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istsfor manity (J.I. Alvarez)
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istsformanity.bsky.social
with the privilege of inquisitors

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republic listing rudderless
thee stillbirthed republic hit me on thee setteeleave your fingermarks & hotwelts rising on my twisted back be my grand inquisitor imperiousin ermine & red velveteenyour incandescence / the…
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October 2, 2026 at 9:34 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
We die with each simple fade to black.

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wounded and relegated
Kankakee, October 1, 2016 Then there was Kankakee—that year of enervating visions—and the posse of teenage courtiers whose dizzying luck was doomed by a pair of “ragged claws.” Fragile, as the woun…
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October 1, 2026 at 5:24 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
literature is overrrated; read only pulp

eghm627.com/2026/09/30/r...
read only pulp
Distortion Poetics (redux) Distortion principle no. 1: avoid distortion. Distortion principle no. 2: defenestrate (often). Distortion principle no. 3: degauss after every visit to either of the pol…
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September 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
this will be something of a cure

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ad hoc exorcism
this will be this will be a backwards maskthis will be self-abasingthis will be scrofulous and un-dexterous so this will be loutishthis will be pettythis will be unpleasant i am feeling unpleasant …
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September 29, 2026 at 9:47 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
This country makes you weep

eghm627.com/2026/09/28/i...
in this (my) neighborhood pt. 148
What I’m Reading: This country makes you weepHalf our forests, rivers and mountains ruinedThis country makes you angryHowling wolves, wild horses hunted downThis country dishonors life and praisesD…
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September 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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how terrible the psychedelic colors at sunset

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out of tears
Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The Artificial State honored no boundaries and conferred no rights. Its emergence was inseparable from the deepening connections of transportation, communication, a…
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September 27, 2026 at 9:08 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
It has something to do with the wiring in her head.

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the vacation photos
Pocket o’ Blues (redux) Maria says posthaste when she means post-punk.  It has something to do with the wiring in her head.   I have a box full of letters, and she has a box ful…
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September 26, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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I feel a heave of something like nausea.

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 147
What I’m Reading: The whole world can be divided into those who write and those who do not write, wrote Kierkegaard. Not that I’ve been reading Kierkegaard. I found these words copied down in…
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September 25, 2026 at 10:34 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
The wolf ponders the caribou

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plateau of cirrus
Nothing Truly Connects We’re above an endless plateau of cirrus. Look at that wisp of crescent moon nailed to this impossibly saturated blue sky. The moon out at noon. Proof, and more proof, that I…
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September 24, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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forget the clock canting facewise facefirst

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sure feels late
falling rocks / times up falling rocks / times up / first fall tang on the tongue / our fingers vaseline stained / cant forget the clock canting facewise facefirst / damocles like / on a wretched a…
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September 23, 2026 at 10:20 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
Time to eat, to think of it all.

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 146
What I’m Reading: Steady, the evening fadesup the street into sunsetover the lake. Winter sits quiet here, snow piledby the road, the walks stampeddown or shoveled. The kids in the time before dinn…
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September 22, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Assonance was a mildly strong point. And dissonance was his power alley.

eghm627.com/2026/09/21/g...
glacier melt that
Blockhead Relevance was not his strong suit. Assonance was a mildly strong point. And dissonance was his power alley. So he detuned his lyre and randomly plucked strings. He tuned his dulcimer to F…
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September 21, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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When I figure out where I’m goin’ it’ll be too late to change

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milk and dough
Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Three things: I’ve never been toa funeral, a man is his ownprophet in the morning, a door floats above an endless horizon.But I have walked through hospice ha…
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September 20, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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ill find a tendinitis sweetheart who spits monosyllabic love-tee-dums in basque

eghm627.com/2026/09/19/l...
like gnashing teeth
im a dream creep (redux) im a dream creep having bug dinner / making errant presentations in the round / converting pathological crab kids in love to arthritic husks / i tease a sickle / a cudgel /…
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September 19, 2026 at 10:24 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
he wants me to live the limpid life of the unsullied brain. Lamb-shackled. 

eghm627.com/2026/09/18/t...
the cathode nimbus
Epistemic Valve-u-later Insouciant pill pusher — writer of scrips intended to send me to oblivion, to live thee life of the lotus eaters. Dr. Closer — shutter of the epistemic valve — he wants me t…
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September 18, 2026 at 9:39 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
Like planets in a rhumba line bound
For the event horizon

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rhumba line bound
Because the llama faltered The alpaca tycoon • modulus repairedTakes onto the hills • savage in sharpnessCritical focal acuity deglazed • warpingOn shadows like soft monsters unloosedIn the monochr…
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September 17, 2026 at 4:39 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
short on doorways and long on crashes

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stretches of boredom
Alcoholics by Appointment Tectonic plates nimbly moving between the two of us — threads separated by upsetting intertitles.  I understood wanting — the fist unfoldings like investigating what …
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September 16, 2026 at 4:15 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
I pique in wolf-like rages
Deep into the night.

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trodden by legions
What are Fish Gills to Fishers of Men? At a remove, in a gesture, a part of a thingRepresenting the whole.What are ambivalences of texts?Polyvalencies in readings?What flows from this desireTo mace…
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September 15, 2026 at 8:54 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
a fishy kind of happy life?

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a fishy kind
image: Jewgienij Bal, free use under the GNU Free Documentation License determinism2 (squared) the lifetime of a spratespecially a gourmet spratin the baltic waters off latviawhat to say?short? spr…
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September 14, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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It turns out you can kill the earth

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without even thinking
Memorable Stuff I Read This Week It turns out you can kill the earth,
Crack it open like an egg.
It turns out you can murder the sea,
Poison your own children
Without even thinking about it. — Mich…
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September 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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We’re on the countdown clock to post-post oblivion

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all wetness faraway
Asperity & Impermancence Excited sheep burning at the horizon line. We lord over the flame thrower, and we’re looking forward to seeing you! All wetness faraway.  A fine life lies ahead of…
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September 12, 2026 at 4:19 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
All portent from here.

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never knowing regret
A Savage Republic A negative feedback loop. Petroglyphs and door flips. Petrichor — a savage feedback loop — a savage republic. Put out the fire. Frying in its own fat. Permafrost melting. The warm…
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September 11, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Then I’d come to my senses, my thumbs getting tired from poking at the gorilla glass (TradeMarked)

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something like this
WriteRightRite If you insist I write at least 100 words everyday in this space, then, here goes: if I started at one hundred and started to count down until I had written another 99 words in this s…
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September 10, 2026 at 9:23 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
allow your head to be rearranged

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felons of euphoria
boyfriend ogres the moorlands… southerners and vitamins felt on the drumstickartful showers / groovy serializations / trippy visual sexesinnovative campground muckrakersshopper-bug cup finches / im…
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September 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
istsformanity.bsky.social
im lost in the notion

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last rectangular words
octagonal agonals im lost in the notionof the circular motionof your last rectangularwords What I’m Reading: Leave your coffins open.The word for wind is, in another language, the word for soul. — …
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September 8, 2026 at 9:46 AM