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Benway

  • Paper Cups

    Little paper cups sitting all about the room and not a drop to drink in thembut the retreating moon,and so, in dregs of coffeeblack and gone,I drink to you, my ...

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  • The Atman Callus

    Who are youthat Ishould call you"home,"the blank nomenclatureof where we put to bedall the thingsnot fit for the forumof impermanent minds;who, whatare youthat I should bump into youin the virtual ...

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  • Cradle of Myth

    From egoistic soilgrew the worldswaddled as a boyand as a girl,the sexless sexed miasmaof a styleforetold by junk-sick dandiesand Prohibition guile.A pornographic lullaby by nightour shared, forsaken

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  • The Soft Forge

    A serious thing, but a soft thing--a maxim, a virtueof time and our thousand laughing, lazing hammer strokesupon the deepest steel,which bends to the water of lovers apart,which bends to ...

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  • The Philosopher, the Whore (Part 1)

    We met at night,back-alleys blackwith the scent of heady rue,my eyes attuned to ruby glintsin the timid stare of death.Behind a neon sunI found,standing in a skirt of webs,a child’s ...

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  • Night Studio

    Carefully, carefully down the way, walk paved with words and wants that shall stay hidden, riven between night and day from whence, to where God’s children play.

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Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
— William Gaddis