Opposable thumb ! ™
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Ferris Swill
fer·ris swill (fĕr′·ĭs swĭl)
noun
fair food, or drink, especially unhealthy
fare ; e.g., cotton candy, funnel cakes, etc .
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[ After George W. G. Ferris ( 1859-96 ), U.S. engineer /
ME swilen < OE swilian IE base * swel –, to devour > swallow 2 . ]
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Toiler’s Tenet
Put money in my sack !
— Mr Boxx —
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Damn Nature : [5] Vesuvius
In statues of ashfall,
A pyroclastic arrest
Of metabolism .
Entire settlements drown
In pumice and tephra,
Screams cut short
By the shifting matrix
Of travelling particles
Adrift .
Volcanic missiles and cinders
Of Hell rain down
On Herculaneum and Pompeii :
Thousands in the everyday end
Abruptly, the snipped by
The Fates .
The black skies brood over
The wake below, the sheet lightning
Freezing the wasteland smoke
With every bleak flash .
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In Darkness
Where the sun don’t shine,
Where the sun don’t shine :
Work your plunger there,
And see what you find .
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Gravity Always Wins
T o p p l e s
And f
a
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l
s
Full stop
▼
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Damn Nature : [6] Sans
Mill around the Lethe and the Styx, abstract .
Coda for the ages of man from Shakespeare
Settle in ebbing .
Metabolic failings announce onsetting
Aging filching life from the cells and tissues :
Fading sight, and silence replaced with phantom
Chirping of crickets .
Leading one to question the worth of life ;
Databases adding up bits of selfhood—
Proof of existence
More alive than life, that is only machine :
Longing spirit acting despite the laws of
Thermodynamics that slow the spinning gears
Toward a standstill .
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The Smallest Frame of Day
Even with reluctant step,
Walking the Planck is short :
The fall of gravity ⸻forever .
The shrinking of awareness
Into a quantum black hole .
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PreSamble
We the PEOPLE
Of the United States—that’s [ US ] :
Order the formulation of a more
Perfect Union, e☆blish Justice,
Prescribe domestic Tranquility,
Provide for common Defense,
Promote general Welfare, and
Prehend blessings of Liberty
for ourselves and our Posterity,
Do ordain and instripe this
Constitution for the United
State of America—
A Law for the Lay of the Land .
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Manta
Manta ray parabolic
Under uncertain waves :
A Lissajously fixed
Devil in a cloak
Sifting the gloam .
Wingtips puncture a level plane .
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Occupation : Poet . 