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Dear Reader,

This blog dun gid neglectified.

?

Because I have been working on dialogue. Boy, is that shit hard to pull off.

The nice thing about dialogue is getting to use fun, lively things like cliches guilt-free, and also spelling out words phonetically.

To practice&learn, have been attempting provocative conversation with library patrons. So many characters. Book-stalking people. I know everything you've ever checked out, and how much you've contributed to your own debt when you fail to return the materials within 1, 3, or 12 months.

So far, the character that generates the most genuine-sounding lines is myself. The challenge is to not make everyone else sound like myself.

This challenge leads to the inevitable hypothetical - what if everyone on the planet was a personality-clone of me?

Thus the world of my little stories is so far rather ambivalent, and hopeful, and at times so isolating.

Poem about My Handwriting

Pent-up manship. One-upped on internet
evangelists. Submitting curves and lines,
define your i’s with strokes that imply
even pressure, even blots won’t remain
blots for long.

Exert control!
o’s too round and you risk deflating
t’s too tall and fall replacing
b’s without backhanded regression
into clean, free, space.

Clean, free, space to contain the wicked
expressions of my lust and hate, church and
state. Swirled disguised maintained angles
so pretty and unpredictable they just fall
right into place.

I look at the ugly scrawl
scrawled on my desk-neighbor’s loose-leaf
thinking I have her beat but she raises her
hand and asks the doctor to repeat the
third-to-last thing he said and script
completely lost its potency that day for me.

Poem Made of Autechre Song Titles

note one: grammar devices, capitalization, mine

note two: song title dissection follows my version

"Nil"

the trees dropp eggshell fermium
(windwind, teartear, fold4, wrap5)
paralel suns fwze Montreal.
Arch Carrier left blank doctrine.
The plc steels bike.
Overand outpt!


/nil/

/the trees / drop / eggshell / fermium
/windwind / teartear / fold4,wrap5
/paralel suns / fwze / Montreal
/arch carrier / left blank / doctrine
/the plc / steels / bike
/overand / outpt