Things I don’t do anymore

 

Bear the importunities of predators whose talons
grab hold of debts from failed regimes

Toss darts at the wigs of jurists
at the assays of falsified denouements

Dispense solipsisms to
fissures in the civic realm

 

And what of the others?

Do they still extend their excitatory morbidities
to the impossible constructs of an emerging polity?

Do they think they know
the granules from the next turn of the mill?

Andy Oram
July 21, 2026

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