A Knock Under the Table

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We were waiting on the Ma’am to arrive, swing open the doors, and bid us inside to a dark, cozy parlour, so warm and so dry - the burning incense, it smelled so fine. We’re transported in the blink of an eye when the Ma’am commands the Great Veil aside. She asks to describe you when you were alive. I look at the Ma’am and the Ma’am, she just smiles. She says, “I know that it’s hard. It’s a difficult time.” So I steel myself, and I give myself permission to cry, but even though I watched you die, I swear - the Ma’am took your dictation from the other side.

I know I have to try to see the life beyond life, try to receive with my whole mind, try to open that oblique eye, try.

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from A Comedy, released March 5, 2021

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Oiseaux regina, Saskatchewan

Existential terror, death drive, humankind's puny shape flailing hopelessly against the intangible body of the sublime, made immanent in ass-shaking, skull-shearing rock music.

Oiseaux are Paula, John, Leo, Gage, and Jon. ... more

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