#1:
Month: May 2022
The Social Network
LATER generations might miss its role, obscured by form:
SALON, early social network, proto strewer of high
GRADE untruths. Yet also: a mimetic source to spread
MIRTH, witty contagion countering human gloom.
2022-05-30 words
LATER, SALON, GRADE, MIRTH
125
LORRY drivers from many countries
GNASH their teeth as the vultures
SWOOP over the roads that
EXIST as their buffet lines.
Reflexes
LORRY, if suddenly coming at you, soon to
GNASH you into a wall, like angry teeth, one fell
SWOOP—don’t ask “why not a truck?”
EXIST! Evade! No time to muse on dialects.
2022-05-29 words
LORRY, GNASH, SWOOP, EXIST
124
PARKA pulled close as you
COWER against the knifing cold;
TURBO engines roar at liftoff from the
DUCHY in the north.
An Odd Fish
COWER in kitchen till last moment, forced to serve calamity:
TURBO, misspelled fish adrift on chef’s menu. Shaking proffer to
DUCHY’s puffed up Duke, grown splenetic, long time since famous
PARKA worn in expedition, when he worked for the attention sought.
2022-05-28 words
COWER, TURBO, DUCHY, PARKA
Some Assembly Required
COVER your face with your hands.
REFER to the instructions; watch them
MORPH away from intelligibility.
TWIRL the tools in hand to fight frustration.