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Month: September 2019

Posted on September 29, 2019April 14, 2021

Freedom is Slavery

Just my reflection on the school system in Australia and how it replicates the workhouse and factory system of the Victorian era. Sirens, uniforms, rows of desks, 'wardens'.

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Posted on September 28, 2019

Possibilities

A taut string from a bowIs all that you need.A straight, sharp arrowWill finish the deed.Pin down your ambitionAnd kill it.See how it bleeds.

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Posted on September 28, 2019

A Cliche Killing (Roget’s Revenge)

This is an oldie. Written in 1992. The man approached the wooden doorof the house of Mr McGabbin."Excuse me sir, I need to speak,do you…

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Posted on September 27, 2019

I Think About Monsters

I think about monsters a lot. I think about the silences around them, the way words can flatten and reduce (thinking, loving, feeling, fearing) humans…

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Posted on September 26, 2019

Thanks Oprah…

"You are responsible for your life... so, don't wait for somebody else to fix you, to save you or complete you. Jerry MaGuire was just…

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Posted on September 25, 2019

Vigil

On a forgotten shore by a tumultuous sea stands a time ruined monument to a featureless god. His vanishing mouth speaks unspeakable things, but like…

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Posted on September 24, 2019

The Love Letter

He was an unreliable man. For their first date, he showed up one year late. Therefore, when he left, to make sure he would come…

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Posted on September 24, 2019

I am…

what nobody tells you about rainclouds is their propensity to linger about uninvited, stones beneath eyes that solidify your place under a scrutiny  what they leave out is…

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Posted on September 22, 2019September 22, 2019

Shopping at Ikea

The screws and nuts are everwhere and that's just the customers.The smell of plastic and pine... ahh! Food service in the restaurant.Arrows conveying human sheep…

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Posted on September 22, 2019September 22, 2019

Redemption

An exposition to a story, based on this visual stimulus. Cold air clung to the wooden crosses, markers to the bones resting under them. Deathly still. The parched,…

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