Fungus Who Ruled the World
I am the master of my environment. The king of the fifth kingdom. My sweet chestnut tree delivers all the nutrients I need. I have no need for even a brain to live in this paradise on a lesser...
View ArticleAce of Clubs: The Island
She skipped from stone to stone across the stream, each stepping stone subsiding with her stride. No tears for trampled islands, she was on the other side. In comfort, and in loneliness, she mused...
View ArticleEight of Diamonds: The Village of Silver
Although many stories end up coming full circle, the first step is always finding a few good lines to lead into it. The steps are too steep for me to climb, I will wait and watch. All the best pictures...
View ArticleNine of Spades: Perspective
Which way do you see things first? (Click the poems for pdf versions you can enlarge and copy the text from.) This nine of spades from a deck of optical illusions cards that my nemesis sent me. I like...
View ArticleThree of Diamonds: The Family Tradition
Your father, his father, and his before that, Your mother, her mother, and all the way back Have kept a tradition by chance or by will To each have a baby (or several) until The flame’s passed to you,...
View ArticleTwo of Clubs: The Last Generation
Mildred Feldnether was on her way to take birth for the twenty-eighth time when she found the creature. She heard it first; a call that didn’t belong to any animal she’d heard in the forest before....
View ArticleHotel Bacon (Michelle Branch parody)
This is to be sung to the tune of Hotel Paper by Michelle Branch. I like mostly just hotel bacon. Knowing the leftovers would never be consumed. Raised, erased, their flesh is too tasty to leave here....
View ArticleA Towel Day quotation creation
May 25th is International Towel Day, in honour of Douglas Adams. The following contains 42 –ation rhymes, 41 of which are found in Adams’ book ‘Last Chance to See…‘: Earth’s vegetation made slow...
View ArticleCetacean Needed
Last Towel Day, I posted a poem I had written using 42 -ation rhymes which an app I wrote found in Douglas Adams’ book ‘Last Chance to See‘. Later that day, Joey Marianer posted a video of himself...
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