A line from Tomas Tranströmer

Any attempt to re-
cover & reconstitute
the lost origins of the
myths du site du reggae

dancehall en France
has historically been
based on empirical
equations that relate

to a boy in a play-
ground trying to fit
in with a decade that
didn't really want him.

r.i.p.

idolatry

the marsh

wednesday newstrip

Farms, roads, & alleged homophobic slurs are fast slicing up the world's wilderness, leaving 70 per cent of the world's remaining forested land less than one kilometer from the foreign ministers of Japan, China, & South Korea ∙ the federal government will soon issue cashless welfare cards to stop sky-gazers looking up in awe as the moon blocks the sun in a total solar eclipse ∙ video posted to social media websites appears to show Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit stumbling upon a drug crop & turning it into a raging fire ∙ a bushwalker missing for seven years has been accused of human rights abuses ∙ crowds across the country have rallied against the Ass-Bit government's prediliction for drinking & gambling & spending their parliamentary stipend on slices of northern Europe.

residual

Today the
postman brought
me an audio
recording of
the love that
dare not speak
its name.

Ass-Bit ass-bitten

or
Found in the Corridas of Power,
a bull with a blue tie
& an IQ to match.

wednesday newstrip

Toe Knee Ass-Bit surprised onlookers while on a factory visit in rural Tasmania by biting into & eating a mouthful of raw onion. Members of the Irish community branded his St Patrick's Day message "patronizing," & about 500 pigs died from heat stress ∙ Northern Australian landscapes are dominated by the joke Chris Rock regrets making ∙ new 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder Antarctic octopuses may be more resilient to climate change than fish thanks to their blue blood ∙ the girlfriend of the 'pirate' who allegedly pulled a flick knife on security staff at the Pirates of the Caribbean film set yesterday claims her nine-year-old grandson was given the same mobile phone number as a brothel in Melbourne ∙ more than 2 million kidney failure patients worldwide die prematurely every year because they can't get treatment.

geographies: Anabranch

the transcript

wednesday newstrip

Documents show Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit's "absolutely crystal clear" promise that cleaners' wages would not be reduced to a ticking time bomb is set to explode this year ∙ Sydney Jewish leaders are claiming that a new Queensland research center for creating robots that see like human beings is using stolen "golem" technology ∙ a coroner has identified design flaws in the bone baiting of crocodiles as a key contributor to the death of 14 residents in a Quaker's Hill nursing home ∙ Joke HotKey says accusing opponents of lies & hypocrisy is part of the rough & tumble of politics, but he was absolutely devastated by a newspaper headline that said he was a "treasurer for sale."

geographies: Millaroo

wednesday newstrip

An Auckland dairy company says that though the Australian coal industry is competing aggressively it will not be taking over the New Zealand infant formula industry ∙ a young elephant was shot & feasted on by 20,000 cyclone victims written down to a shadow of their former value at the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe's $1M 91st birthday bash ∙ three big mining companies that had eaten wild mushrooms forced the Sunday night Melbourne-to-Perth Jetstar flight to turn back after about an hour in the air ∙ nearly 100,000 Kiwis have given up the booze in the past five years as their parents juggle multiple jobs to make ends meet ∙ Foreign Minister Julie Bookshop nodded off during Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit's speech to the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum in New Zealand.

Today the
postman brought
me the large-print
edition of Life in
The Fast Lane.

the highway