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THE WOUND WITH SIX HOLES

I paid them handsomely to smuggle me across the border in a pig carcass of some mystical implication, and there I was, the pig’s head still cowled over my own, lurching horribly around an apartment like anyone else on a Tuesday night. 

I toggled from flat surface to flat surface on the hunt for a trigger to an appetite, finding many, pulling none. 

I spent those years learning to play instruments inaudible to the human ear, although I took regular breaks to spiral into madness. And then one day my prayers such as they were were answered and a crow descended from the gods’ vertiginous perch and prised an eye from my skull and at long last, responsibility achieved, I was able to show my eye patched face at the grocery store for the first time since the Post. 

Of course I raised the eye patch like a gangplank to reveal the moldering nothing behind it to quiet irritating children on public transit.  

There’s nothing anyone can say to me anymore mostly because I wouldn’t understand it if they did which they don’t. 

You might remember me: I’m the one who goes down and howls at the power station every sunrise hoping to trick it into admitting it can hear me. 

I know you can hear me. You can repeat it verbatim. they’ll still say you got it from AI.  


HISTORY ON HORSEBACK

Everybody wants to know how much I admire Falun Gong for their contributions to the field of Hermetics and I’m happy to tell them all about it.

Nothing is as it was and soon enough it wouldn’t even be that. 

Like and subscribers on that side of the ocean will ask you for things that have never occurred to you before; don’t get me wrong, it’s people from there but expats too—expats especially.

Terry Schiavo was traded midway through the season for your information and it’s not her fault her contact was exorbitant 

Paul Revere was English and so were the people he was warning… he simply narrated what he saw—and that’s all you can ask of X person where X = Paul Revere

I’m not subscribed to HISTORY ON HORSEBACK but at the same time this is America’s story


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