scifaiku

pages ragged
the last book, preserved in pure
nitrogen

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clockwork buddha

clockwork buddha

reverence for life
the robot cultivates
ferrophages
its dermal metropolis
a rusty temple

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inside the worm

Inside The Worm

paying toll
at the segment boundary
last token of her
engraved isopod scute
her portrait age sixteen

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that once gave such a fright

that once gave such a fright


the severed head
of Pumpkin Jack in the ditch
toffees on the lawn
scarecrow at the window
I'll not let him in


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slasher movie aftermath

slasher movie aftermath

legs up to here
where are arms, torsos?

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Calaveras Cownty

Calaveras Cownty

low over moon river
she may have cheated but
Bossie wins her bet

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science-fiction tanka

another message
writes itself on your eyeballs
“50% off”
need to update cortexware
again this morning

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Scifaiku

distant suns
wan light and milky shadows
leave me cold

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tanks 4 the females

one thin dime

it walks it talks
it crawls on its belly
like a reptile
that vaporizes tanks
it wants our women


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scifaiku

crimson mollusks
thrive in manufactured air
red snails in the sunset

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scifaiku

heroism's dead
picking up the pieces
of marble man

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