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Feb 3, 2012, 3:15 am
penumbra . 13
Akif Hakan
There are many roads to hell and heaven knows Anna-Marie has set foot on a few. All those candidates who have been ejected from the unmarked back door of the NeuroReGenesis Laboratories share her destitution but Anna-Marie considers herself lucky to be one of the few to hav... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 3:15 am
Photo by Greg MoranThe Dogs of Summer Passing
~ Pisces Iscariot circa 1985
In the headlong rush to consume the moment
To capture it in megapixels bits and bytes undigested
Overexposed
We commit those very moments to misinterpretation
Perhaps we should sometimes abstain from action
And allow the worl... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 3:15 am
... on the mooring lines of harboured ships; the sun catching their edges; are the ... the planet, they are glittering tears in the Leviathan’s wake.
Perhaps we may give a moment of silence for these most desperate of creatures – unlike those suspended within the Leviathan’s womb, these tr... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 3:15 am
Mike Luckovich
CACI
Titan
Bechtel
Custer Battles
General Dynamics
Nour USA Ltd.
Chevron
Halliburton
Veritas Capital Fund/DynCorp
Washington Group International
Environmental Chemical
Aegis
International American Products
Erinys
Fluor
Perini
URS Corporation
...and so on Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 3:15 am
Lisette Talate
It is as if writers as watchdogs are extinct, or in thrall to a sociopathic zeitgeist, convinced they are too clever to be duped. Witness the stampede of sycophants eager to deify Christopher Hitchens, a war lover who longed to be allowed to justify the crimes of rapacious power. "For... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 3:15 am
Abre los ojos
Lucas Brezak
If I were a praying mantis
I would pray for the violent overthrow of your gambling rooms
For the dismantling of your corrupt cabinets
Screw by privileged screw
If I was a man of action
A soldier of misfortune
I would storm the ramparts of your stolen property
Lay waste to ... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 4:15 am
Richard Burbridge
And we circle each other at distances beyond knowing
The hunter and the hunter
In snow covered hills beneath a cirrus sky blue
The hunted and the haunted
Through days of rain and nights of fire
We ignore our paths’ repeated erosive tread
We ignore the exposed strata of the past r... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 3:15 am
penumbra.2
Still from The Man From London
In the Great Station Hall, now bereft of trains, the monitors glow valve-orange and hum monotonous as they regulate the levels and core temperatures of the tanks containing MantraRay’s antilight. Arcane steam powered technology manoeuvres the Leviptron’s... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 7:16 am
The current system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust. We need alternatives; this is where we work towards them.We are of all ethnicities, backgrounds, genders, generations, sexualities dis/abilities and faiths. We stand together with occupations all over the world.We refuse to pay for ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 3:15 am
Kyungduk Kim
Surprisingly, I have reasonably good relationship with Word’s spelling & grammar checker.
I have it running live, so to speak, so it highlights any perceived errors I might make as I make them.
But I absolutely hate the rest of it – honestly I am more comfortable creating a page in ... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 3:15 am
Where Is The Fucking Cat? ~ Benoit Paille
The ground is mistaken
You are no contender
For the glittering prize
Awarded for glass walkers
On unpatterned steps
Designed to obscure
The house overlooking
In twilight mistaken
Yellow-tooth kitchen
And bedroom blue eyes
Which talk to the garden
In whispers... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2011, 3:15 am
Crumb
It is nothing if not ironic that the very idea of trust is so flawed.
Since to consider trust in its essence one must look for it to be perfect.
Perfect in the sense that it is at once stronger than logic and simultaneously extremely fragile: once broken it cannot truly be repaired.
Perhaps I ... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2011, 3:15 am
A Perfect Vacuum ~ Jeremy Geddes
On autumn’s run the morning sun
Reflects on amber sleeves
Takes my hand on a one-night-stand
To the corner of the world
An island’s dream encased in steam
To warm my dew-drop heart
Takes me in - a heroine
On the corner of the world
On winter wings the evening sin... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 3:15 am
Last week I gave the address of the Far Queue to an old friend from way back – we haven’t really spoken for nearly 20 years.
This is only relevant because until then nobody I know (besides wife and sons) knows that the Far Queue exists, let alone that it is where I spew out the toxic waste that ... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 3:15 am
Alen MacWeeney
I’ve been hanging with the hollow men
In shiny suits and cocaine teeth
Morning brings the broken numbers
On whose padded shoulders
The world pretends to balance
I’ve been hanging with the hollow men
All shiny cars and champagne nights
Morning brings my broken teeth
On a gold plate... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2011, 3:15 am
from Architect's Brother
by Robert & Shana Parkeharrison
i’m thinking how the creative urge lives best on the edges of the river familiar
away from the slow waters of the tried and tested
closer to the rocks
i’m thinking how this urge is what forms the river in the first place
applying pressure ... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 3:15 am
Sylvia Ji
The agents arrive at the corner of the building
Intelligence has led them to believe that I am not to be trusted
Across the world they’re waging war
And telling us nothing
The agents approach the revolving doors
I watch from the other side of the road
Across the world they rape and pilla... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2011, 3:15 am
Mick KnightThe Far Queue is feeling a little tired and in need of tidying. A number of the Babylonian links are broken and there are some new ones that need to be hung up. Here in the doldrums of a summer that said “meh” as it kicked its heels in anticipation of who-knows-what I find myself wres... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2011, 3:15 am
Like an epileptic fit
Being suffered by a puppet
He strides across the room
As if the world owes him a living
Like the skeleton within
Who dancing a grim fandango
Strings attached to which he offers no resistance
As if the world owes it to him
But who am I to pass
These judgements dressed in stone
A... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 3:15 am
Marcus Andren
Your house was so empty
No weather forecast
Wind-blown and wood-grain
The dust stung your eyes
The walls wore a veneer
Too tender to last
Ode to the memory of your mamma’s warm heart
Where all was anchored
In the bay of chance
Your words were so empty
No summer clear skies
Wound down... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2011, 3:15 am
penumbra.1
via Jhalal Drut“Are you feeling better now Ivan?”
“Leave me alone Trinny.”
“I don’t think you need to be alone Ivan.”
“You’re not supposed to think Trinny; you're a fucking machine.”
“I can only make the assumption that you’re resorting to insulting me is a measure... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2011, 3:15 am
Perhaps I should add (for those citizens of police states other than this one) that families in London have been threatened with eviction from their council homes because their children were involved in the riots Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2011, 3:15 am
via FreakingNews
The moon turns to illuminate
My impatient wait
For the imp of the perverse
Who turns up late Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2011, 3:15 am
Still from Bela Tarr's astonishingly beautiful The Man From London
from eerie of concrete
through slow-time
and dead-heart release
i watch the monolith breathe
all creaking earthquake weather
and crackling pigskin pucker
soft down the decades
to the school of hard knocks
subtle in the infinite
cut t... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2011, 3:15 am
David Camerunt; his future Lordship puts down the 2011 peasant revolt
I'll never understand why the English 'working class' wave the flag for queen and country while voting in the these tory pirates - basically sodomising their future in the hope that their lordships will throw them a bone every now... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2011, 3:15 am
Kubicki
Late summer spiders
Span sedate this Sunday dream
Catch the feted flies
Of muted minutes in-between
Tuck them in goodnight
In beds of gardens green
And hollow out
The future’s opaque screen
Late summer spiders
Across the garden green
Skittle skate Sunday late
The future’s hollow scream Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2011, 3:15 am
'Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.'
~ Frank Zappa Comment - Like
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Jul 25, 2011, 3:15 am
Michael Malak
Across the city, in a circle of extravagantly warm light; behind impenetrable black curtains; behind the inevitable night; they dance a paradoxical Charleston, all jitterbug hype and light speed abandon in the face of the abysmal divide between those within and those without.
Now, as b... Comment - Like
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Jul 22, 2011, 3:15 am
William Mortensen
With non-spill cups from the caffeine breast
Phone-thumbing oblivious along with all the rest
Of a devolving species running the inhuman race
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Jul 18, 2011, 3:15 am
[Extracted from the files of Mark Time P.I.]
It is important to know where you stand in relation to others. There are many who define their place in the world by what they perceive as status; specifically the kind of status that can only be bought.
“I don’t know who else I can turn to, Mr. Time... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 3:15 am
Willy Ronis
Confined to the head and vain under glass, I wish I could trust that my armour would last; hold up against the onslaught of days where each piece of knowledge is a chip or a fall from somebody’s definition of grace.
Keep a cool head they all say, keep your heart off your sleeve - but t... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2011, 3:15 am
I might swim to a country beyond the imagination
If I had the inclination
But I don’t so I won’t
Since the imagination
Will always remain a more palatable destination Comment - Like
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Jul 6, 2011, 3:15 am
Patti
And I won’t wag this tailless dog
That named itself boredom
As a child who pulls the legs off a frog
And finds no room to store them
In the box that’s labelled ‘Acceptable’
After Berryman, via Iggy Pop Comment - Like
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Jul 2, 2011, 3:15 am
Last Pages ~ François Schuiten
This amorality tale is dedicated to those of us who can admit to the fact that we are the proverbial ‘Office Worker’; to those of us who still care to notice the world around us and have not given in to the corporate ladder to nowhere; for those of us who, while a... Comment - Like
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Jul 1, 2011, 3:15 am
Shitty Life
“Name?”
“erm… Atom”
“Let me see… here it is… Adam Earham? You’ll be starting with Mr Geogh in the Green Department. You’ll like Mr Gough, he’s a blue sky thinker.”
Inside, the traffic silenced by double gazed edifice, The Green Department hummed its own self impo... Comment - Like
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Jun 27, 2011, 3:15 am
Orfeus og Eutydike ~ Palle Nielson
It’s all window-dressing; it’s how we adapt our surroundings to best shield ourselves from our fears.
Some cells are padded and some are bamboo lined and there are those who say you can tell a man by the state of his cell.
We are all here on a voluntary basis,... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2011, 3:15 am
Sodgers
The weather up here on the plateau is unfettered by subtlety. The earth is a reddish yellow concoction of 9 parts dust and 1 part sand that the wind has no problem whipping it up into stinging flurries.
Home at last, the specimen formerly known as No.3 feels the shape of his body squared and... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2011, 3:15 am
Concierges Rue du Dragon Paris 1945 ~ Robert Doisneau
Down at the water’s edge translating visions to flesh
Down by the river carrying dreams out to sea
Down by the water’s bright edge
Where the half-dead men dance
A sad and faltering fandango
With the ghosts of my vanity
Whisper don’t waken t... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2011, 3:15 am
[Extracted from the files of Mark Time P.I.]
It is impossible to comprehend the lives of others.
We attempt to understand others by creating an other within ourselves; an avatar; a lens; a mirror with which to observe ourselves in a favourable light.
“You promised me, Mr Time, that you would not ... Comment - Like
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Jun 19, 2011, 3:15 am
A talking cat, it seems, is a walking cliché. And, were I to believe that to be true, I might cut off my own tail and walk upright like one of you lot: all baldy coat and self-importance, (as if you can show us all a thing or two, something we wouldn’t believe). But I cannot associate myself with... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2011, 3:15 am
It's difficult to quantify the mixed feelings inspired by success. Especially for success that is hard won.
It is so seldom that we manage to meet the entry-level requirements for our product to be accepted into the machine that I often forget what it feels like to succeed.
Hopefully Nigel will have... Comment - Like
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