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Hunting and Gathering in the 1980s

I Nothing has grown here for a thousand years There are no nutrients here Things live by a different energy Magic once crested these breezes but That magic is gone II Today’s totems are pressed from the Tiny skeletons of … Continue reading

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Dorothy’s Day After

Dorothy knows this morning she had too much luau last night. She swats the radio alarm dead — she’s beyond snooze — and thinks about calling in sick to work. This makes her feel marginally guilty. She gets up to … Continue reading

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Dorothy’s Day

Sound filters through the depths of her sleep as Dorothy swims to the surface. She wakes to luau music, or some ad exec’s idea of it, as the radio alarm signals the start of another new day: “…arrive from the … Continue reading

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