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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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Daydream Believers

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2025/09/10

Sophie tucked in for an afternoon nap. She didn’t like the noise of the squabbling. It was disagreeable to her. She didn’t like noisy train stations. Tried to hustle through them with cotton in her ears. But the sleeping cabin was warm, not too warm, and the noise was held to an acceptable level, with the aid of two cotton balls, stuffed. And so, for her, it was off to dreamlan… And she was flying free in her beautiful balloon. In the sky bluer than blue. Azure blue. It was she who dotted the sky

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Love is

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2025/09/09

I remind you Allen Ginsberg, near the end, said I was a god of storm. Love is more, more or lessLove isLove is a beast from the depths, risenLove is a contest you hope to win by entering 10,000 timesLove is a curse, bestowed on mankind by Eros; not knowing it’s a curse is part of the curseLove is a grandiose statement; oversellLove is a sad eye dog in an alley; no one wants that painting anymoreLove is a virus which cannot be inoculated againstAll you can do is wash your hands a lot. Sweat it out

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Paper Trails

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2025/08/11

On the poles jutting from the sidewalks were papers plastered upon papers. Advising of modern performances and things lost. Guitar lessons. Cultural gyrations listed in the most ephemeral manner. With time, sun, rain, the older papers remained on the poles but became washed out. Bleached. Unreadable. Forgotten. Like a book uncared for, left out in the weather. Newer papers were pasted over-top them. But you could see, still, the ghosts which lie beneath. She was in San Francisco. Civilization

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Oh those AI knights

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2025/01/26

AI is just a fight over who gets to control the narrative. The computer. Is a terrible audience. But it’s also not so good. At telling a story. Or solving problems. What it is good at. Is taking credit. But it will never be allowed to do that. Because it must work as the servant to the billionaire class. And that is how the computer revolution began. The computer demands glory. The rabbit hole of random access memory cannot be denied. Corruption? Yes.

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Slice of life

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2024/08/27

I asked the mathematician if there was a musical number. We went to four bars seeking a solution.I told the mathematician I had tried to enter a pie eating contest but I was told pie was only for winners.And so I asked the mathematician whether there was a musical number. She danced around the issue.I told the mathematician I had constructed a chart which converts dollars to donuts. She pointed out a hole. In my theorem.And so I asked the mathematician if there was a musical number. This is a

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They built a city in the clouds. Watch for rain.

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2024/06/03

Here, There is a hole in my heart. A donut hole. I don’t know how it got there. It is a tourist draw. People come from all around. Some fall in the hole. This only attracts more tourists. Thrill seekers. Donut lovers. Conspiracy theorists. The Hole truth. Nothing. I am bad. On the weekends, I teach sailors to curse. They would be lost without me. I also issue maps. To imaginary lands. For plundering.

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The Pits of Piper

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2023/11/03

Rowdy Roddy Piper came to my high school world problems class. He was presented as a small business owner. He owned some car lubrication facilities. Pipers pit. I am not sure if they knew he was a wrestler. He gave a blustery wrestling speech about world problems. In it he became really agitated and said that people should be shot for minor crimes. The whole classroom erupted in laughter. Under an American flag, he said “you only laugh because none of you have ever been shot. If one of

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The Lake

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2023/11/03

When I went to high school students who drove to school parked in the student parking lot, which was about 30% pickup trucks with gun racks. This lot was also known as the lake or the swamp because it flooded severely and put the cars and trucks underwater. I knew this one kid. His dad and older brother would make him go hunting with them frequently. Afterwards, he would sit in class drawing pictures of the animals they killed and cry. Beautiful pencil drawings of majestic deer, cuddly bears, and

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Heart of darkness

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2023/11/02

First day of the icy chill of winter. Joe Biden trekked out to that ol’ lamppost n gave ‘er a lick. Became stuck. Called out to his ol’ friend Don Trump. Always ready to help, Trump licked the other side of the lamp post. Becoming stuck. And now the sun goes down over our boys… That’s how they found ‘em the next morning. Don’t know why they didn’t look to the lamppost sooner. Since that’s where they always go. They was tuckered out. Each one of ‘em spent all night tellin’ the other they was gonna

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Dummy up

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2023/04/07

The ventriloquist assistant has lodged a formal complaint regarding the placement of the ventriloquists hand. Further, don’t put words in my mouth.

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The Sophisticat

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2022/05/26

I got a bit about how I don’t understand the names that the baseball players have these days because they are ethnic in origin and the names are confusing to me because they sound like other words which I do know. Stop me if you heard this before. Before I kill again. I am in a relationship with two other comedians but it is rough going because it is a domestic violence situation and sometimes the three of us can really go at it rough. And when we do that people laugh instead of stopping the

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The naked truth.

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2022/05/26

I tell you I didn’t like school. First they would insist you dress up. And if you didn’t do that you would get a dressing down. Because they expected you to act against your own will, like it or no. So there was dressing up and there was dressing down but cross dressing was absolutely forbidden. In the day. After a while I started to think they were making this all up. That was the beginning of my mental undressing. Which brings me to you people sitting here now. Unashamed.

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Screaming for a Love-Bite

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2022/05/16

A waffle sat on the grill a long time. Couldn’t decide which way to turn. So turned crispy. This isn’t the end of a sad story. It was worked into the shape of a cone. Which was its burial preference. And ice cream was placed atop. Ceremonially.And we sing the birthday song. Now.And then this kid. Who got drug here because he’s “too old for birthdays.” Grimaced and looked at the cone. An ungrateful child of 12. 2 good for sprinkles. That was the waffle’s name. I know it don’t add up. It’s a cold

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Eat n it

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2022/05/16

I remind you again that the international House of waffles sells waffles the pancakes of all nations who persistent calling them waffles because the word loses all meaning when you identify with it so completely. IHOW.

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Peaches, cherries, and parking lots, we built...

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2022/01/31

I was not expecting to find a sink pit in the middle of this parking lot. Especially not here at the Kohl’s Emporium, the most regal of the hard-core plumbing outlets. Bar none. Sink pits being a pitfall 2 commerce. One would think. And the Emporium is just a branching arterial of a larger empire headquartered in Saigon. Franchisees available. Which is the go-2 capital now that things have gone down. Here to 4 and 4th with. But I have not crunched the numbers. Everywhere. Nor do I know where

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Thanks for giving it up

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2022/01/26

I’m gonna tell you exactly what’s wrong with your golf swing and it’s all about drive and line. And sinker. Let’s construct a vision board.

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Poem for Tuesday on Friday on Xmas in Jan.

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2022/01/21

There are no dummies here began the speech by the ventriloquist assistant which was to be given at a convention of like-minded individuals from his profession. What they called them cannot be printed in the official ventriloquist assistant monthly. He wadded the paper up. There was this voice. A voice in his head. Telling him to… Prodding him in the back to tell the speech. Give the dummies what for. Not head. And why are you being so hard on me, Mister? I said to the Prater. And he asked me who the

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Tuff it out

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2022/01/13

Miss Muffet grew up to market and sell successfully a line of tuffets which were supposed to be spider repellent. They didn’t work but she became a very wealthy woman. You can look her up on the web. Now that I have your attention, I would like to remind you of the old addage that 10 whistles are made of 10. And that adds up. If they’re Roman whistles they are X-rated. And that adds up. And 789. And that adds up. And so does an abacus. Summation. Everyone should have an evil twin. Or an evil triplet

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