Friday, May 30, 2025

powers




moon enters my house

uninvited unannounced

yet i need its powers




by Tom

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Large monuments, people on drugs


large monuments
people on drugs
laughing and drinking 
at work
cries are dim
cries from within
are dim
the same needy creatures 
need as much
want as much
as before
looting
degradation
of monuments
miracles 
are withheld
looted 
down to the foundations
we have applications
disconfidence
plentitude
panic
a monk
who might have immolated
walks instead 
on a plane
a spy
a gang
looting from within
cries are contained
laughter
derision
intoxication
natural death
some creatures thrive
others fertilize
the firmament
the core
the reason
the ancestors
all looted



by Missy
Creative Thesis Option, p. 6

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

what


I looked toward the heavens and asked what

I looked inside at my conscience and asked what

Aloud, I asked the room, which was empty, what




La Chama-la
Fragment: Days of Destruction Address


Friday, May 23, 2025

Strings with knots




like a puppet's hands if the strings had knots

to open up is can't, not to not want

these unwelcome growths mark time and effort


thus stories have been told by peoples not

wanting to forget but in recording find

that media as memory is more vulnerable 


than a memory that has built its capillary 

knots cranial cathedrals dying kings

there are the last knots ending in fringe


there are hair knots ironically created

when attempting to impose order on

the sort of chaos that guarantees a knot


you can roll a knot on the tip of your

finger with some spit, a knot that can

hold the entire construction in place




by Missy
Table IV: Free Verse
MPS Gifted Fair
Days of Destruction




Wednesday, May 21, 2025

 









Thursday, May 8, 2025

Own-brain dialogics


I was waiting in the garden for Mkidza Mlaf, mistress of the dance, and I happened to notice a fleke walking his hybrid in from another neighborhood, a mini-K male like the ones I've been seeing off leash in Jansdaad Park lately. Well, I decided, it won't be for long. That K is gonna end up in a shelter on a kill list and that fleke is going to be in prison prolly before that. 

Then of course I had to take myself aback, listen to what I was saying with a critical ear. And doing this, I felt ashamed.

Then I started plotting out how to call the MPS on the flekes while they are still there, in Jansdaad Park, with their K's off leash, without them being able to guess that it was me who called. 

Then I began to wonder how long it's been since a Jan was ever even present at Jan Jansdaad Park, maybe not even since the ground breaking way back before The Crack got opened. For years it's just been gypsies and now that the gypsies have been driven out or terrified to go outside, the flekes are filling the vacuum. 

The Ks have even more right historically to be free on this surface. Letting them off leash is a symbolic act aimed at the rest of us and probably lost entirely on the pathetic "reimagining" of the former kings of the planet. They glop around on rubbery feet, and their once mighty wings are token bone and skin flaps that only create eruptions in the sweat glands beneath them. Mini-K males feel permanently ready for a fight, but they don't know why. Of course their teeth can still tear flesh, and their tongues can pin down a varmint even if it appears a spear's length behind them.

I've ended up taking no action at all. I'm glad I've discovered the power of own-brain dialogics. 



by Tom

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

sunhole P97b


when they bring me out among the trees

my instincts bubble over and I'll scream

at the critters who live in the hollow knobs




by Lager

Monday, May 5, 2025

Physician's Notes: Metacognineuralpsychescantissueread


Missy: Cascading pubescent female, multi-special 

Suspected but never before recorded: 

Patient's brain attempting to halt processes of other parts of same own brain

Bio-dialogic processes using symbols and sounds of host's own language that actively change cell production, synapse strength and number, direction and intensity of cerebral blood flow

Who is taking the various sides of these arguments, and how do they win or lose? Do they attempt to come to a consensus/ compromise, or is brute force a deciding factor?

Example language within and between brain parts detected and decoded: 

stop...stop or i won't stop singing...you were tripping...look around



Physician's Notes
Metacognineuralpsychescantissueread
MPS
Dr. Donna Thong, Licenciature Pending