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The Poor Man's Polymath

Bryon Slack

Poems, prose, and essays on systems, survival, and the machinery underneath.

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The Cartography of the World of Slack

Okay, so… fair point: over 260 posts is potentially an unreasonable pile to expect someone to volunteer to go digging through. I would suppose that means it’s time to grip the belt on my Big Boy Pants© and give them the Old Man Wriggle Adju...

12 days ago
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The Things We Thought We Knew Chapter 18

Chapter 18

“Your ‘if’ is the only peacemaker; much virtue in ‘if.’”
—William Shakespeare
Hohentwiel Archives

I’m not sure exactly when we picked up the dog. It must have been somewhere between Wetzlar and Linden. It had a thick, h...

13 days ago
5

That’s How it Goes

That’s How it Goes
by Bryon Slack

Patricide and petrichor,
Deicide and demon cores,
Fratricide and foreign corps,
Homicide and settled scores.

Regicide in the ritual lore,
Genocide and grim folklore,
Tyrannicide on tida...

15 days ago
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Autumnal Poem in Two Registers

Morning for Billie-Joe
by Bryon Slack

Still flaunting her radiant warmth
in the height of day
while coolness lay
pooled like relief in shade
and across the edges of night.

Night expands her boundaries,
usurping more min...

21 days ago
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Aggravated Adaptability

Snaking fingers
lined with a fissile glow
climb over the horizon
and across the sand,
over mountains
that had forgot
how to stand.

Flowing waters rise
from their cracking beds
to join them,
their forgotten tears...

a month ago
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    Just a man. Lived some life, seen some things, done some stuff. Worked for radio, telemarketing, customer service, OTR truck driver, elephant handler, and cook. Drinks coffee and knows things. Iconoclast. buymeacoffee.com/zyerhodg

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