"Words for Thought" By A.C. Wise. Apex Magazine, Issue 152
"Here are four stories that thread kindness and hope throughout difficult times." 🍲🪢
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kaiju (but make it haiku)
coming thru stomping
crushing whole blocks your defense
feeble can’t be stopped
kaiju (but make it haiku)
mountain grown from rock
spawn ash, molten miasma
cough fire at Pompeii
romo was not worth that...
at best, he was shadow of a promise of the hint at being better than average, but really he was just hella average.
id been a sixer since dr. j
never have i felt such betrayal
grotesque sea beast leaves
ships pilothouses behind
like herons fisheads
kaiju (but make it haiku)
beneath my scaled skin
stirs an unspeakable rage
erupting blue fire
kaiku (but make it haiku)
mutations born from
mankind's hubris, returning
favor in unkind
kaiju (but make it haiku)
The twins sing their song
While the rest of the tribe dance.
Oh shit! It's Mothra!
kaiju (but make it haiku)
you plundered the sea
risen from my ocean bed
my sighs boil the waves
kaiju (but make it haiku)
you picked a bad day
to take the el train, buddy
down the hatch with you
up from underneath
our memories and our fears
of atomic fire
that would be amazing!
kaiju (but make it haiku)
big motherfuckers
from deep under the ocean
wrecking all your shit
nihonbashi, then
ginza, akihabara -
burn and burn and burn
the same when philly traded iverson... the start of the 21st century was some fucked up shit...
i was devoutly dallas... until jones made romo the highest paid qb in the world... that broke me.
i dont think ive watched an hour of pro fball since then.
kaiju (but make it haiku)
Buildings are crushed
Mothra is the final hope
The scientists weep
tsunami sirens
we had no warning system
for giant monsters
kaiju (but make it haiku)
the moth i become
grows tangential to your flame
my wings blot the sun
kaiju (but make it haiku)
breath is hot laser
we lay in rubbled wasteland
then shed scales, trade love
kaiju (but make it haiku)
your homes, your cities
so intricately tiny
and so delicious
matchbook stories!
i still wanna do a collection of poems on a seven fold cassete j-card...
the poems would be printed on the folds with an actual cassette of me reading the poems. i even looked up cassette-shaped thumbdrives for digital copies. i hate that this plan fell apart.
my most underappreciated post...
kaiju (but make it haiku)
seven thousand ton
radioactive forehead
transmitting love songs
welp... i over-edited until i fucked it up, but im in reclamation mode now & i think ive recovered nicely
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POET, LEARN TO STOP!
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sons of kemet
IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN
youtu.be/wmN3vFIukk4?...
been a fan of OP-RdC going way back but this song is actually listed as being by "de contou" (which may simply be a mistake, idk, but it's on the album, World Psychedelic Classics 3). but there are several variations of the name on most streaming services. certainly the same band - LISTEN TO EM ALL!