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Books
· Coruscated Confabulations: Oh! The Humanity!

· Marooned on Moloka'i: Coconuts, Dreams & Death

· Saunas and War Toys

· Falling Off the Mountain (poems)

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

· U S Chemical and Biological Defense Respirators


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· The Jade Compass

· A Plethora of Papas

· A Great Many Moons Ago...

· Catenary Roe, a tail (sic) of Old Monterey

· The Great Venuezuelan Beaver Cheese OODA Loop

· The Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion (a short story)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part II)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part1)

· An Arrow for Amaterasu

· Outdoor Bob and the leaf-blower from Hell...


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· Field Notes on the Species 'Homo sapien'

· Iaido: The art of Japanese sword draw...

· Obesity: To be or not to be?

· And now a word from Our Heavenly Host...

· Joseph Pujol, Le Petomane, star of the Moulin Rouge (1887)

· NorCal Coastal Cold Water Reflections, 1989/2007

· The Gold and Azure Frontier

· We the Pimples... (or) a Child's Garden of Constitutional Verses...

· Welcome to Californication, suckers!

· Confessions of a 'Yellow Fever' afflictee...


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· Solar fire of the Heavens...

· Find her in everything...

· Petrushka's Remorseful 5-Year Plan...

· The starward path: A tribute to Laika and Gagarin

· Hair today, groan tomorrow...comrade

· Merely a turn of the wheel...

· Crush depth

· The Doorway, twixt Heaven and Hell...

· Puddle Worms

· Happy Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion

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· Every writer needs egoboo (an ego boost)

· Two new books of poetry now released and available

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

· Marooned on Molokai (a Hawaiian travel journal)

· Local Writer Not Slated to Receive Steinbeck Foundation Recognition

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Selbstmord or something like it...

by Kalikiano Kalei — Read all 118 poems by Kalikiano Kalei

What thoughts stream through the minds of those on the verge of embarking on their final voyage to infinity by their own hand? One may only guess and wonder.

Friday, June 16, 2017


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Last Thoughts: Not


Ernest Hemingway

“It is a good gun, an honest gun…”

Richard Brautigan

“Lead can be toxic…”

Hunter S. Thompson

“Only Jesus can taste this and live…”

Frida Kahlo

“The highbrows still aren’t right…”

Vincent van Gough

“My own ‘Starry Knight’ perhaps…"

Yukio Mishima

“I’ll miss my Starfighter…”

Iris Chang

“Mother will disapprove…”

Abbie Hoffman

“Steal this death…”

Jerzi Kosinski

“A truly kozmic blowjob…"

Phil Ochs

“I ain’t marchin’ anymore…”

Lew Welch

"Bears? Out here!?"

Ann Sexton

“I never liked automobiles…”

Franz Kafka

“Death by breath, how fitting, cough…”

 

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Note: The illustration accompanying this is borrowed from brilliant Berkeley artist & writer, David Goines. It is, in its original form, a poster art-piece titled 'Double Suicide".

 



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on June 18, 2017
Both creative and refreshing. Shows that even suicide can be invigorating for those of us that peek in on it without going along.

Ron

Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on June 17, 2017
Wow, so many brilliant one lines, well selected well displayed xo


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