Category Archives: Paradise

Latter-day variant of an older story

“Can I tempt you with an apple?” Eve said to Eve in the devastated forest, in which neither Adam nor the snake had survived. This was their last apple, and neither knew what tomorrow would bring. – Niebla ( © … Continue reading

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Guided towards the eye by breasts and roses

I walk across a spill of objects on bare chafed feet. I step on drum jugs and notice they’re breasts, but hard, their nipples like the flat ends of hazelnuts. A forest of wind-blown trees fades into greyness. Amidst the … Continue reading

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999

Thank you, unknown visitors, for 999 visits! In celebration of which a dada poem derived from reflected and unreflected sources and eclectic syntactic influences: Tandaraday Death – do not despair* Eden ith nair – Tandaraday – Where we lay In … Continue reading

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A promise

I will give you good wisdom and good nirvana. – Nivedita B.

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Diet and Heaven

You can’t eat yourself into Heaven. While cooking together, my friend Mareike and I were talking about various diets and eating habits today. I told her about one particularly healthy sanitarium where you don’t get anything to drink with your … Continue reading

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I had decided to let myself fall

and spiraled down in the nauseating black swirl, the enigmatic funnel, not resisting the water invading my nose, my mouth, my lungs. I knew I would die. But at the bottom I was received by soft transparent arms in a … Continue reading

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Galactic hogwash

Nearly One Galactic Year ago, 26,000 years, was the Golden Age of the Empire of the Sun, when humanity lived in peace, love, harmony and prosperity beyond anything we can imagine in these 1990’s. Quote from Lemurian Paradise This is … Continue reading

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That idyll

That idyllic picture with the curved bridge over rippling water (does it ripple? can’t tell, not looking at it now) will have to go, it is not what this is about. This is not about industrially (re)produced bliss. Says Scardanelli, … Continue reading

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