Posted by Rich Magahiz
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Ohajiki by chidorian on Zooomr
It was a long line to Customer Service, and the pair in front of me began speaking in urgent tones about how she never wanted a gas grill but only a charcoal brazier (but pronounced it “charcoal brassiere”), when the realization came that we were were not separate in fact but all one, all one.
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:19:00 GMT
gunplay
won’t matter
the tympanum ignores
we always knew
unchecked growth
destroys
camouflaged
tiptoe everywhere
sunlight punishes irresponsibility
hide your children
as instars
emerge
rustling
by coldlight
twice three legs
the manifest mystery
ever remains:
extinction
Posted in horrorku, sequence | Tags hay(na)ku, mirror | no comments
Posted by Rich Magahiz
Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:33:00 GMT
violins to your left
low strings
to the right
raise your baton to cue dust-dimmed suns
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:03:00 GMT
It was when the second lightning bolt struck him that he started to take
notice.
It was always the same - halfway through the third margarita of the
night he started thinking of his mother.
“Oh, just give me that chainsaw,” Father said, just before she noticed
something she hadn’t seen before.
Her moans were getting more distinctive now through the open window,
just when his phone started playing “Edelweiss.” He stood up suddenly
and gave his skull a hard knock on the sill.
If these are fresh dinosaur tracks, she wondered, why does this one have
the imprint of a zipper down the side?
We all knew Cletus was going to die, even though he had been sleeping
with the stage manager.
If this phone doesn’t ring real soon, she thought, it’s going down the
disposal too.
They found the secret long after the fighting had ended, after they had
taken most of the dead slaves from the hold and thrown them overboard,
and long after the flagship sank beneath the oily surface.
Sssst, the iNanny went, until she turned it off.
The two of them were in Ginetta’s waiting to place their orders when he
started in on his theory that all rugs are area rugs. “And Dhurry is
their prophet,” she replied, automatically.
“Florence! Hurry it up, why don’tya, and get your radomes over here
before we all die of thirst!”
The lesions on the dead man’s arms and hands were consistent with
corvid predation.
I was switching stuff over to a new PDA and ran across this year-old file.
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:37:00 GMT
To the Omega
she plights her troth.
So noted.
Posted in scifaiku | Tags social | no comments
Posted by Rich Magahiz
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:48:00 GMT
They say it was flowing groundwater that made these canyons on the surface of Mars, but to me it looks to be the work of a gigantic, malicious child, dragging his or her enormous fingers through a freshly iced cake when a colossal parent was not attending to what was happening, and scooping the confection into a cavernous, rock-crushing, planet-devouring maw.
Except for that part at the top. That does look like groundwater.
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:32:00 GMT
Do
not
bother
to bring a
toothbrush, or a book –
it’ll be over sooner than that –
but you’ll want a camera and a box of postcards.
And when they bring the tray of drinks
and make you sit up,
make a scene!
They made
us
wait.
Virgin employees sit in the cabin of a prototype
Virgin Galactic
SpaceShipTwo spacecraft at the Science Museum on February 14, 2007 in
London, England. The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo is destined to be the
first ever vehicle for space tourism. The SpaceShipTwo will carry six
passengers and two pilots, offering a total flight time of 2 hours.
Around 200 firm reservations have been placed already with projected
flight costs estimated to be $200,000 per passenger.
Propulsion system for hybrid craft blows up
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:33:00 GMT
unlike
us,
she does not
keep it in a
cranium; instead it hangs
in a velvet pouch at her waist where it swings
not far from her dagger hand
and if you ask –
with a smile –
she’ll
show you
The Lucan-no-haiku form is described in a marginal note
here. This one is a slight variation taking a mirrored
2-1-3-4-7-11-7-4-3-1-2 syllable count
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:20:00 GMT
Looking down at him where he sat, slackjawed, perturbed, she slipped off her shoe, ran her foot into the slit pocket of his navy cashmere jacket, painted toenails and the ball of her foot touching the silk lining, jangling his keys and change. “So then, mister,” she whispered, “I believe we were talking about finances.”
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:20:00 GMT
A Vulcan chap touring Myanmar,
Was seized with with the need for Pon Farr.
One hand clutching the wheel,
He reached out to feel
For the mind-melding link to
OnStar.
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Posted by Rich Magahiz
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:02:00 GMT
my ripped heart
you will find northwest of
my ripped heart
Posted in scifaiku, poetry | Tags photo | 1 comment
Posted by Rich Magahiz
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:22:00 GMT
It was part ray gun, part flit gun. Morris held it carelessly. He
didn’t enjoy the fit of his nose filters, either.
Out of the dark came a slap on his cheek. The numb bite of arachnoid
analogue left him little time to aim. Straight to the face!
Unfortunately, she had filters of her own…
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