Verse Indeterminate
By purlock
Verse Indeterminate
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Rules for Email Etiquette
Don’t mention Lilly’s hieroglyph.
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Head space
When did the wind gaffer two Stanley knives together to slice me like this? Fingers reddened to clay; but the metaphorical hi-viz and hard hat untouched in the back of the car
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Your Name Has Been Randomly Selected
Pennie Rakestraw emailed details of my order; she claimed it helped performance in the bedroom. Freuden Ginnery agreed and lodged himself between
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The Islanders
The islanders we met were digital natives; bronzed and nubile, their ankles garlanded with flash drives fashioned from conch-shells.
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Speaking of the Dead
I levitate the hatstand. In theory I could leave, but what comes out is like a language only twisted, not our own.
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The Funnel
I sunk a borehole deep into the city. A rolled-up wedge of cardboard inserted in the ear. A face appears at the window, needing something from the morning, conversation maybe
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Dreams
At the dead centre of a dream where X marks the spot the light switched off, or would have; at the end of the garden where the wild badger stirs in his sett and the alley, damp with fox, hexed
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Exits
We moved through the place like ghosts, really, wearing oversized coats, the petrified stares of stuffed mammals as masks. We crept backstage, rearranged the things we thought
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The Abandoned Plot
All the clues were in place: I felt the constant in/out flow. We heard of a spate of logos, unmanned desks, gyratory reworked into an accident waiting to happen; the smell of shellfish
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The Falling
When the supplies ran out we turned against the environment that bred us. When everything stopped we took the furniture inside: bollards and all. We lived in the rubble of the big ideas,
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