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A Work Of Friction (a work of fiction) By Ade Sluzky
They told me incredible stories and I did not believe a word of them. I stared at them but gave the impression of someone listening, someone believing, but the inside of my mind wondered if these people were actually aware of how full of shit they really were or whether this level of self delusion…
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Storm Before the Calm by Ade Sluzky
Between the radicals and the refugees Water running out and the rising seas The misinformation in the fog of war The unjust lessons from above the law Do those that hate me for where I stand Take a moment to understand? That fossils fuel impotent screams And bolster bastions to maintain regimes? Do they know…
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The Final Strawman by Ade Sluzky
Zarathustra stepped out of Plato’s cave to face the music of the spheres of influence. He saw straw men building houses of cards. Paper tigers were prowling the silver lining around the clouds. Many hands were making light work whilst too many cooks spoiled the broth. It was going to be like shooting fish in…
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More Tests by Ade Sluzky
”You need to lose some weight and we’re going to have to conduct some more tests.” The sensation of a stone, high-diving down into the pit of my stomach made me feel as pale as I felt I looked. I looked. I was that pale. In the waiting room, at the laboratory, I was underwhelmed…
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I Think I Thunk by Ade Sluzky
I believe in conspiracy theoriesI believe that they existHave I gone mad? That’s what they want you to think. Going to make a tin foil hatA stetson, I thinkOr perhaps a top hat?Or a bowler?A fedora is out of fashion, don’t you think?Choose your hatMake it out of tin foilWear it around radio towersTell people…
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Fart by Ade Sluzky
Regardless of all cultural connotations and reverberations,I just want to say,Fart.It’s a bodily function thingA material/interface,emergent and sharedexperience thingIt’s a conscious knowledgeand knowable, agreeable thing.It’s a fartA pure, plain and simple fart.It carries no leverage.It’s not culturally biasedIt bares no truckNo beefNo anticipatory investmentOf hopeful resolution thingIt’s a fartA self-explanatorySelf definingFartIt existsAnd then it doesn’tBut…