Strong magic

Posted by Rich Magahiz Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:40:00 GMT

vacuum tubes
round his neck: the Annandale
Shaman

6AG6 Pentode Pendant

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Untitled

Posted by Rich Magahiz Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMT

this scalding brew,
sweet as sin, black as ground
zero

it’s only death… now pick up your feet

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Spring break

Posted by Rich Magahiz Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:01:00 GMT

a dinosaur
brings our drinks –
Club Kaleidaverse

Key West: stuck with my subprime liver

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The other stars

Posted by Rich Magahiz Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:48:00 GMT

Miss Shebang
pouts, she asks “What’s the
antimatter?”

Such keenness from the living ray I met,
That, if mine eyes had turn’d away, methinks,
I had been lost; but, so embolden’d, on
I pass’d, as I remember, till my view
Hover’d the brink of dread infinitude.
Dante Alighieri, tr. Cary

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Charlton Heston memorial scifaiku

Posted by Rich Magahiz Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:52:00 GMT

you’ve gone
far from their stinking paws
and Soylent corp

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The classicist

Posted by Rich Magahiz Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:49:00 GMT

phase 5 terraforming,
on the skull taps
Black Flag

Depression (lyrics NSFW)

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Secret agent moon

Posted by Rich Magahiz Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:56:00 GMT

it was here
moments ago,
check your penumbra

from the Earthlit side some green light blinks

silk wedding gown,
the trim two klicks of
blasting cord

Bob beams (his front tooth is a camera)

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Second Warring States period

Posted by Rich Magahiz Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:47:00 GMT

the old power plant
a sour wind blows
flakes of paint

hold me! prelude to a spore body

Come, love,
to Venus! Mind the
flesh-rending molluscs…

Q
About that title…
A
You want to know what the Second Warring States period is?
Q
Of course.
A
It is a time which postdates the first one or the other first one. As far as I know, it hasn’t happened yet.
Q
But it doesn’t relate to the scifaiku at all, as far as I can tell.
A
You would perhaps prefer this title, then:

The old power plant

the old power plant
a sharp wind blows
flakes of paint

To me, it is part of the reader’s experience to try to bring the title in line with the poem, and the two parts of the scifaiku itself in line with one another, so when one titles a scifaiku with the very same words used in the poem, something is lost. In fact, I would go further and say that it would be better to leave it untitled than to repeat oneself in the title.
Q
You hate that kind of lazy titling.
A
No comment.
Q
So you think there actually is a connection between the weird “Warring States” title and the verse, I guess.
A
To me, it suggests that perhaps such a period of strife and chaos might return, given sufficient inconvenience, and plays against the images of acid precipitation and of worn and peeling paint to give you an idea of what kind of wars one might be able to fight then. Utterly straightforward, it is. Yeesssssss.
Another in a projected series of discussions on poetry.

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Untitled

Posted by Rich Magahiz Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:33:00 GMT

his evil creation… oh, my nose!

He’s a lovely ten-pound specimen and I have nicknamed him “Frank”

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The dog deleted my homework

Posted by Rich Magahiz Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:50:00 GMT

park yourself:
three teracycles
of detention

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Untitled

Posted by Rich Magahiz Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:21:00 GMT

ninety generations
the great craft–
April Fool’s…

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