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Laundromat Poem

4 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] The laundromat is like a diner; I want to wash mymilkshakehat In the vat of foaming hamburgers, Run my fingers through the French Fry suds, Find someone's missing malted  Sock Drying in the sink, Mop the checkerb...

Never enough

3 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

In this world, I have lost myself.The weight others carry, I made my obsessionthe selfishness, the hollow wallsThis life is cruel, and I am....rehearsing Photo by Vojtech Bruzek on UnsplashA liar rehearsing lines he did not write,obscuring the truth,...

Pillar of Moonlight

1 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Beltane?  Or is it, Sorry, Burn in Helltane? Looks like my kinda Party, but you can not have  Your lake of fire and eat it, Too. You have to choose. Put on your Shoes, God is leading the  Way. A pillar of moonlight shines before us. I can already h...

Radioactive Face Cancer

30 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] I may not have a clue I may not have the answer Another thing that I don't haveis radioactive face cancer  Uranium my cranium! My skeleton's gone fission! My spinal column has become quite solemn;I've been arrest...

Pillar of Dust

26 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Pillar of Dust I didn't know my hands were dirty until I washed them in thesink.I blink therefore I breathe.I think therefore I seethe. Behold the scenic van peoplestanding in the IMAXwasteland;The pillar of liv...

Waterfront

24 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] I left the firebackat the waterfront. I made a list  Of the executioners she kissed. I went away beyond the red line. My liver made the headline. How will I live beyond thedead line? The list is a fist, but... Wh...

The Recreation Myth

23 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Do you believe in the theory of recreation? The idea that mankind can recreate the present moment? The gift of all eternity? Do you believe it with confident uncertainty? Are you the rational insurgency? Because,...

Proverbs of Smog #76

12 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Seventy-Six 1. We danced on the rooftop of the world. 2. We watched the sun run across the sky 3. Like the king of the night. 4. We ate the dirty pearl. 5. We never asked why. 6. We wrote...

The Arithmetic of Letting Go

9 Apr 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Prompted Beauty

There was a hand once — open, unhurried, sure of itself, the kind that reached for things before it knew their names. Then came the scissors. Small. Precise. Labeled neatly — a. — as if loss, too, follows an instruction manual, as if every wound has...

The last meal

27 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

Source The prisoner awaits his execution, a calmness around him, he is prepared, nothing matters now. He withers, a man who is dead, but has to go through a barrier of restraint: A mercy for the faulty, in some aspect a signal for the living: the vi...