#2wordprompt: #distant / #wind #prompt #writing On the wind over the west sea came dust, as it did every spring, from a distant factory full of poison and the innards of a dollar store mixed with the dreams of Bactrian camels, dozing as they did amid dawn storms on the Gobi desert.

#vss365 - #misfit His life is conducted mostly in superposition: essentially probabilistic, making breakfast a minor miracle in the midst of an infinity of misfit futures that never materialize, spun off into the land where counterfactuals go while the observer sits overthinking the what ifs.

#vss365 - #dove Having come to an end of things, it was there in the isles of kings that I dived for pearls inside of me. But when I returned to sunset lands of the west, having done the best I could, my reflection was stove in — I simply dove for the pearls instead.

#vss365 - #affection Cat-like affection walks circles around your feet, leading you on. A false sense of security, then, demanding snacks; then, drawing blood; then, forgetting who you are two minutes later; then, invading your home, never to leave again.

#2wordprompt - #strange / #dangle #prompt #writing #poem Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fth-angle! …and with strange aeons, even death may dangle.

#LookAndSee 389 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky King Crimson - Book of Saturday youtu.be/lPutToA0ZHs

#LookAndSee 389 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Keith Jarrett - My Back Pages youtu.be/sOgwNUY_QCs

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanlandscapes #newtopographics #landscape

#2wordprompt - #private / #employ Seize the means of occultation! Collectivize all private eyes; employ any means necessary, set up networks of shortsighted cadres, find the historic line by feel and though vibes.

#7syllablesentence #verdant Verdant expectation: grow! Truant, in fact — green no-show

#vss365 A snapshot of my point of view: to look out at indefinite fields braided with experience, a raucous #fury there in the middle distance — vipers! All goblins! Stick shakers! And this cupped in cloud palm, horizon cradle, held lightly in preternatural calm whether I knew it or not.

you can make it pretty far in life by just not being an annoying dickhead. which is why it's strange that so many people seem to be dickheadmaxxing

There are two wolves inside you — one works on the docks, but he’s on strike; the other works the diner all day and brings home the pay for love. They’re holding on, and you better feed them both because they’re nice. It’s the right thing to do. #vss365 - #wolf

#7syllablesentence - #bound just like Woody Guthrie said all you fascists bound to lose youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

#7syllablesentence - #taste wrapped in persimmons and lies she was accused of poor taste

#2wordprompt #prompt #poem #microfiction “To hold #various views simultaneously, multivalently, to #entertain internal contradiction, is to make a persimmon of identity.” — This, the minister said, announcing a persimmon bridgehead into the new age, and a new wage structure for sin.

#vss365 - #trickery #investiture I. Astringent; puckered lips and grimacing, underdone persimmon’s trick, fruit simony— sweet office bought. II. Trickery is in the naming of things, in the conferring of an office, the investiture of your ripe persimmon bishopric, money changing sticky hands.

#vss365 #Seafoam green hospital walls, like the finish on a surf guitar, all walk don’t run, whammy bar dive, barf, guts are rolling breakers; there’s Neptune and his mermaids with their wavy hair floating in the IV bag, waving tridents, following the current down into the abyss of your veins.

#2WordPrompt #prompt #poem #microfiction Tea leaves weren’t meant to be #read by just anyone: #unless possessed of authenticity, a deep well of feeling for the terraces of Darjeeling which scaled the green mountainsides, intuition came not steeped but skewed — either acrid or stewed.

Pete Hegseth reads more from the Bible:

#vss365 - #hammer 🔨 A hammer dulcimer is certainly a zither, though the opposite isn’t true; and even the hammers themselves are in question, more resembling little spoons — either way, the day is radiant in Washington Square Park, the tune endless and laughing. youtu.be/pgE5wb9bXKI

#LookAndSee 370 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise And someday in the midst of time When they ask me if I knew you I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine youtu.be/FDlDKvidYbk

#vss365 - #ink India ink in a bottle on the writing desk for inscribing permanence; Indian rubber beside, effacing graphite, letting us forget a year of lies; Indian summer beyond the sill, shaking hands with St. Martin until the next killing frost arrives.

Hobbies are awesome. I've started screaming at the sun.

#LookAndSee 368 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Talk Talk - Eden youtu.be/1EbnS4KqeAo

#vss365 - #hand The Invisible Hand of old Adam Smith — filching the money back to the rich — it’s just economics, dear, I hear Adam say — the Hand might give you a job — or else take it away.

#photography #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #nature

#2wordprompt #prompt #poem Propped up on wires & rods, natural history #museum — hoary old bones preserved by the #method of virtual man-gods an eon into your future Australopithecus — I wish you could hang with us; Homo Erectus — you went before and got wrecked for us, all stone age Jesus.

#vss365 - #sand Before my days as mystic space dictator, I was married, had kids, suburban everyday shit. But things have a way of getting out of hand — I ever tell you that I don’t like sand?

#LookAndSee 367 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Tommy Guerrero - Silent Miles youtu.be/hZMRSM8c8as

#2wordprompt - remain / connect #poem #prompt The causal chain connects your quantum decades to the old high school plug: straight physics isn’t it? You might think so, hallucinator. But here you remain. Just relativistic little you, years later — still on drugs.

#vss365 - #ring You’re a gangster in a sardonics ring; me, I just bring along the ironical narcotics, a set of smart-assed remarks cultivated with vitamin drips and hydroponic ops; us now: dressed up in funny neckties, catching slow rides across town, up in the wee hours, watching vacant lots.

#photography #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #nature

#2wordprompt - #cozy / #goal #poem #prompt fraudulent #haiku cozy like a boiled egg in your pants pocket where perpetual squish is an attainable goal

#vss365 - #exalted When the whales were uplifted, we were bathed in lilting soprano song — exalted by the presence of New Persons, raised together, boarding great cylinders and off to the depths of dark stars, the depths of night seas, inward depths.

#EmojiSounds (25) 📺 #MusicChallenge TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose youtu.be/dvWfwTm6pys

#2WordPrompt - #clarify / #true #poem #writing #prompt faux #haiku Unprotected time. A point of information! “Would the honorable member care to clarify, is it true…?” “No, no thank you.”

#photography #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #architecture #newtopographics #urbanlandscapes

#vss365 - #tempest A world inundated with stormy sorcery: prosper we might, o, but was the world brave that we should be like that, was it new? Was it full of the right kind of people? Were the devils in, out or elsewhere? Did we shuffle like beasts and use our language for nothing but curses?

are there any more things like this

#2WordPrompt - permit / practice #poem #writing #prompt pseudo #haiku At a loss: do we re-permit the practice of ritual cannibalism and so re-open the sauce question, too?

#vss365 #waver I saw the Mistress of Arcadia out in her saffron dinghy just as it capsized, and I ran about in perennial panic! There she was, neck deep in the bay, frowning or wavering, I couldn’t say; So, baffled, I left her there, and wondered in days ahead why all the crocuses died.

#LookAndSee 356 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Hammock - All Flesh is Grass youtu.be/VqP01giF1Is

#nowlistening #musicsky #blueskymusic #jazz Chick Corea - Night Sprite youtu.be/jip3wggEMLg

#2WordPrompt #deliver / #study Short deadline to deliver a backbeat study on the funk of the sacroiliac, Jack

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanlandscapes #newtopographics #architecture

Your fairy faun shawm is all up in my Heidelberg hat, following the little mini train tracks all around the brim as if my noggin were a cuckoo clock on the steeple of a notably stolid cathedral, divided: trapping tourists successfully, but otherwise going nowhere. #vss365 - #divide

#vss365 #2WordPrompt How public can a mystery be and still, well, be? Despoina, Black Demeter of Arcadia, turns the cave inside out for mass-rapid initiation, inscription billboards; sacrifices two for one on a Kaiser bun from a truck, overcast grotto, divine homestead by Frederick Law Olmsted.

#vss365 #2WordPrompt A Venusian in Arcadia, one part travelogue, one part comedy of manners — an interplanetary but faithless elector voting with his feet for claustrophobic clouds over fey rays and unknown pleasures — a sun dog and a pointless celebrity cameo thrown in for good measure.