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2026 SYLLABLES IN LONDON [2026]: 2026 syllables composed while staying in Earl's Court, London from Feb. 1-8, 2026 Mode: >.75

2650 SYLLABLES OF AUTHENTIC REFLECTION [2026]: These nearly 3,000 syllables cut to the deepest parts of my life. They're basically my autobiography. Nothing else could be more important about my experience on this planet than what's expressed in these approximately 2,650 syllables. Mode: >.75

THE WORLD DIVIDES INTO FACTS [2025]: Reimi and Buddy share what can only be deemed God-given honest opinions that they have every right to express on their trip to East Asia. Then Reimi and her sister Nikke take in an anonymous French Mannerist's painting. Finally, Reimi shares with Buddy a particularly noteworthy month-long dip into insanity her sister Nikke recently endured. Mode: >.75 | Physical Copy

KOREATOWN BOK CHOY [2025]: Jo Yu-Ri hires this well-endowed Greek demigod named Priapus to help cultivate her bok choy in Midtown Manhattan, but he's kind of promiscuous? Is that an issue? Or do her and her friend Araqi fundamentally misunderstand the nature of numbers? Mode: >.75

THE MADNESS OF A CLOUD [2025]: Cloud Strife spends a couple nights getting shitfaced at 7th Heaven with Barrett, Tifa, and Aerith. You know, just shooting the breeze... Mode: >.667 | Physical Copy

$14.28 IS MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN $14.00 [2023]: John Hawkes rightfully noted the superfluous nature of plot, character, setting, and theme. In addition, Symeon The New Theologian's The Divine Eros was certainly an epic poem. Mode: >.667

METROPOLIS + ISOSCELES [2021]: Adam Metropolis and Larry Isosceles, two moderately opinionated Greek theologians, share their thoughts on the true nature of the number 1.99999 repeating and various theories of the so-called Western world. Mode: >.667 | Physical Copy

MECHANISM & DIALOGUE [2025]: A long narrative poem consisting solely of spoken dialogue by Ingo S, an adroit remote viewer, and the entities (a school bus sized orb, floor fan, and a tic tac shaped "UAP") he encounters during his various out of body sojourns. (Mode: Fibonacci 8th Interval; 34-55 syllables per line)

12 TONES OF TUMULT [2023]: Two MUFON investigators investigate a strange series of incidents involving microtonal pianos. (Mode: =TEXTSPLIT(A2," ",".",TRUE,1," "))

OTHER WORKS

FEELINGS COME FROM GAIN OF FUNCTION LABS [2024]: (4) suites of lyric poems written to the tune of drinking Mezcal straight on foot in the neighborhood.

KEVIN O'LEARY VOTED FOR JILL STEIN [2025]: 10 lyric poems delving into a variety of topics, including whether or not Kevin O'Leary voted for Jill Stein in the 2024 US Presidential Election.

DEMO DEMISES IS ALL BOTTLED UP. [2009]: Demo Demises, Jimmy Ends, and The Expiration Dates (Now, Never, Whenever, The Right Time, Of Old Age) spend an afternoon at The Mercurial Because, where some believe Demo to be bottled up.