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Easter eggs in autumn (a poem)

2016/09/07 — Leave a comment

Inspired by the Shiina Ringo DVDs 賣笑エクスタシー [Baishou Ecstasy] and Electric Mole.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged autumn, budokan, cat ears, cat's eyes, chances, clue, code, disguise, ekphrastic, Electric Mole, 賣笑エクスタシー, girl, guitar, kimono, lock, poem, poetry, September 2016, time, 椎名 林檎. Bookmark the permalink.

Before I mail the letter (a poem)

2016/06/07 — Leave a comment

Still plugging away at the editing job, while keeping in mind that I want to get to the post office today before it closes.

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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged chances, curiosity, envelope, June 2016, letter, message, package, perseverance, poem, poetry, rimas dissolutas, troubles. Bookmark the permalink.

About the unwritten letter (a poem)

2016/05/20 — Leave a comment

I almost didn’t get to writing anything yesterday…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged apologies, chances, corrections, erasures, May 2016, pages, poem, poetry, regrets, traps, uncertainty, verbless poem. Bookmark the permalink.

Spam header poem #1 (a poem)

2015/05/16 — Leave a comment

For the last few years, I have been taking screenshots whenever I get spam with interesting headers. This week, I finally printed all of them out. The following poem is composed entirely of spam headers…
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This entry was posted in Writing and tagged chances, education, growth, May 2015, opportunity, poem, satisfaction, sex, spam, spam headers, subject lines. Bookmark the permalink.
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