Sept 27 2025

The Daily Dread



Chilean Sea Bass
Patagonian Toothfish
Brand marketing ploy



it's been so long since
we said so long and yet still
I so long for you



a deep dive
that leads to
scrutiny of
mob motives
ends with
sleeping with
the fishes



See the long low tide
Reveal our murky depths
Needs scrutiny now


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Sept 26 2025

The Daily Dread



Waves crash on the beach
Sonorous background grumble
For raucous gull choir



the walking world day
painful steps toward the goal of
getting home to sit



will history strand
the lifeboat of decency
on blubbery bloat



Cover the pallor
Dapple it with fake spray tan
Soulless wretch shows through



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Sept 25 2025

The Daily Dread



half a walnut shell
of water for fiddleheads
just enough to curl


bound with a ribbon
wrapped in the ties that bind them
couples secret bond



Thursday night caprice
A warm up for the weekend
Full tilt boogie buzz


Slamming the Royal Seal into the melted wax on another proclamation, His Nibs said in a guttural growl. “The only folk dance I am not allergic to is the polka. Others are too similar to my haphazard full bodied gesticulating hand jive which I use to hypnotize people into buying snake oil.


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Sept 24 2025

The Daily Dread



The laws you may flout
Lie, bloviate, and squeal
The poison will out


Before network news
Came Plan 9 from Outer Space
Then came the YouTube



the duality
of the event will arrive
eventually



footsteps behind me
rock of ages barrs my way
just won't cleft for me



Sept 23 2025

The Daily Dread



an ache with each bite
of the apple of knowledge
that some folks chose this


Notice prime bellwether clue
Private armies for the few
A catastrophe for all
Siren song before the fall



Reeling in my prize
Rocking on Michigan waves
Feeling hungover
Replaying the night before
Landing this Coho Salmon



With every false claim
Honking like a strangled goose
The bellwether ache
Reeking like week old salmon
I feel deep down in my gut


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.