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The future catwalks an ultramarine puffer jacket . . .

Fast forward to destabilization

adjusting the required rhymes apart from the action . . .

You have immersed yourself in totemism . . .

Copies of postproduction notes

have been distributed to those on the brink . . .

So it's back to the basics, I suppose . . .

In no time, ashes . . . at the wellhead of a dream . . .

You don't want to call, trust me . . .

Confiding to a few intimates

will stem the tide of what, I'm not sure anymore . . .

Once captivating, now drudgery . . .

There are far too many shifts in this faux drama

meandering across the busy boulevard

spotted with coding samples from the latest release . . .

Take the funny and run, yes? . . .

Laura Zalenga

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So Double-Double-Toil-and-Stubble

takes the stage to assure the Academy

that he won't be egregious

acknowledging with record-setting windbaggery

that it can all go away . . .

His chewing gum thrown into a bath

of lemon and eucalyptus catalysts

begs a raging crisp outlined situation room . . .

uprooting doomed lovers

slumpingly caressing each scene

at the ruins of Ramesses II . . .

The red carpet frayed . . .

Acceptance speeches vaporized . . .

You too seem unsure of your lines

which regrettably is not all that uncommon

in these days of AI scripting

with writers and editors and influencers

tripping over one another

to comply with those signing their per diems . . .

Ramesses II

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You spent the morning scrubbing histories

of suburban notifications which seemed to have popped up

overnight in network logs . . .

AI spillage and then again what was it? . . .

You could have queried the odysseyites

who were eager to feather their maps with minutiae

spellbinding summit seekers . . .

You unfriended a chat by recounting the experience

of closing various gaps awash with celebratory shifts

to the astonishment of those in the antechamber

queuing up for the virtual red carpet . . .

Ellen von Unwerth

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Despite the after-hours rehearsals

there was never an overnight

just a quick wherewithal

and you were out . . . and about . . .

The flesh overrated, yes? . . .

And with that a different costume

supporting an expression of calm . . .

Surreal of calm, perhaps? . . .

No hint of disbelief . . . nope . . .

good, I suppose if you're determined

to argue a rewrite . . .

At least that's what was intimated . . .

Ellen von Unwerth

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And now they've returned to their respective lives . . .

The dry brush technique may save the canvas

and open a door to a more genial interpretation of events . . .

Over and over again, the enchantment

brought everyone together . . .

You worry the bluntness of your new bob

but those arguments are insinuations

foreshadowing a sequence of ups and downs . . .

And what about the yellow tux? . . .

Such a shame to have jettisoned the BLT . . .

Was it part of your weight-loss mantra? . . .

I think your proportions marvel exactitude

of whatever was implied by that intrusive handle . . .

Forewarned, you stopped just short

of the nomenclature waiting in the siding

for the proposed locomotive

to accept the consolation prize . . .

Take it, yes, take it . . .

Now you're back in front of the class

with your trigonometric underpinnings

which have a history of wowing counterinsurgents

on leave in the high peaks

managing silence with admirable refrain . . .

Yet another cardboard castle nestled in the wood . . .

Ellen von Unwerth

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Excerpting obituaries might yield a clue

to the ornamentation favored by those

who think they're in the know . . .

The dry illumination will not help

despite what you've heard . . .

Sadly, they are no wiser for it . . .

You want to cut short the conversation? . . .

That could compromise the data

you've agreed to share . . . but I suppose

that happens more than we'd like to admit . . .

Falling as it does into the infinitesimal hole

in our consciousness, to plummet headlong

into the twenty-thousand leagues of notes . . .

A Captain Nemo type was found floating along

in an alphabetical undercurrent . . .

This has to be yet another wake-up call . . .

Hannes Caspar