Onerous is the Loneliest Number

You Think You Got It Tough




Sept 22 2025

The Daily Dread



gravity we fall
comedy lifts spirits up
it's all emotion


Summer warmth loiters
Not chilly and still humid
Touch and go autumn


Once upon a time
There was some vigor
It's get up and go
Got up and went
Doing the locomotion
Packed up it's bags
With stern stoic rigor
Soon began to spoil
From no refrigeration
But it was too late
To stop the denigration
No amount of chill
Effectualized reinvigoration



one chilly touch will
reinvigorate his stalled
fall to the bottom

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Sept 21 2025

The Daily Dread



Not enough somber
To make it around the block
On twitter splatter



agony induced
via algorithm plots
deceptive exploit


definite maybe
perhaps the closest we'll get
to truthful answers



Phrazez that Payzez

"Tastes like bubbly regret and dirt"

Ghost Champagne - Charlie Jane Anders



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Sept 20 2025

The Daily Dread



another day with
another catastrophe
life in the food chain


carb apocalypse
free infinite pasta bowl
with every order


the A.I. cascade
of nonsense pulls a cartload
of code cooling dope
over the bones of the dead
to where the mirror meets the sky



Experiencing
infinite catastrophe?
Call Cascade Cooling
555-5555
Open 24 hours



A.I. image generated from text of a work van from Cascade Cooling in front of a business.

Sept 19 2025

The Daily Dread



from now on I will
only make life decisions
based on messages
received from bacteria
blooms residing in my gut.



tracking my journey:
the eternal extrusion
into persistence



a social faux pas
an intrusive extrusion
when not requested



reap the memory
a harvest of each time we
made each other glow


time warp in reel time
just this side of eternal
as this term may seem


Objet de Arte

Sept 18 2025

The Daily Dread



lies for a penny
gave misery by the pound
lock stock and barrel


expanded family
or limit family defined
fertile fun house mirror


rise in the morning
on a horse hair stuffed mattress
perfect pony tale

Once I learned to be the algorithm, I saw the whole waxwork facade melt away. No amount of razzle-dazzle frazzle trying to elicit delicious delights to spoon feed down my gob saved the shabby thin A.I. veneer.



Sept 17 2025

The Daily Dread



All together now!
This time all we are saying
Is give peas a chance



experiencing
together alt universe
synthesis smash face



lotus pose calls for
not so subtle joint pain cues
joining me to ground



fabric lotus time
synthesis binds together
subtle corrections


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Spun

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Sept 16 2025

The Daily Dread



original sin
heinous concept of belong
root of all evil



A spark was kindled
With a smile and a hair flip
Once forbidden fruit
Now open to conspire
Consummated lush desire



soft orchid petal
walnut firm and ridged surface
contrast forged delight



reality grift
pick our brains like a walnut
then discard the shell
conspire with the wealthy
to hoard all that ain't nailed down

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Sept 15 2025

The Daily Dread



time to pull the rein
of diabolical reign
vicious viscous rain
ideological spew
drenching us to the marrow

delivering pain
deceptive criminals reign
time to pull the rein


toadies in a row
all queue up to kiss the ring
hopping for more flies


basking in a field
peering through lush blades of grass
Bambi pronking by