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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...
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...
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,...
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...
9 Apr 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Nurnobi Islam
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...
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...
7 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Although it is not in the authorizedrepertoire, if my people request itof me, I am going to sing it."Jorge Cafrune Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Seven 1. I was not yet 500 years old, but I have spent a lot of time in vans; 2. Was I the two 19-year...
23 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments karoshi31
Blue-white glow seeps....illumination, uninvited, creeps.The work pushed through,the doubts, the clarity that won't last. The day already gonethat lasted so long. Photo by Greta Bartolini on Unsplash But the hour that belongs to no one,shadows bring...
2 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Marekiaro
I'm not from the neighborhood, I'm from a strange dream, while the world runs fast I draw by hand. I have no godparents, I have no protections, just strong ideas and too many visions. Callisto is cold, like certain sunny nights, but whoever hears...
1 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Two 1. I wash my hair in the laundrymart. I am the king of clothes. 2. I fold my subjects neatly. Television shirts are hanging by their dirtsleeves. 3. Honeybirds and bluebees; ma...
