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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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Reign of error

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2018/01/12

Hark, dear friends, a terrible fate America ran down the sewer grate Beavers shouted “damn!” But it was too late They were attending a party at 10,000 a plate “What to do?” said the otter to its mate “Why I otter…” was the reply-but it was too late The Dragon said, “We’ll consolidate!” “We can own this parched landscape if we concoctitrate!” “If anyone tries to stop us we’ll denunciate!” “Berate. Sublimate. Keep both eyes on Homeplate. Trust in me and I will make this land again great!” “The first

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We are all freaks. Solidarity.

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2017/09/13

1916: The gentleman raised an eyebrow. He said, “I shan’t go to the circus for the freaks are revolting!“ His servants responded immediately. “If the freaks are revolting I must go and lend my immediate support! For I love a revolt! Revolution!” Also the gentleman’s wife left him. For the bearded lady.

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Cold Civil War Heats Up

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2017/09/09

I can’t stand when Nazis try to lecture the public on politeness. But it does prove the old adage that those who can’t do will always try to teach. After all, the complaint that Nazis aren’t being treated fairly is nonsense. I’m willing to bake them a same sex wedding cake, same as anyone else. The Nazis finally get some men in power, and still no respect. They just can’t win. What totalitarians hate most is people laughing at them. Their hatred is very serious to them. They expect you to

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A heartbreaking Iron Maiden tale

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2017/09/08

2008. Amsterdam. I enter an empty bar. It is the dead of winter. It is cold and the streets are deserted. As is the bar. Deserted but for the barkeep. A British man standing behind the counter looking stoic. Early Iron Maiden plays featuring the first singer, Paul Di’Anno. “My boyfriend left me last night and took all my records. All but Iron Maiden. The early Maiden. With the best singer. Paul Di’Anno. But it’s all right. I can listen to Paul Di’Anno the rest of my

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A proper airing out

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2017/05/15

A night out with the clown is not all it’s cracked up to be. The clown strolls down the sidewalk his balloon hanging behind him, half inflated, like a dog being taken for a walk. What slim string holds a balloon to its master? It is convention. To a balloon being half inflated is to hang dejected. Not up. Not down. Just there. Any dreams the balloon once had have long since popped. Where do balloons go when they sail away aimlessly skyward? To salvation? Or are they ultimately eaten by the

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Universal robotics

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2017/04/30

‪”But I don’t think I need to be reprogrammed,” said the robot.‬‪”That is exactly the kind of thing we all say when we need reprogrammed,” said the robot doctor. ‬ ‪”That does not compute,” said the robot.‬ ‪”Hey, who’s the robot doctor here?” said the robot doctor. Then she laughed. Kind of a tinny mechanical laugh. Just a whiff of robotic condescension. The product of millions of dollars worth of research, that laugh. Let us be clear – it

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You can’t tell people how you perform a trick if you...

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2017/02/05

‪”The president is a wonderful magician,” said Mitch McConnell.‬ ‪”How so?” said Paul Ryan.‬ ‪”When he saws a lady in half he actually saws a lady in half.”‬ ‪As he said this Mitch McConnell smiled in that creepy way Mitch McConnell smiles.‬ ‪”I’d love to see that!” said Paul Ryan. Because he is also an immoral creep.‬

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Hark!

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2017/01/14

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Burn this flag, please

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2016/12/06

I question all the proposed laws against burning or desecrating the flag. That’s bad for business; ergo it is un-American. Think of it: every flag burned is product moved. Flag burning should be encouraged. That’s good business. Otherwise flags would have to be manufactured to wear out sooner. Or the design would have to change seasonally to encourage sales. Only a traitor waves last years flag. Displaying an old flag from the back of your pickup truck? Prepare to be pulled over and ticketed. It’s

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Thankfully, ideology only brings out the best in people.

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2016/12/04

Whenever terrible things happen the intelligentsia inform you the age of humor has ended. Because they don’t want you to have anything. Will there be funny jokes during the suffering? Yes, there will be funny jokes during the suffering. But the laughter will be desperate. This country used to have slaves. But the word was distasteful. So we replaced it with other words more socially acceptable. Under the new regime poets shall be stripped of their words and forced to communicate via color

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Modernity as it relates to walls

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2016/11/27

I awake. I think of breakfast. I post on Facebook about breakfast, and get a warm response. Yet no breakfast occurs. I become concerned that there are rats in the walls. My walls. Rats. There is an alternative explanation which seems too cut and dry. This is a world where rats in the walls are as plausible as any other explanation. I would be disappointed were there no rats in the walls. My walls. Those rats! It is not something I could accept. It is a good opening line for breakfast. “I have

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A meeting of the monsters

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2016/08/19

“No, I don’t like it,” said a monster. “Then no one shall have it!” said another monster, who was a friend, a foul-weather friend, of the first monster. “Anyone who complains shall have their sanity questioned!” “Hear, hear!” said the number one monster, who finally felt validated by taking pleasure away from someone else. Which is what monsters do. A third monster was paid 200 million dollars for formulating a policy paper explaining,

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Bear all

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2016/07/17

The bear ate a pear You think, how debonair But she wanted the eclair Which was already eaten in a picnick-error By a picnicker who was an au pair But tasted like an upholstered chair So the bear followed up by eating a pear And slept that night without a care. – From the little book of rhymes about well fed-up bears

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Try not to be diminished

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2016/07/11

I like to do math It puts me back On that evil left handed path For what is math That Wicked art Which reduces all to that Numeric flow chart It sets one and one apart Ripped from each other With a cold math heart And joins together randoms Thereby forced to work in tandem For the sake of the equation Where the means justify the ends On paper everything’s good and right For no one cares of the numbers plight.

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I see you ordered a Full English Brexit

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2016/06/26

Now that Britain will not be overseen by the larger European Union, does this mean they will begin trying to colonize everywhere again? I mainly ask because I wonder how this will effect the availability and price of marmite worldwide. Not to mention that the British were already having a biscuit shortage before this whole thing… crumbled.

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It’s about time I wrote a love story

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2016/06/11

so this is chapter 1 of Sex Robots at the Edge of Infinity “You’re interested in sex robots,” said the manual. “And who wouldn’t be?” It was a rhetorical question. Who wasn’t interested in sex robots? “Fifty years ago they were the wave of the future and today they are what keeps humanity sane.” The manual was outdated but it was still true. All of it was true. A manual doesn’t survive in today’s world to be an out of date manual, one which hasn’t been pulped and

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Please attach references

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2016/06/06

You need friends to use for good references. But you need enemies to use for bad references. How else to meet new friends and enemies? I hope your paperwork is in order.

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Whatever temperature it is in the room is room...

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2016/06/04

A Vintage fridge keeps things slightly cool. But mine does not. For as of almost a week ago it is dead. I mean I still have it, but the insides hold at 68°. And rising. It’s where I store the room temperature food. A new one will be delivered tomorrow. A no-frills version – according to the repairman and three salesman at three stores the new refrigerant is more corrosive than Freon and burns out compressors, and they declared my 8 1/2 year-old fridge to be “A good life span.” And

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The ballad of the whip

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2016/05/30

For sale, one whip Hardly used – hardly used This is not a sad story Do not be disabused A man came here and bought it Yes he did – yes he did It’s none of my business Whatever he does But I could not help but wonder When he went on his way Whether he bought it to whip others Or himself– Or himself Whether he bought it to whip others Or himself– Or himself (That’s called flagellation*) Whether he bought it to whip others Or himself– Or himself *** [*not fellatio]

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A guide to personal style and voyeurism

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2016/05/29

Johnny Cash- I shot a man in Reno. Philip K Dick – In Reno I shot a man.

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