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Morning Face
Clever hands make a cup of ice-cold water to splash without warning on face. BANG!!
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Afternoon Feet
On my back, shitty mood, watching my feet go pigeon-toe to splay, duck-foot and back again, like a pair of windshield wipers.
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September 2024

Three Cucumbers
My cucumbers lie on the waiting earth hiding under their camouflage of leaves...
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How to Get Water Out of a Tire
Here's that tire, half full of rainwater. When they lie on their backs all summer long tires do that, don't they. A toroidal teaser...
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Hands
I have a million hands. One holds a flower, another holds a wrench
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August 2024

Old Hand
Old Hand
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Dieting for Death
An obese man, no kinder word for it, is thinking about committing suicide.!
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The Angry Sirocco
Suddenly as a turned page (did we skip a beat, fail an abracadabra?)
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July 2024

The Sirocco in Leonia
Owing to the debilitating despair it annually inflicts on young and old
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June 2024

The Solipisist's Big Worry
Listen, everyone, like it or not they exist, others exist.
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The Sector Commander's Daughter
The communist sector commander is a fierce aficionado of Western designs. We wade ashore with cartons of iPhones Marlboros, Air Jordans, Calvin Kleins…
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May 2024

Joy
For eons of mind-time, deep in the brain's dark matter
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