Dangling high
Above your eyes
An acrobat
Weaves
A thin
Translucent
Spiral silk
Latent net
Intermixing sparkling
Diamonds
Around circles
Finishing off
The weaving acrobat’s
Perfect web.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Robot 911 operators
robotic operators sitting in cubicles slowly motioning in sync answer phone calls in an auto toneless voices. one operator answers a call.
"please state your emergency."
"oh my god, my friend's just been shot." a heighten breathing voice answers.
"if victim is robot press 1 if human press 2."
the caller pressed 2
the operator answers.
"please hold." an automatic techno instrumental music of Flight of the Concords The Humans are Dead proceeded for approximately 9 hours before the caller finally hung up.
"please state your emergency."
"oh my god, my friend's just been shot." a heighten breathing voice answers.
"if victim is robot press 1 if human press 2."
the caller pressed 2
the operator answers.
"please hold." an automatic techno instrumental music of Flight of the Concords The Humans are Dead proceeded for approximately 9 hours before the caller finally hung up.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The Train
the train
shutters
swerves
rambles
crumbles,
its insides
smash apart
the wheels
loosen off
broken tracks.
shutters
swerves
rambles
crumbles,
its insides
smash apart
the wheels
loosen off
broken tracks.
Friday, January 1, 2016
A Flash Fiction
crunching snapping gravel walls, plummet above the earth. all that remains of a councilmen's house that was shot in a giant canon. below the newly ploughed green grass hills stands a huddle mass of people screaming revolution. in the distance a ranking rotting warped blunt bladed guillotine hovers over a man pleading for his life. the leader of the mob speaks.
"enough of your prattling, its time for you to punish for all you've done."
"but..." the council man began.
"you have taken our rulers who dictate our every action, imprisoning us in this so called freedom!"
"your mad!" the council man said.
"kill him!" the leader said as the mass of people echoes his words as the blade falls.
"enough of your prattling, its time for you to punish for all you've done."
"but..." the council man began.
"you have taken our rulers who dictate our every action, imprisoning us in this so called freedom!"
"your mad!" the council man said.
"kill him!" the leader said as the mass of people echoes his words as the blade falls.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
One Winter's Morn
A soft
Billowy sound
Moves the pines
Where suspended
Icicles
Sway a tinkling
Merry tune,
As a steady
Falling
Soft
Mushy
Cold glaze
Smothers the forest.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Shut Up and Admire the Art
Criticism: the analysis and judgment of the merits and faults of a literary or artistic work.
this is important in analyzing art to see what's significant or insignificant by our own opinions and to question
why this is? For this reason there is such articles discussing such merits, even i have written some criticism
to write my thoughts on certain matters but though all of this is good and necessary i worry that people do
not take a moment to just look at art and let it speak for itself. rather i fear it is being studied like a
meticulous math equation. For this reason i shall now put some art after this post to look at and see
what it says of itself, i hope you do the same.
this is important in analyzing art to see what's significant or insignificant by our own opinions and to question
why this is? For this reason there is such articles discussing such merits, even i have written some criticism
to write my thoughts on certain matters but though all of this is good and necessary i worry that people do
not take a moment to just look at art and let it speak for itself. rather i fear it is being studied like a
meticulous math equation. For this reason i shall now put some art after this post to look at and see
what it says of itself, i hope you do the same.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Bad Zombie Story Ideas
As i was watching some zombie show the other day i spotted some serious issues in the story as well as poor use of logic. so i decided to write about these poor choices here.
Isolationism
First off, in a lot of these zombie stories, is the constant distrust of human beings, especially when you first meet, as well as fighting among humans,and only trusting a core group. if there ever was a zombie apocalypse, doing this would be as logical as letting zombies roam free while shooting every human being on sight. as Abraham Lincoln once said "A house divided against itself cannot stand." in proof look at the history of the Native Americans. yes for the most part,what happened was white mans fault, but if all tribes united to kick out white man say before the french and Indian war or during. history would be a whole another story but they stayed divided, different tribes fought different sides of the war and you know what happened after. point is, if you stay an isolationist in this zombie world your already dead. what should have been written is someone, group, or form of government uniting all the people to fight off this zombie threat.
Gun Propaganda
Speaking of forms of government there is another issue that happens a lot in these narratives. finding a community taking peoples guns to keep things safe only to be proven wrong by our newly arrived main characters or having zombies invade the place. two words, Zombie Apocalypse why in hell would any community do something like this, your at war with a brainless dead plague and your getting rid of a large army for a small security team (that sounds like the sort of logic are troops should use in battle. THE LAST SENTENCE YOU READ WAS SARCASM) point is they need every armed person they can get and they shouldn't distrust anyone unless there a stupid criminal choosing to still do bad deeds but that's a rare exception and anyways if you point out how this criminal needs to work together with everyone for s(he)'s own survival. they'll help and you'll only need someone to watch over s(he). point is, this kind of story doesn't need to deal with this political issue.and if they still chose to do it they need to execute it in a non preachy way having both points of view on the issue seem to be right.
zombies are the threat not humans in this kind of narrative. i get that you need to have tension from your main characters but you can do that in other ways that are more believable and without personal agendas. Have someone get scared and let fear lead them to do something stupid or in a fight let someone get shell shock, that i can believe it feels authentic.
Gun Propaganda
Speaking of forms of government there is another issue that happens a lot in these narratives. finding a community taking peoples guns to keep things safe only to be proven wrong by our newly arrived main characters or having zombies invade the place. two words, Zombie Apocalypse why in hell would any community do something like this, your at war with a brainless dead plague and your getting rid of a large army for a small security team (that sounds like the sort of logic are troops should use in battle. THE LAST SENTENCE YOU READ WAS SARCASM) point is they need every armed person they can get and they shouldn't distrust anyone unless there a stupid criminal choosing to still do bad deeds but that's a rare exception and anyways if you point out how this criminal needs to work together with everyone for s(he)'s own survival. they'll help and you'll only need someone to watch over s(he). point is, this kind of story doesn't need to deal with this political issue.and if they still chose to do it they need to execute it in a non preachy way having both points of view on the issue seem to be right.
zombies are the threat not humans in this kind of narrative. i get that you need to have tension from your main characters but you can do that in other ways that are more believable and without personal agendas. Have someone get scared and let fear lead them to do something stupid or in a fight let someone get shell shock, that i can believe it feels authentic.
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