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Writing – DESIRE in CHAINS

David Raffin

Journal of. Published under the auspices of the HiSky* Trust, founded 1957 to promote disorder. (*Hiss-Key)

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So That’s the Story

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2015/05/18

This is a selection of older material from my first book “Rhyme or Treason, hard fought illusion of choice.” This is basically the sampler CD I used to bring to readings, without the ebook which was included on the CD. [amazon asin=B002OHD220&template=iframe image]

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True story, disbelief suspension failure

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2015/05/11

Once I was at a theater as a zombie movie was letting out and I overheard a serious looking man in a suit say to his partner while exiting, “Highly improbable.” Everyone’s a critic.

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Dinosaur Fossil Reveals Cause of Death : Time Travel

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2015/05/09

“Phillip Currie from the University of Alberta has recently uncovered a juvenile Chasmosaurus belli that was so complete and intact, he was actually able to speculate about the cause of death.” Source: New Baby Dinosaur Fossil Reveals Cause of Death | IFLScience *** Sadly, the dinosaur expired after eating plastic. It is past time we ban dumping of non-biodegradable garbage in the distant past. We would already be seeing the complications of this dumping, were it not for the fact

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emotional content

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2015/04/21

I lost my emotions in a previous decade. Coincided with a war, I think. I simply put them somewhere and they disappeared. I can only assume someone took them. And somebody is out there right now, you see, playing with my emotions.

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Trauma Bunny

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2015/04/13

People think Trauma Bunny is funny. Yes, even that time he was drowning in honey. People laughed and laughed and helped not at all. It was lucky for the bunny he got out of that sticky situation at all. Nightmares in the day has he. Yes, he is always dreading the return of the bumble bee. Art via Richard F. Yates

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Sexism, Arbitrary Ethnic Humor, and Science.

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2015/04/09

Three men walk into a bar… At this point a lady asks me, “Why men?” And I say, “It’s a sexist joke.” Three Swedes walk into a bar. It is full of leprechauns. It is the wrong bar. They are lost. “Who is lost, the Swedes or the leprechauns?” The Finnish man asks the Irish man how it’s going. “Oh, could be worse. I still have the one leg.” Arbitrary Ethnic Humor. Science is the cruelest discipline. Followed by comedy. When science and comedy

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Old Mr. Block

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2015/04/04

In the folklore of the IWW Mr. Block is a man who never does anything right. He stands up for all the wrong things and is disappointed with the outcomes. When I was in the seventh grade Mr. Block was my woodshop teacher. Not only was he Mr. Block because he taught woodshop, he was Mr. Block because whenever something raised his ire he would throw a random wood block at students. Wood blocks would whiz through the air, wobbly projectiles barely missing random student heads. Then, often, colliding or

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Love, Rejected (from the book “Tragic Stories...

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2015/03/30

My petition for love was denied by the central authority which handles such petitions. It used to be that these standard rejections came by certified mail and were printed in ornate script on fine paper. Today they all come by text message. Still, they carry with them the same tradition. They are summary rejections. And they are form letters. If someone were to travel forward from 100 years in the past they would recognize them immediately. “That is a standard rejection of a petition for love, sent

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Saturday afternoon on the street, a true story

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2015/03/02

Walk down the street. The man in front of you is disheveled and has wild hair. He speaks to himself, sometimes a mumble. Sometimes alternating volume. Sometimes abruptly stopping mid-sentence to wait a moment and start a seemingly unrelated sentence. Then he says, loud and clear: “Just Kill them yourself. It’s easy.” Then he mumbles something. He crosses the street. There is a man on the corner sitting on the sidewalk with a begging sign. The disheveled man says, “Hi,

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Representations of Muhammad [for Charlie Hebdo]

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2015/01/07

in, out, and about the box [for Charlie Hebdo] If a cartoonist draws Muhammad, he or she invariably will frame that drawing between four straight lines, a graphic representation of a box. Herein lies a problem: Nobody puts Muhammad in a box. The Muhammad in a Box was a toy popular in the fifties. You turned the crank and it played a tune. But Muhammad never popped out. Angry parents would take the toy to the manufacturer and complain. The manufacturer invariably told them that Muhammad does not

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Let me give it to you straight

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2014/12/30

The artificial dividing line between artificially drawn time segments is nigh. “Neigh!” said the horse, who was a well-known neigh-sayer. And that is the news. Straight from the horse’s mouth.

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Why a Dog Barks, a poem

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2014/12/06

When a dog hears another dog it responds with a hearty round of reciprocal barking. This is an unbroken chain, as long as there is a dog to answer the call and response. It is akin to the human game of telephone. One message is passed on continuously, dog to dog to dog. The message starts in China, like the flu. In the fall one dog barks. It is heard ’round the world. It is understood only by dogs. It is an urgent message, spread urgently. When it gets to the end, it no longer has any

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Sweat the backstory

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2014/11/16

At night it falls as low as 17°. The sweater I am wearing comes from near the beach. It was knitted by hand by a lady with MS. She owned a large cat who would sit on the piles of sweaters for sale. I don’t have stories for all my clothes. Most people are not aware of the backstory of their attire. And they’re not all as nice as that. Best not to ask the origin of my pants.

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Object-Subject; or the Subjectivity of Objects and...

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2014/11/15

“I do not care for that man.” “Why is that?” “He objectifies women.” “You mean he turns women into objects?” “Yes.” “That’s actually pretty impressive. Can he change objects into women as well, because he would then be a pretty powerful wizard. I can see why people would wish to avoid him.” The History of Alchemy Crossing the same stream twice: Held to be impossible. Turning water into Wine: Purported, failed to be

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True Blue

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2014/09/15

Some jokes are designated by color. Some jokes are funny because they are blue. Some people think it more funny if that blue joke is true.

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The origin of Pease Porridge, hot and cold, as well...

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2014/07/11

Everytime I hear “Pease Porridge Hot” I think, “What a terrible advertising jingle.” But then I note that I become desirous for pease porridge of any sort, and I further marvel at the longevity of the ad jingle; as well as the porridge itself. Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old. I also note that its popularity is possibly spurred by the fact that it long

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The Arkansas Traveller

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2014/06/22

They don’t have a lot of religious relics in the United States but those they have they hold dear. In Arkansas they have the original pogo stick Jesus used to jump on. When a traveller challenged the authenticity of the relic he was murdered by true believers. This happened in 1919 the same year sticks were patented and imported to the US. Today there is a song schoolchildren sing about it, but the revised song purports to be about a bumble bee. It is no longer the state song, having been

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Cursed objects and the purchase thereof

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2014/06/21

Not every item at The Old Curiosity Shop is cursed. In fact, those that are we keep safely behind the counter. You may only gaze upon them in the presence of our highly trained staff. Touching is forbidden unless you are over the age of eighteen and are certified to handle cursed objects. We will not sell a cursed item to any customer without a full background check and a waiting period. An exception to this is the cursed item grab bag by the door. Pick a box, any box. You never know what you will

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A shadow’s nose

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2014/06/18

The famous image of a nose scrawled all over the world in graffiti, a running joke or a profound statement that something has gone off? Is it based on one specific person’s nose or is it based on an amalgam of every kind of nose; an everynose? The answer is, of course, “no one knows.”

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Witness the kitty cat

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2014/05/18

A Hapgood and Fowler erotic adventure Hapgood stared at the crime scene. Actually, he stood at the crime scene, his back to the area of the actual crime. In front of him sat a black house cat. The cat stared to the left of the actual crime scene. Hapgood carefully observed every subtle move the cat made. Behind him a small group of lower-level detectives scoured the scene for evidence. Fowler walked over and stood at Hapgood’s right. “Ball Peen Hammer,” said Fowler with the tone of one who is

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