Foster

What’s the point of imagining anythingwhen it’s all laid out in front of us on demand?Even Tolkien has been replicated to infinity. How many more space operas do we needbefore we perfect the Lucas format,and enjoy that like it finally deserves? So many channels full of commercialslaced with every minor detail that ensuresyou will feel […]

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Middle

Washed up like broken bottle pieceson a beach where no one visitsbecause the sunlight there is like a starefrom someone you have always disappointed.Rusted fences and tucked away peoplepaid almost nothing to be left alonebut not forgotten by the board roomspulling strings with all the ringslaced over fingertips.They go to bars where all the girlsare […]

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Immortals

There is a statue of a gamblerout front where all the pigeonsgo to peck at stones and stareout past the slowly fading roadside.This city has a tradition of immortalizingbad luck on forever so no one elsecan make it any better.There is a woman with thinning hairand a gut that she keeps tuckedinside her sweatpants.She is […]

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Millennia

The empty shelves are like the ribsof some lost skeleton sticking outof the warm sand in a new desertI have only just imagined.At the oasis they are grilling upsome lizards I have never seen,and the smoke is like a goodbye hug to start with.Artists selling paintings of the landscapeor of people like the womanwith her […]

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Trajectory

Addicted to it all we walk alongthe wall around the city that is keepingout the people we’re afraid of.I cut open my plastic grocery bagand let the contents fall outon the floor because I just don’tcare about this weekend anymoreI want the summer.You look at me with your scratchedup sunglasses and saythere is another way […]

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Morph

I don’t understand peoplewhen I most need to or why a red skyin the evening is somehow a good thing.I mean, I know it’s meant for those out on the ocean,but what does any of that have to do with me?In this land locked overcrowded swathof the exploited, all the waves we seeare from the […]

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Speed

Metal scrapes across metal as a the firecolored sky is all but lost in the processionof the night. The tired backs stretch out withall the quiet time around them,and the different frames before themare the digital equivalent of a reflection.There we can make things permanentand skip over the parts we hope to cutout of our […]

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