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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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Her Story of Ballooning

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2019/12/28

An excerpt from the WIP "Sigmund, Falling Up!"Man has always dreamt of flight, free through the air. A dream attained. Through effort and persistence.

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Ho Ho Ho, Away We Go

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2019/11/24

It is winter, you see, in candy-land, frosting spread everywhere. Snowmen stand at cold attention whilst Miss Velcro is fit to be tied. The city goes crazy all night my friends, long as Mr. Claus goes a-wandering. Yes, Anything goes in candy-land a land where anything can happen. On Xmas eve Mrs. Claus goes wild. Lets it all come loose. In Candyland. The elves know, but do not tell. All is well, the saying goes, all is swell. ‬

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Aghast in three rings

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2019/11/22

Take me to the circus Where the devils dare To balance at the precipice Up there in mid-air Sitting like a thinker Ass upon a chair Did I leave the stove on? The devil’s mind declared. Below the clown was crying Nose up sniffing in the air Now the daredevil is lying To himself up on that chair. Whoa is me, whoa is me! Said the dog faced boy Ordinarily without a care The dancin’ bear watched helplessly As the Barker was struck By a falling chair.

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Moaning Joe

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2019/11/20

The day you could no longer buy leaded gasoline was the saddest day for every waiter in America who was dependent upon the “leaded” or “unleaded” joke whenever approaching a table to offer caffeinated or decaf coffee. Now the coffee service was a hollow gesture. A mechanistic gruel. But Broadway beckoned. And “Leaded or unleaded the musical” opened to pour box office. Which, trivially, was a joke in the first act.

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A square duel

Writing – DESIRE in CHAINS ·

2019/09/19

Here lies the town liar. Laid low in a comic quagmire. Caused by lack of social graces. Got shot at approximately 40 paces. A fair number, give or take. If one doesn’t ruminate.

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Monkey paw solution

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2019/09/18

‪Wait, stop to consider before you wish on the monkey paw. Might this be another raw deal like our contract with the devil, the genie, and the magic fish? Weird repercussions. Better to just wish everything away! Yes, wish it all aw‬

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Those lizard people? Good eggs.

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2019/08/19

There’s been… A terrible accident involving a li’l scientist atomic pile kit. The rec-room has been evacuated. It’s projected not to be safe for 100,000 years. I spilled root beer on the kit even though the instructions clearly stated no food no drink near kit. I have removed the aa battery, but it is too late. There is no use crying over spilt uranium. The president has come to survey the area. Jesus, he looks like a deer in headlights. One of his handlers proposes we build a concrete wall around

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Tragic Stories (disguised as jokes)

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2019/05/29

Tragic Stories (disguised as jokes) is a collection of tales told by a monster to a demanding little girl. Monsters are unlucky in love. Cupid explains. Some monsters are closer than others. There is a monster who only dines on one half of any available loving couple, A specialty. You can judge a person by their hat. If you want to protect your children (and see them less) you send them back in time. Hungry lions. The suicide machine built with love. Hate mail. Oscar Wilde judges the beauty pageant

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Two Views of the FreakShow

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2019/05/18

It was a dusty, blow away town. The crowds here were larger than otherwise, since people here had nowhere else to be. Nowhere they wanted to be otherwise. Surely this was encouraged by the entrance fee, reduced to a scant two bits, cheaper, brother, than the run down movie “palace” on what passed as small town Main Street. The movie house had worn carpets where the tents at the freak show were bare earth. It had dim lights where here there were full views. Couples would kiss there, in the balcony,

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Rabbit Digs the Hole

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2019/02/09

The Rabbit needed a place to rest. And the safety in the open was a matter, as usual, of grave importance. So he claimed the right of the land and began to dig. Down. Sloping down. Into the cool and welcoming Earth. Some creatures were displaced, with as much grace as could be administered in the circumstance, and a network of tunnels joined the network of tunnels that formed the local underground. A refuge of perpetual night. One digs to escape, dig it? There were Moles in the underground. It was

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The marketing of desires unfulfilled

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2019/02/05

Scene from a pornographic film in 8 millimeter, silent: A title card read: “Oh, Eros! God of Love! Forgive me!” There are street scenes of people of all ages walking alone in the city. At the park. Eating alone in a restaurant, an act Rain considered the impetus for the creation of drive-through windows, and then, as she thought this, a shot of cars lined up at a drive through window, each car with one passenger. A shot of exhaust spilling out of the tail of an idle car, ready to go but confined in

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New Books! New Books for Old!

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2019/01/15

Two NEW books for the New World. Sex Robot Cuddle Party & At the Existential Sandwich Shop;An older book: Perils of Free Thought: a book of no small danger and my oldest books revised and reformatted for the world of the future, Scenic Cesspools (a novel of transgression) and Hard Fought Illusions of Choice. Available from Amazon, KOBO, Barnes & Noble, Overdrive Sex Robot Cuddle Party Sex Robot Cuddle Party is a comedy of loneliness, desire, and longing; and a tragedy of love requited

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Apropos poem

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2019/01/09

I propose. A tax on marriage. And other things I may disparage. I further call for attacks on syntax. A sin tax on grevious body attacks. A body tax on mischievous snacks. Some thumb tacks To impress some paper About the accord. To hear read aloud at the notice board. A blanket tax on climate change. A partial tax on a rearrange. A carpet tax on well thrown rugs. A rug tax for a balding thug. I ask for all these things in turn. So we may all have money to burn.

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Classic comedy explained for today

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2018/12/02

Marx Brothers Four brothers find their identities through wildly exaggerated cultural appropriation. One is an unscrupulous Italian, One is an unruly and frenetic Mute pushing himself in everyone’s personal space, One is a wise-cracking Southern Gentleman of no means, and the other appears normal which is the joke. Sometimes there is singing. Sometimes musical solos with no explanation. Why it is funny: Zeppo! His name is Zeppo! Abbot and Costello Two associates stick together no matter what. One is

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Idle thoughts save energy conscientiously

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2018/10/11

An apparition appeared and pointed its transparent finger toward me. It rasped. “You are in love with a ghost!” I thanked it. I never argue or wrestle with apparitions; there is nothing to hold onto. Its occasional presence was doing me a service. After all, were it not for these occasions, sometimes I would forget I was being tormented. Two plates were stacked high with pancakes. On each plate pancakes were segregated by shape. On one plate the pancakes were in the form of even numbers; on the

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Rabbit Fears

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2018/10/05

“If you were a rabbit, in, say, 1956, let’s say you would spend most of your time readjusting your rabbit ears. Why? Well. Reasons of perception, my dear. Reasons of perception.” – Father Rabbit pontificating about the nature of time, identity, and the perception of otherness¡ but he really just talks to himself.

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Under the tree line

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2018/08/21

You could see the top of the mountain from my house from far away, until it disintegrated into the atmosphere – putting it below the tree line. The mountain rained down like gray snow. Turning mainland into sandy beach. It blew in the air like heavy smoke. It clogged standard vacuum cleaner filters. It ran down the river and heaped into tall mounds, now covered in grass, brush, and trees, masquerading as Hills. People scooped it up into glass jars which once had held preserves in order to store it

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Slice of life

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2018/08/16

What is the relationship between being the judge of a pie baking contest, and the age old tradition of hiring on a food taster for royals with low approval ratings? “It is a shame,” said the Queen to the jester, “for in addition to alerting me to potential poison, my taster would tell me which was good and which was bad. Indeed. Even which was the best. Two things in case of Tie!” Then the queen laughed. Because the jester did something which invoked the response. However, neither of them

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To the gills

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2018/04/10

This is not a poem It is a metaphorical pipe For one can smoke it Like a king salmon In a smokehouse Where the fish gather at the smokehouse pub a yearly school reunion where the fish enjoy smoking poems. Three wishes! said the kingfish smacking his lips Three wishes! I am parched I rolled this poem from parchment though it is distinctively fishy behavior I offer my kingdom for in the sea you must see one can hardly ever find a light.

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Old Jack McLantern, a warning

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2018/04/04

“What is a Jack-o’-lantern?” she asked. “It is a pumpkin, hollowed out, its flesh carved with a design, usually a face, and a candle placed inside turning it into a lantern. Do you not have them?” “No. But why is it called Jack?” “I don’t know. I suppose, since there is usually a face carved in it, it was given a name – Jack.” “No. There is always a reason why,” she said. The Jack-o’-lantern is related to the Will-o’-wisp. It literally means “Jack, of the lantern.” The Will-o’-wisp occurs in

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