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Karzkin

Karzkin

  • Haruspex of regret
    2 min read
  • 5 minutes outside
    1 min read
  • Of their own accord
    1 min read
  • Sunday morning mind
    1 min read
  • Mourning after
    1 min read
  • Stay golden
    1 min read
  • Concinnity
    1 min read
  • Unremembering
    2 min read
  • The anatomy of moving on
    2 min read
  • forgetting
    2 min read
  • Bitter
    23 min read
  • Eulogy

    For an inspiring woman. Here, take a bite out of life: the night, marching on, followed by the dawn – ...

    2 min read
  • double down

    “...it's better to feel the ache inside me like demons scratching at my heart than it is to feel ...

    2 min read
  • Zenshi ichimi

    A/N: These are an exercise inzenchi ichimi,thehaiku equivalent of free verse. 5/7/5 can suck it. Also, yws wouldn't render the title in Japanese in the title box, but for some ...

    2 min read
  • The last time I really cried

    If I were a drummer I would only ever play a never- ending press-roll, because that’s the only thing I’ve been able to hear in my head for the past ...

    3 min read
  • potential

    I am a blink- ing cursor Ilive in millions of empty pages you onlyneedto start but youdon't really understand the question do you?

    1 min read
  • The last thing I was really good at

    I dipped my hands into forever and finger- painted sunlight onto shards of my long- term memory you cracked hourglass you wasted my time

    1 min read
  • little deaths (or 'for want of mutual suicide pacts')

    i refrained from giving my beretta a blow-job instead i stretched my suicide across a year and counting white canvas covering white paint each leaving one less until my last

    1 min read
  • Increment

    "The only thing you can force in life is your breath, and if you can sound good on the clarinet you can sound good on anything."

    1 min read
  • Metro

    Ezra Pound was wrong. I refuse to sit on the train with my head bowed; I force myself to look out the window from a backwards-facing seat because hindsight is ...

    1 min read
  • D# Diminished Dominant

    D# E F# G A A# B# C# D# D# F# A E F# D# F# A E F#D# F# A E F# D# F# A E F#D# F# A ...

    6 min read
  • Cosmopolitan

    Learning about the world, in phases we hunger for another’s face. The bend of a river, digging deeply enough through the plowed earth

    6 min read
  • New shirts, old tears, and roundhouse kicks to the head

    Brothers are grim first thing on Sunday morning. I sacrificed seven virgins last night and had a premonition of my own death, so I tied myself to the mast so ...

    1 min read
  • One sleep too many (collaboration; Karzkin, PenguinAttack, Cadi)

    I once found myself addicted to the ache in my shoulders and the pulse in my throat but I tried to make my limbs fall off like a redgum in ...

    7 min read
  • homme du midi

    The telephone rang for the first time in months this evening. It was the gas company. Or it might have been the electricity company. I don’t know. I don’t remember. ...

    4 min read
  • Stop-start

    I often catch people staring through my hands or feet or through my side or straight through my chest. I feel my blood trying to burst out of my throat ...

    3 min read
  • One year ago, back in '36

    I haven't quite forgotten the colour of your bedsheets now I know what Lucy James meant

    1 min read
  • celinieks

    I lost an uphill battle with Vasks in my ears when my eyes rolled back in my head I saw the spaces where my back teeth used to be the ...

    2 min read
  • Led bloody Zepplin, that's who

    yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah mmm baby yeah yeah

    1 min read
  • Cosine charisma and electric veal cutlets

    Scabrous the gazellefalling into a buildingnext to a picnic that looks like an elephanthis spine is migratedto the landscape of cubeswhere coffee's legs are parallelRoosevelt tapirs and the navymeow a

    1 min read
  • grit

    but nothing separates the good from the great the sigh of scrunched eyelids cuts through the stadium's roar "Give up today try again tomorrow."

    1 min read
  • A study of the truth and simplicity

    A study of the truth and simplicity: an ode to questions that should perhaps remain unansweredHere's to lifeto laughterto likes, loveslamentations and late glory, gold, greedto pride, pain, and perfec

    2 min read
  • Spoiler! : It's been a while. You guys know the drill. Photographs on the wallof glory days long gone.They laugh and mock me,but their eyes are hollow like letters to ...

    1 min read
  • "Keep your right hand to the wall"

    Long you live and high you flySmiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cryBut all you touch and all you seeIs all your life will ever be.we came in?”This desert is ...

    4 min read
  • Acrid moments

    I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,I have seen the Eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.I.Let us go then, you and I,Through ...

    7 min read
  • Mr. K's vignettes for a lonesome evening

    "...Such money renders backIn payment he who is on Earth too daring."Sweeney said to me,"A lot of words are spoken here,But not much is said."He twisted and turned the ring ...

    1 min read
  • Midnight Sun: Part II

    Read part IEternal DuelHe calls me out to battle,To prolong our endless war.We will fight until the end of time,‘Til we are both no more.This is not the first time,Nor ...

    2 min read
  • Pizarro

    This monologue is from the point of view of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish general who conquered Peru in 1532. For more information, read this and this.________________________________________________

    5 min read
  • Lost

    ??? (Spring) Spoiler! : The elegant cat appears noble and gentle, but strikes with fury. ??? (Summer) Spoiler! :

    5 min read
  • Midnight Sun: Part I

    The Nightmare ManHe finds you when you're sleeping.He rattles on your door.He makes your nightmares real,He will make you beg for hole is small enough to hide,Nowhere is left to ...

    1 min read
  • [Untitled]

    It's easy to becomelost insidethe dimmed room andmusty books,lit by a gleamingcigarette;a pinprick behindyour eyes.

    1 min read
  • A collection of senryu

    一Haiku are harderThan a lot of people think.Please do some research.二These are all senryu,Definitely not haiku.Please learn the diff'rence.三Haiku need kigo,They must have seventeen on,And a keri

    1 min read
  • The story of your life
    1 min read
  • Dragon

    I lost a lot of blood that night, I lost a lot of face. I lost my mind in the flood that night. I had no saving grace. If I ...

    2 min read


You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.
— Jennifer Niven, 'All the Bright Places'