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Goliath now meme.

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by Diana Morley.

Sanitized, digitized
egg-cartonized into
single cells—

organized automation
running us all so well
glitchiness now frictionless,

but working good vs evil
I’m hungry for a fight—

I need one bad giant
in a closed arena
to spar with me.

Disaster: A Recipe.

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by John Van Pelt. Disaster Serves 4. Ingredients 1 canister conclusions 1 cup foresight 3 cups hubris 1 out-of-date map 1 quart of optimism, clabbered 1 broken timepiece pinch each of perceptivity, reason, history, and care   Directions 1. Do not preheat oven. 2. Jump to 4. 3. Wait, what about the foresight? 4. Conclusions. […]

Special.

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by David Milley. Our mother was a dreadful cook! Coming home from work, she’d open a can of Chef Boyardee, slap it on the stove, and shovel in some sugar, to make it special. Milkshakes, too: milk, sugar, fake vanilla, egg, forked up to a froth. No spices, just pepper from a tin and salt, […]

Capitalism-For-Disasters.

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by Danbert Nobacon.   Current day disasters abound and multiply. The underlying recipe that binds the stew of these concurrent and worsening disasters in common is the current operating system i.e. the omnipresent force that constrains much of our lives, what we know as capitalism. For clarity, the specific capitalism-for-disaster refered to here means, ‘late-stage […]

Love However Shameful It Seems

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by Zhinia Noorian. “Shaikh San’an and the Christian Girl” is the longest story in the Sufi classic, the Mantiq al-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds). This book presents a collection of poetic stories by Farid ad-Din ‘Attar (d. 1221), a renowned Persian poet, a theoretician of mysticism, a Sufi teacher, and a hagiographer. However, the […]

Desire Paths R Us.

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Really, there can’t be a better introduction to the ALL OUT TO SEA issue of EAP: The Magazine than The Ship of Theseus by EAP resident philosopher Bruce E. R. Thompson. He writes about the spirit animating the renewable body. That’s what I think best to focus on as we head into a renewable year. […]

What Makes Life Worth Living.

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My mother is at the end of her life. She’s in hospice care, cared for in a place where she’s lived for many years, near one of my four brothers. When it was obvious to us all that she was beginning her downward journey, she said to me, “I don’t mind what happens next. I […]

Ocean Diplomacy.

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by Benjamin White. The national news will report On US-China relations And both nations are tainted Painted by politics and policies, But on the high seas Ships sail to places distant, And freedom Is consistent with the waves, The sea gulls, and the hulls Of boats making way, And even when the Coast Guard flag […]

The Sea is a Bride – Triolet.

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by Barry Vitcov.   I found the sea waiting for me, an old lover calling from the tide with the rhythmic roar of tympani. I found the sea waiting for me, the roll upon roll of the heavy sea lifting spirits like a waiting bride. I found the sea waiting for me, an old lover […]

In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing.

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by Sean Murphy. We’re going to discover some things. For starters: who was paying attention to the long-suffering flight attendant when she went through the motions of how to go through the motions of dying? We’ll see who screams first, who covers their eyes, and who gives two shits about the well-being of anyone but […]