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Ah, time change. It always feels like such a glitch for the body and psyche when we do this. I wish we’d simply pattern our lives around a single global clock so we wouldn’t have to shift everything all the time. We’d still structure our days around the sun (more or less) but it might by 10pm for me during what I would now call 4pm. Alas. It’s a lament that has been lamented to death.

We are in November now, so the mad dash for holidays is well under way by the capitalist machine. Alas. Another lament.

What’s something I can say that isn’t a complaint about the structures of modernity? Perhaps I could simply point out today is Dia de los Muertos and we should reflect on that. I shall see about having some sweet bread and contemplate and honor the humans that have brought us to this point of existence. A proper holiday, unconstrained by the clock. Fitting.

Buenos dias.

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nadir

You cold little miracles Scattered on velvet firmament Like so many diamond shards Mocking

Strike up the battle cry Under silken sky And string up the bows Of the symphony of Infinite derision

Oh I wonder at the Abyssal and abysmal The night-dark pressure depth And the measured death Of the bluelight Thermoclines

The secret heat of the Vulcan blood seeps Through icy mood and Blooms vibrant and violent Across the floor of Your very soul

Strike up the war cry Under saffron sky And break the boughs Of the concerto of Unshriven visions

Framed like a Neptune gem A tragic lattice Like a cobalt cage Menaced by sharks And freed by Meadow larks

Arise, arise And burst resplendent A dew anointed flower Gazing for endless hours Dreadless showers Nary hoary dour

Evaded the invaded Green but unjaded Alive and unabraded Sated but unable Safe but creche cradled

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