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Iran’s Silent Killer: 161 Lives Lost Every Day

30 Nov 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr

  Iran’s Silent Killer: 161 Lives Lost Every Day to Poisonous Air                                   Yes, you read that right – 161 people die daily in Iran because of air pollution. Citizens are now calling their country “Iran’s A...

I am a Verb, You are a Noun

23 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"But how free can we really be,with a mandatory sense of false security,sailing the seas of hideous idiocy?"Pablo Smog   Chasing the snail involves cruising below the speed limit on a street lined with golden trees, because who wants to leave this pl...

I'll Never Love You

12 Nov 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Last stop for a resolutionend of the line, into confusion"Elliott Smith   The story of Tracy Cat is a story of love and death.  It is a drama laced with poison, a harrowing tale of addiction and desire.  I wrote the outline in the "Good Morning Holl...

Voltaire

10 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Will Jones

Voltaire One   ╰(*°▽°*)╯   Did Voltaire wear skinny boy jeans   They seem   to promote voluntary YouTube streams   Voluncel fantasies.   Plus, you bite when I squeeze   very tasty   Boston creams a spry strudel    cream cheese   muy lazy   kinda hazy...

Invisible Cell/Sell

6 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Lucid Vibrations

Invisible cell, in your head!Fell to the yell, souls dead! They creep and crawl into our psyche. Bamboozled by bargains and propaganda profanity! We are the United States…UNITED ON ONE BIG SHOPPING SPREE!Think we are free because of the illusion of c...

Free At Last

5 Nov 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gainthe whole world, and lose his own soul?”Mark 8:36   And so it is thus that the adventures of Jax and Lila, the rock & roll burnouts, continue...   Act 1: A Little Love Operating under the influence of...

The Jax Trilogy

1 Nov 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a tokenof a covenant between me and the earth."Genesis 9:13   Jax is a rock & roll singer from the edge of the world, the place where the sea drops off into outer space.  He grew up watching all mann...

A New Fountainhead

22 Oct 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain."The Fountainhead   I was at a library with a friend recently, and happened upon a book of poetry by Federico García Lorca.  I opened the book, and was immediat...

Proverbs of Smog #16

17 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog  Chapter Sixteen  1. Don't worry about falling behind. It's the only way to get ahead. 2. If we're lucky, there will be a Buc-ee's in Kentucky. 3. The Six Flags of truckstops; road warrior Valhal...

Today, with an ugly mind, they cultivate jealousy.Angry poetry.

15 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments nevlu123

It seems that today, self-interest is wandering.Being good for oneself is the main thing,everything else is a blurred cover. And morality seems to be imprisoned in ferocity.Today, in the midst of good,the bad has become a companion. Throwing away rea...