3 December 2023
22 December 2023
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13 November 2024 rejected for Westerly 69.2
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and how in the sense of accumulation, human accumulation, legitimate as in the sense of wants, wantings, necessity to go round every corner plunge into the green the biosphere now bionic in that terrifying sense of the word one word, piled upon another forever (in our horizon) but truly now word world that once was fructifying original spare a flute near a mouth a hard and hollow log struck by a hand before the music of the earth was possible or the music of the plangent ocean before the great hypothetical musicians played and played to perfection until their subtlety was destroyed by that cramping finger dystonia and agriculture made us possible and wars science sport glory effect across time and space billions of lives each now with its own psychology and opinion silently to approach it and there is no turning back one does not see the saint upon the pillar toppling by degree