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the body of a 43 year old man was found early Sunday morning, he died in his Irricana home, emergency services arrived on scene after neighbors (12/06/2023)

a distinctly ghoulish cry

of a pained dumbwaiter, 

held on high

Pushkin-backed

mournful howls

as I echo thru

a sickly ward

that wears my name: 

flain heroes hung

all the same. 

 

damned .

doomed .

 

drams of oily wick

sweat soaked and

fevered with a caffeine drip

fine-toothed powders, taken softly

solemnly

in the study where I died alone

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II

As the standard of technology increases

The standard of humanity falls

I’m not sure there is an app for that.

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