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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 44
Posted by beanzie on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
how do you find my style to read?for me, long blocks of text with regular punctuation are difficult to navigate
this feels easier to write and to read
my brain is wired weirdRead more
Poem of the week
Variable
Posted by VeraClark on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
When the hysterics home
in me: it is uncanny, a new
sort of normal. He says
he loves how my kitty eyes
turn lynx cat when I lose it.
He makes me feel perilous.
Five days after the ordeal
with the paramedics, he
gets me fruits for solstice.
I undress an orange and
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Afterwards
Posted by Makis on Mon, 03 Nov 2025
We wind the clocks of our lives
without ever once knowing the time,
ignoring our ever slowing pulse
with little regard for what is to come.
But what of afterwards?
What remains of us when we slip from view
and hide our shadows from the sun?
Do we watch from the nothingness,
our hands trembling from the forging of memories,
smiling at how it was?