
Anthropology NotesThe astronaut came down and afterwardsMore Like This
the world was swollen with rain which, in proper context,
were really words for deliverance and our frailty,
built-in, endemic, was the inevitability of disaster,
or rather,
the events to which those poems allude.
As a story of creation it is entirely plausible that trains exist
only as metaphors in a longer motif about the illusion of destination:
An estrangement of the art from the source trauma,
not unlike a child abandoning God or, paradoxically, a God abandoning a child
Things to fear:
The insurrection of beauty in bad people
Forgetting.
, add word for: lust, leave
Our job is to watch pe

Time Travel for Ex AddictsThe only thing you can take with you is musicMore Like This
And a couple of streets if you have room
Leave the T.V. behind but turned on
You may not bring a watch, digital or otherwise
Nor may you bring the possibility of rain
After dinner get yourself lost
There will be questions. Don't answer any of them
Eventually the voices will start to come together until everything is noise
Next type the name of a young boulevard in the interface
Lie down near that street while it snows and count backwards from 100
You will find yourself in bed but don't worry
it isn't yours
A voice will fall from the sky and say,
Please remain hysterical
in the event of an em

AliensThey have no notion of past or present,More Like This
everything is about oceans.
When they ask for you
it is really a story about seeing the ocean.
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VISITOR #1:
Listen. It is failure of bridges that builds angels.
GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:
Is this the depression
we've all been experiencing?
VISITOR #4:
Please have a seat and forget the edge of that coast,
you were not intended for this distance.
GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:
I believe we're all owed an explanation.
Where is this manifest?
I've never ridden a horse, I am being dreamed about.
VISITOR #1:
You would not believe
the stories redwoods have.
You each get one phone call.
GROC