geographies: Chillagoe 2

wednesday newstrip aka sans comment

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious private schools is being investigated for animal cruelty after footage emerged of students tackling & wrestling sheep & rams during a rugby training camp ∙ a Virginia woman has been charged with animal cruelty after Loudoun County authorities alleged she inhumanely killed 12 to 15 chickens weekly for ritual sacrifices ∙ China denies exporting human meat to African supermarkets ∙ Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would renegotiate America’s role in the U.N. global climate accord ∙ Texas teen shoots, kills three-year-old stepson for jumping on bed ∙ NRA endorses Donald Trump for president.

a campaign speech

The Holy Sonnets unDonne

The Holy Sonnets unDonne is now available from The Red Ceilings Press as a downloadable pdf.

"I did Donne in High School. Redone at University. Thought after that that I'd be done with Donne. But no. Discovered that Donne is one of those precursor poets who, like W. C. Williams & Yeats & Apollinaire, I keep coming back to. The Holy Sonnets unDonne is a belated homage, a small sequence that uses the poems by Donne as a starting point to track how things change across four centuries yet still remain as metaphysical as ever."

wednesday newstrip

Don't read on if you're yet to watch the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest & want it to be a surprise ∙ pooches large & small came under fire on Sunday over blackface photos ∙ Pram Minister Malcontent Turnipball says new glucose monitoring technology is life-changing for five men who allegedly planned to get to Indonesia by boat so they could join Islamic State in Syria ∙ China has denounced interpretations of its military operations in the East contained in a a secret pact carving up the floundering Ottoman Empire into spheres of British & French interest ∙ a doggie daycare business owner is furious after council demanded almost $100,000 before she could open her new 2016 BMW X5 xDrive 40e ∙ Last Name should be a hidden field. Please delete if you are a real person.

the tunnel

caprice

wednesday newstrip aka the vanishing planet

a waiting

wednesday newstrip

There was much that was familiar about Donald Trump's first big foreign policy address. He vowed to pardon himself for murder, joked about his penis, said he would kill his own children if he caught them with drugs, & took a new swipe at Australia over its policy on the South China Sea ∙ on Wednesday, Tinder announced it would be unveiling yet another group-dating feature to its dating & hookup app: more than 100 wild horses mustered from the central volcanic plateau in New Zealand's North Island are today beginning their journey to new homes around the country ∙ the National Health Performance Authority report says fans have come across a major continuity error in the first episode of Game of Thrones' latest season—some Australian hospitals are spending twice as much as others to treat patients ∙ a three-way collision between spiral galaxies that has created a giant supermassive black hole with a mass three billion times that of the sun sounds very much like the insane man who told a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday: “Do I look like a president? How handsome am I?” ∙ a powerful Saudi prince has said that the kingdom is not ready to allow women to drive.

Today the
postman brought
me a lifesize full-
color effigy of
Donald Trump. I
put it in the back-
yard to keep the
fruit bats at bay.
The plan backfired.
So much orange
that the fruit bats—
dare I say it?—
went bananas &
have started
arriving in ever-
increasing numbers.

skyline

Issue forty-one of Otoliths is live

Otoliths salutes May Day once again with its own Internationale, a multi-country list of contributors in issue forty-one, the southern autumn issue.

Come celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the journal with Pam Brown, Jesse Glass, Philip Byron Oakes, Marco Diotallevi, Travis Cebula, Charles Borkhuis, Kyle Hemmings, Daniel Y. Harris, Jack Galmitz, Mark Melnicove, Michael Allen, Raymond Farr, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Texas Fontanella, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Archana Kapoor Nagpal, Pete Spence, Joel Chace, AG Davis, Márton Koppány, Sanjeev Sethi, Martin Law, Gheorghe Marian Neguțu, Niloofar Fanaiyan, Tomás Sánchez Hidalgo, Andrew Brenza, Luisa-Evelina Stifii, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Baron, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Tim Suermondt, Scott MacLeod, John W. Sexton, Andrew Topel, Francesco Aprile, Catherine Vidler, Olivier Schopfer, Lakey Comess, Louise Landes Levi, Richard Kostelanetz, bruno neiva, Hugh Schwarz, Timothy Pilgrim, Billy Cancel, Cecelia Chapman, Amelia Dale, sean burn, Zachary Scott Hamilton, Bill DiMichele, Javant Biarujia, Valeria Sangiorgi, Steve Dalachinsky, Charles Freeland, Michael Prihoda, Bobbi Lurie, Glen Armstrong, Jeff Harrison, Martin H. Levinson, Carol Stetser, Christopher Barnes, hiromi suzuki, sutcliffe lovingood, Edward Kulemin, Laurent Grison, Ana Prundaru, Clara B. Jones, Marco Giovenale, William Garvin, Stephen Nelson, Aidan Coleman, Rebecca Eddy, Bob Heman, Annette Plasencia, Bogdan Puslenghea, Carla Bertola, Tom Beckett, Alberto Vitacchio, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Kit Kennedy, Owen Bullock, J. D. Nelson, Brendan Slater, John Pursch, Ginny O'Brien & Michael Basinski, Matthew Carbery, Karl Kempton, Seth Howard, Sal Randolph, Gian Luigi Braggio, Robert Lee Brewer, Shloka Shankar, Shloka Shankar & Bill Waters, Tony Beyer, Marcia Arrieta, Tim Wright, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Michael Brandonisio, Eric Hoffman, Reijo Valta, & Katrinka Moore.

Enjoy!

taproot

a home on a range

wednesday newstrip

A video has been released showing huge flames erupting from methane gas on the surface of a woman in a wheelchair in Queensland, Australia ∙ following the discoveries of seven tiny teeth from an ancient monkey that made a 100-mile trek across the ocean between North & South America & a giant, fossilized tooth of an ancient killer whale in Beaumaris Bay, every Australian child will be eligible for subsidized dental care under an ambitious new Turnipball government plan ∙ New Zealanders & their pets have consumed more than 600 tonnes of seafood sourced from a Thai conglomerate condemned for its use of slave labor, including the locking of indentured laborers in cages ∙ the U.S. Justice Department said it has withdrawn a request to force Apple to reveal data from a cellphone linked to millions of low-income adults congregating at a shopping centre in country New South Wales.

K-dash

Note #1 for a treatise

Today the
postman brought
me a pamphlet
describing the ways
in which erectile
dysfunction can
be a frightening
thing if left un-
treated. It made
me stiff with fear.

conditioned

In the Delta, one letter is sacred

wednesday newstrip

The Leap Manifesto is a document that calls for a radical restructuring of the next GTA title from Rockstar as Canada swiftly moves toward ending the use of fossil fuels ∙ Australian doctors have issued a warning about swaddling infants, after a study indicated the popular calming method could lead to disappointingly quick intercourse later in life ∙ when massive stars die, they sometimes go supernova — exploding in incredible bursts of energy which means Nova Scotia Power no longer has to run its Cape Breton biomass plant around the clock to produce electricity ∙ a 30-year-old-man has been charged for driving a motorized beer cooler while drunk ∙ This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Video will play in 5 seconds.

The Art of Living

The orange people
used to be every-
where. Now only
a few scattered centers
are left. All small,
except, of course, for
Donald Trump, the
center of the universe,

with his swollen head
& disconnected brain.
The body transformed
by a business suit; but his
face still stained from the
clothes he wore before.

wednesday newstrip

Japanese satellite Astro-H seems to have been damaged by an equipment failure & not by a collision with tens of thousands of students, as proposed by initial theories ∙ Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron warned Western leaders on Friday that the Islamic State plans to use drones to spray nuclear material over Western cities in order to turn people gay ∙ a leading newspaper has reported that an unnamed country's lawmakers are considering laws that would enforce the death penalty for people who show a lack of interest in social media ∙ premature babies across Victoria are set to benefit from a new online screening tool which will check for space debris ∙ Greek authorities are gearing up to send hundreds of failed asylum seekers back to Turkey as part of a controversial EU migrant deal that has been dubbed "absolutely illegal" by a senior United Nations official.

constraint

elephant(l)ine

The Elephant in the (Next) Room

The Celebean Herd

wednesday newstrip

It's one of ancient Egypt's greatest mysteries, but now the final resting place of Madonna's past relationships may finally have been found, in the room beyond King Tut's tomb ∙ new photographs appear to show a clump of fecal material from Donald Trump circling a young star ∙ security in Belgium remains at its second highest level after cruise-ship passengers on a luxury two-week voyage around the South Pacific were struck down by gastro ∙ Cubans are brimming with a combination of excitement & trepidation as the latest preview build of Windows 10, with some features that are high on the wish lists of developer "insiders," prepares to land in Cuba on Sunday evening ∙ half a century after their leaders dismissed good manners as a bourgeois cultural affection, China's new elite are flocking to Western-style finishing schools to be tutored in politeness & how to serve British afternoon tea.

Today the
postman brought
me a maelstrom.
I got
sucked

.

Ludovicanus does Deutsche Disney

Wink: I'm looking for scientific papers / books on Disney (especially with regard to gender / gender roles). About tips I would be very happy. : Hug:

I want my undergraduate work like writing about the representation of the female gender role, probably by a comparison of the films Sleeping Beauty & Maleficent. I wanted only to Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs & The Ice Queen - Completely unabashed write, but since my supervisor said that I should come up with a good reason why exactly the two movies. They were extremely successful & were therefore seen by many children unfortunately not enough there. As a comparison of the different representations of the characters from Sleeping Beauty might be justified better. A few books I have, however, is a bit thin.

*

The work has been completed, graded and defended orally. Who wants to read time, can send me a message, I will send then a Dropboxlink to work as a PDF. :-)

You wrote in the short time your Diss ?! : dd

: Giggle: ne, as far as I am not. If the Bachelor thesis: Laughing Until Diss it is far ...

but Warste still fast. Here is estimated to half a year for.

What rating would it?

In the note there are two numbers that are also used for programming in the computer language. ;)

Komische mixture. How was the Teilnotefür work. That you should but out with the report.

: Jump: jump: top: Congratulations and super interesting topic

wednesday newstrip

The Ohio primary has become a battle for the soul of the Republican Party since a Chinese official put forward a novel plan for Woody Island, a tiny, tropical, & very much contested speck in the South China Sea ∙ chaos reigned on the streets of our major cities overnight after Federal MP Clive Palmer refused to give any guarantees about the future of 550 employees at his north Queensland nickel refinery ∙ U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump & his partner, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, can still enjoy the Murray River this long weekend, despite the blue-green algae outbreak ∙ Sen. Marco Rubio has arrived home for repairs after running aground in Antarctica, railing against 'those stupid people who developed tools with which to slice & mash their food, meaning our ancestors needed to chew much less.'

TYPHOON

Today the
postman brought
me a man who'd
lost his leg to a
crocodile. "Which
one?" I asked.
"Can't tell," he
said. "You've seen
one croc, you've
seen them all."

after escher

wednesday newstrip

Britney Spears strips down to just her towel & reshapes Mars, causing major changes in the red planet's weight & orientation ∙ Madonna's outrageous outfits have shaped the music & fashion worlds but the Obama administration remains split over backing requirements ∙ Prim Minister Malformed Turnipball has failed to endorse a pledge made by the Attorney-General to hold a same-sex marriage plebiscite by the end of 2016 ∙ the edgy-looking C-HR sub-compact crossover that debuted in production form at the Geneva motor show on Wednesday is set to reach these shores in early 2017, but will its decision to wear the current New Zealand flag as a cape hold any sway in the midst of the flag referendum?

chitinous

sigils

transference

wednesday newstrip

It's Oscars time again —and we're bringing you all you need to know about best actor award nominee, the 1.8-liter Atkinson-cycle petrol four producing 72kW/142Nm, series parallel hybrid system with Ni-MH batteries and electric motor generators ∙ an elderly dementia sufferer who crashed her car & was missing for four days in remote rural New Zealand told her family a crowdfunding campaign to hire God saved her ∙ the long-rumored iPhone with 4-inch screen & faster chip, & a next-generation iPad Pro, has signed a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) agreement with Veterans Administration, which will allow it to market its innovative, non-invasive bladder ∙ the Joint Facility at Pine Gap — the spy station at the center of fascination & consternation in the Australia-United States alliance — has developed a new version of its humanoid robot which can walk in snow, pick up objects, & stand up to intense scrutiny by oversight committees without giving any information away.

at present: tense

wednesday newstrip

The lip gloss has come off Prim Minister Malformed Turnipball's countenance now that the honeymoon period resulting from his usurpation of the top jibe in Australian politics has passed ∙ a man looks at a television screen showing an image of Kim Jong Un as the search continues for a teen mum who couldn't look after her “beautiful” three-day old boy so left him on the doorstep of a NSW home ∙ sixteen passengers were escorted from a Jetstar plane at Melbourne Airport last night for bringing a brown-bag lunch every day for a week ∙ Australians who believe security agencies can protect them from a 106-year-old woman waving her cane & breaking into a jig as she is introduced to the Barack Obama & the First Lady are living in dreamland, a prominent military strategist warns.

travelogue

against indolence

wednesday newstrip

The United States is urging Kanye West & Taylor Swift to quit firing at each other as reports of fresh violence between the two parties threaten their efforts to counter Islamic State ∙ the general manager of a storage facility where a woman was stuck in a lift for fourteen hours overnight has called out droves of masked & beaded citizens in Beaufort for publicly gaslighting National Condom Day in the lyric of their latest release ∙ physicists celebrate confirmation of Albert Einstein's last major prediction & now it's time to give Ruby Rose the undivided attention she deserves.

A Star of the Sea

wednesday newstrip

Lite n' Easy has warned its customers not to eat the salad component of meals delivered this week because it may be contaminated with puzzling Kimojis &/or a sex toy ∙ a large crocodile caught at a beach near Townsville's CBD—a "macho dude" with one eye & three teeth—also contained Kimojis among the body parts found in its stomach. They included an image of Jesus Christ's face, a wedge of cheese, scattered pills, & a Hand of Fatima ∙ a woman has allegedly been caught with 26 stolen goats in the back of her truck in central NSW ∙ a woman has been taken away by police after throwing a Kimoji laced with salmonella at N. Z. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce during a news conference at Waitangi.

HOB

Today the
postman brought
me a pièce de
résistance. Just
the one—I'm
on a diet.

oboe

wednesday newstrip

Opposition Leader Ball Shortened says Pram Minister Malcontent Turncoatabull should show he is still a conviction politician & allow a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage instead of spending $160 million on an "opinion poll" ∙ former entertainer & convicted sexual predator Rolf Harris has reportedly told friends & family he plans to release a comeback album called Justice For All ∙ Australia's national greenhouse gas emissions are set to keep rising well beyond 2020 on current trends, with the projected growth rate one of the worst in the developed world, a new analysis has found ∙ one in 10 Australian university graduates is semiliterate, according to a new OECD report. More alarming for Britain, where that number is apparently about one in five.

positional play

Issue forty of Otoliths is out

Issue forty of Otoliths, the southern summer, 2016 issue, is now live. It's brought to you by the letter E — that gives you a wide range of superlatives to choose from. I'm going for Exceptional. & Early.

In the issue you'll find Steve Dalachinsky's long sequence as collage; Emma Smith's wonderful paintings; Karl Kempton's remarkable 30-image Rune 12: Dream of the Cross; plus plays, essays, collage, prose poetry, pidgin poetry, other prose, other poetry, photographs, paintings, drawings, animated gifs, as well as some things that cannot be categorized, from a remarkable cast of creators — Susanna Lakner, Philip Byron Oakes, Sheila E. Murphy, Jack Galmitz, Richard Kostelanetz, Bill Wolak, Kyle Hemmings, Jim Meirose, Pete Spence, Marco Giovenale, Jim Leftwich, John Crouse, John M. Bennett, Louise Landes Levi, Sanjeev Sethi, Craig Cotter & Lan Yuan-Hung, Owen Vince, Steve Timm, Raymond Farr, Pat Nolan, Olivier Schopfer, Jared Chipkin, Joel Chace, Diana Magallón, Mark Cunningham, Colin Campbell Robinson, Martin Edmond, Chris Wells, David Adès, Allen Forrest, Christopher Crew, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Melanie Dunbar, Sabine Miller, Kirsten Kaschock, Bobbi Lurie, Willie Smith, Anne-Marie JEANJEAN, Joshua Baird, dan raphael, Susan Laura Sullivan, Scott MacLeod, Thomas M. Cassidy, Dennis Vannatta, Heath Brougher, Lakey Comess, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Laurel L. Perez, Patrick Cahill, Darren C. Demaree, Jesse Glass, Anne Gorrick, Shataw Naseri, Francesca Jurate Sasnaitis, Joe Milford, Shawn Haggerty, Valeria Sangiorgi, J. Crouse, sean burn, Jeff Harrison, Alberto Vitacchio, Vernon Frazer, Mark Russell, Charles Freeland, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Felino A. Soriano, hiromi suzuki, John Pursch, Carol Stetser, Andrew Taylor, Stephen C. Middleton, PT Davidson, M. J. Iuppa, Erik Blagsvedt, nick nelson, Shloka Shankar, Howie Good, Joe Balaz, Ric Carfagna, Michael Brandonisio, Cherie Hunter Day, Clara B. Jones, Tony Beyer, Carla Bertola, Susan Connolly, Volodymyr Bilyk, Anne M Carson, Stephen Nelson, Bob Heman, Michael David Conduit, Katrinka Moore, Ian Gibbins, Carey Scott Wilkerson, J. D. Nelson, Thomas O'Connell, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, David Jalajel, Lucas Smith, Marilyn Stablein, Seth Howard, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Marty Hiatt, Deepika Chauhan & Angad Arora, & Tim Wright.

Enjoy!

Today the
postman brought
me a pasta
maker. My heart
gave out —
I'd asked for
a pacemaker.

concern

Since your dancing
delights me
I







will
honor you
with this arabesque.

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wednesday newstrip

Deposed Australian Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit will face a disciplinary hearing over a botched repair of the famous golden mask of King Tutankhamun ∙ all but one of Australia's state premiers & chief ministers have signed a declaration calling for a crack down on gay conversion therapists who claim they can "cure" homosexuality ∙ scores of medical experiments on mysterious, invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets or hazelnuts are being conducted in secret at a number of Sydney hospitals & universities ∙ a new report suggests the reason most early extraterrestrial lifeforms would have been struggling to stay alive on Earth may be because a rapidly changing climate wiped out the 'lumps' in the thin gas that lies between the stars in our galaxy ∙ an apparent kidney transplant from a pig to a baboon will attempt to stand for parliament at Australia's next federal election.

ex / change

wednesday newstrip

The federal government is reportedly considering two major options for changing Australia's tax system, but only one includes increasing the rate of self-harm among asylum seekers in offshore & onshore Australian detention centers ∙ a cell phone game which promoted the killing of Aboriginal people has been removed from app stores ∙ which Apple Watch model, size, material, color, & strap should you buy given that small cars are set to make a comeback in 2016? ∙ rats born with an inherited condition that leads to blindness have had their eyesight improved, thanks to a botched drug test at a private clinic in western France ∙ it looks like an eight-legged cross between a pig & a bear but a tardigrade is in fact a crash involving a Smart car & a bus in London Road, Enfield.

Today the
postman brought
me a package
from the Amelia
Earhart Foundation
in Nigeria purporting
to contain A. E.'s
last words embel-
lished on a vellum
scroll & encased
within a container
made of metal from
the Lockheed Electra
in which she made
her last flight.

geographies: Toonpan

t in c

lemon, lime, & bitters

wednesday newstrip

The Australian sharemarket plunged to a 2½ year low in response to the shock news that David Bowie had died shortly after 7am ∙ MTV Australia has been labelled 'trash' after posting a racist tweet requesting “English subtitles” for Latina actresses Eva Longoria & America Ferrera when they presented a Golden Globes award ∙ cookies are used on this site to serve more sex attacks to you & improve your experience ∙ the founder of an infamous Chinese cracking forum, 3DM, has said that pirated games containing the widely available & cancer-causing supplement chromium may all but disappear within two years.

A line from David Bowie

Now that the Esterházy
family are offering a
4 inch stiletto heel in
aromas of ripe red plum,

clove, or coffee, the
disease rate has risen
massively. The vanilla
version—eye liner by

urban decay set off by in-
tricate stencil patterns in
substantial leather from
Wenzhou Jinke Light In-

dustry—is a beauty editor's
favorite way to add value
to treatment media. We were
touring the Doge's Palace &

admiring the institutional
applications of a standing
cinema whose hilt was coated
with petroleum jelly to give

off moisture on dry days
so you don't have to wait
for the salt to set. Sitting
at your desk is killing you.

RIP

found

monaural

Car_apace

wednesday newstrip

Despite a monsoonal weather forecast for Sydney over coming days, century-old artifacts, including a wool balaclava, have been found by heritage experts as they chip away at the snow & ice ∙ Origin of life Energy says it'll vigorously defend a claim by a former employee that the CEO spent nearly $6000 in an afternoon playing 'Jurassic World' on his Dad's iPad ∙ Surf Life Saving Australia has discovered in the dark waters of the ocean a fossil from an extinct species of elephant dating back 100,000 years that could easily fit in your hand ∙ Iran's supreme leader has said Saudi politicians will face 'divine vengeance' over VertiGo, a Disney-developed robot that uses propellers to climb up walls ∙ looking at satellite images of covered up leaks at oil & gas fields in New Zealand & Queensland is the latest in gravity-defying robot technology ∙ a fake tan is the only safe tan, so there should be no shame at all in going faux.

Today the
postman brought
me an already ex-
pensive castle in
the Pyrenees. If
if I'd added the
optional extra of
the giant bird
found in those
Magritte paintings
it would have cost
me an arm & a leg
on top of a basic
price I can barely
afford. & since Ma-
gritte is dead, I don't
trust the vendor's
guarantee that the
artist will paint
any missing limbs
back on me just
like he did to the
model in Attempting
the Impossible.

I could only hope

Recently I found a poet running around a grocery store parking lot, & I went through the steps of trying to find her owner. This has not been the first time I've tried to reunite a lost poet with their owner so it got me thinking. I see posts on facebook all the time of people who've found a poet & don't know what to do, so I figured I would throw this instructable together, & hopefully it will help reunite more lost poets with their owners.

Step 1: Approach with Caution

If you see a lost poet on the street & you are good enough to want to help them, approach with caution. Not all poets are friendly, & not all are vaccinated. Make sure you read the body language of the poet & make sure you approach slowly. Always let the poet sniff your hand before trying to touch them.

If the poet is injured, take them to the nearest vet immediately.


Step 2: Check for Tags

Once you have the lost poet, check the tags. Hopefully the owner has tags on the poet, & those tags have survived whatever the poet has gone through since being lost.


Step 3: Check for a microchip

If the poet doesn't have tags, the next thing you can check for is a microchip.


Step 4: Post that you found this poet everywhere!

If the poet doesn't have tags or a microchip the next best chance you have of finding the owner is spreading the word.

When people are looking for their lost poets they will check a variety of places.

Craigslist

If you post on craigslist, be very careful. If anyone asks you for money it's probably a scam. Always ask for proof of ownership. If this is truly the owner, they will have some sort of proof including pictures, vet records or paperwork from when they adopted/bought the poet.

Facebook

If you have a facebook account, post that you found a poet & ask your friends to share. When I posted it got shared 300 times! Post on pages or groups that are designed for lost & found poets. For example "Lost & Found Poets Washington State." Again, if someone contacts you, ask for proof of ownership & be wary of anyone who asks for money.

Local shelter (Humane Society, ASPCA, etc)

Often times if someone has lost their poet they will contact the local shelter. They generally have databases of lost & found poets.

Local Veterinarians

If the person who lost their poet is local it's likely that their vet is local as well. You can call the vet with a description of the poet & they may recognize them.

If you still don't hear from the owner it's time to take the next step.


Step 5: Take the poet to a local shelter

Do some research & find a no-kill shelter.

The shelter will have some sort of protocol. At the shelter where I took the poet I found they hold them for 10 days for the owner to come forward, & then put them up for adoption.

Hopefully the owner will come forward, & if not, hopefully the poet will be adopted. Take comfort in knowing you did everything you could.

Today the
postman brought
me a walking
frame. I
couldn't keep
up with it.

collegiate

worse than

The Productivity Commission is calling for changes to weekend penalty rates for Indonesian terrorists arrested in a series of raids over a year ago ∙ a government-run newspaper warned that a boomtown in southern China would run out of space to dump the waste left behind from the 2015 Miss Universe pageant ∙ a giant 350kg saltwater crocodile has made an impressive journey back home after being featured in an anti-marijuana campaign ∙ a man has taken to social media to seek support to form a stable government after Miss World New Zealand's haka performance broke the traditional two-party dominance ∙ the USA has reinstated a tax break on a toxic algae that is deadly to dogs & could be harmful to hospitality & retail workers.

treacled

Ten years

since I first noted this
& it still applies.

apathy, n. Indolence of mind.

embolism

wednesday newstrip

The Federal Court has forced the makers of Nurofen to pull a range of painkillers from chemists & supermarkets around the country after finding that a number of products falsely claim to target Hello Barbie, a Wi-Fi-enabled plaything who promises to be "just like a real friend" ∙ a man claiming allegiance to Islamic State is accused of hurling eggs & tomatoes at Kendall & Kylie Jenner's Sydney fashion event ∙ talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was spotted purchasing international carbon credits ahead of her exclusive live show in Auckland on Wednesday ∙ three-quarters of California's paroled sex offenders previously banned from taking power walks up Auckland's Mt Eden now face no restrictions after the state changed its policy in response in response to a court ruling.

octor

why / does it / happen like this?

Each day she
hoped the
bus


would
arrive before
the suicide bomber.

swansong

Today the
postman brought
me a punching
bag in the like-
ness of Donald
Trump. I'm
thinking about
sending it back.
a + b – a = b:
I've done the
maths. If you
knock the shit
out of a shithead
you're left with
just the head. &
who wants to
be left with a
head like that?

patterns

wednesday newstrip

National Australia Bank chief executive says the lender will improve its return on equity following the discovery of the severed head of a pig dumped in a toilet near a mosque at the University of Western Australia ∙ thanks to the help of gravitational lensing first proposed by Albert Einstein as part of his General Theory of Relativity, the retail sale of raw apricot kernels is prohibited from today ∙a survivor has told a royal commission he overheard Cardinal George Pell joking about paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale "rooting boys again" more than a decade before Ridsdale was convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse ∙ convoys of cars honked their horns throughout the night & dancers moved to salsa beats blaring out of speakers stacked in plazas under the moonlight after New Zealand was named the most ignorant developed country in the world.

Today the
postman brought
me a Caliphate
safe house in
Syria. "What's
this?" I said. "I
asked for an
RAF Tornado
jet." "Don't worry,"
said the postman.
"I've leaked the co-
ordinates. There'll
be a bomber along
very very soon."

is this what it's come to?

wednesday newstrip

A Melbourne youth has boasted online that he snubbed federal agents who tried to recruit him because of his ties to a Coca-Cola truck currently on a national tour of England in the lead up to December 25 ∙ paramedics say a man whose throat was pierced by a bullhorn as he tried to wrestle a steer to the ground is lucky it missed the hidden chamber, which may be the last resting place of the lost Queen Nefertiti ∙ the teen terrorist who killed a police worker in Sydney declares the tyranny of political correctness is stifling an examination of Islam’s role in the retrospective of works by British art duo Gilbert & George due to hit Australian shores for the first time ∙ the web site upon which links to new forensic techniques are displayed may receive vital blood vessels when readers click on the links.