Eight Late Great

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Aug 22, 2026

Hey hi,

As I was working on the thermometer piece I thought I’d toss in a couple recent pieces, and surprise to me, found eight new pieces in the last week alone. And there are a couple three nearly ready.

Roughly in this order … off we go.

Monument to Incrementalism
Rice Crispin’s
And then when i was three
Concrete Holstein
Evidence I collect
We may not see
Sad Collapsing
Cole Slawter

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Rice Crispin’s

When sometimes the breading
is the best part of fried chicken,
fried chicken flavored rice,
without the chicken, seems an
experiment worth making.

Jasmine rice I had on hand and
a most basic spice pack of
onion powder, garlic powder,
white pepper, smoked paprika,

and, not at all on hand, a
bag of chicken crispin’s.
I may run this test
a couple more times.

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“And then, when I was three”

“And then, when I was three”
is a line I have used for years
usually as soon as I realized
that I’d been talking too long.

It is meant as a giggle and
an intro to whoever wanted
to take the magic wand of
microphone and introduce
another set of lies … stories.

And then, much, much later,
the day I realized it might
mean something.

Dad was running sonar on a
destroyer during the Korea deal.
It was mom and me, first born,
King David, the Blessed One.

“And then, when I was three”
my very first brother started
hogging the stage, screaming
into the … my … microphone.

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Concrete Holstein

Basic black and white stack
of building blocks with a bit
of udder pink madness down
and back behind the
nose tongue.

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The Evidence I Collect

(such as we might agree
on the principles of collection)
tends heavily toward perfect
and beautiful even while we
acknowledge the horribly
flawed detritus, whirl pooling
at the drain…

That collection is not evidence

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We may not see

as many death camps
as long as we keep eating
the screwworm salmonella
and whatever else they
spread on the buffet

We may not see

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The Sad Collapsing Stew

You remember, we
all remember,
and that might be
the sad part
right there.

If we, or, as much
as we, might be
able to…

And here is the big trick ..
Put your solutions into solution.
Stir your solutions into the pot.

Stir. Your. Pot.
Motion. Aroma.
Ladles in The Stew.

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Eight Late Great

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