beautiful_buried_red_blathes
raze swim_me_in_blue 140322
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raze low_flying_planes 140323
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raze 11th_street 140324
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raze this_then 140325
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raze when_the_tree_dies 140326
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thwa her_first_kiss_was_from_a_cigarette 140326
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thwa whoops!...

his_first_kiss_was_from_a_cigarette
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raze my_own_oxygen 140723
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raze fails at the linkage circus_imperfect_beauty 140724
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raze (what the crap? firefox saved my name from when i failed at the linkage in the past, and i accidentally clicked on it at a time when i succeeded. oy vey.) 140724
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raze here_is_where_i_am_right_now 140725
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raze admin 140726
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raze tilted 140727
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raze grey_sky_redux 140728
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raze fleshburst 140729
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raze here_is_no_why 140730
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raze sydney_rain 140731
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raze dont_bother_meow 140801
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raze long_after_gone 140802
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TK for_sake_of_appearances 140806
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raze broken_window 140808
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gja crow 140808
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raze incarnate 140816
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raze dear_mother 140818
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raze bright_magenta

(unsettling, but powerfully written)
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raze selkie 140821
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raze sigh_smile 140824
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raze a_room_in_summer 140825
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raze anytown 140902
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raze rocking_chair 140906
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raze unknown_world 140907
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raze smiling_voices 140910
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raze waiting_game

(playing chess with time)
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raze accidents_and_bestfriends 140922
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raze about_to_turn 140924
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raze querl 140925
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raze flesh_covered_muscle_over_bone 140926
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raze persimmon 141009
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raze findingness 141106
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raze poetry_of_fire 141211
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raze winter_feeling 150102
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raze to_dance 150103
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raze existentialism_waltz

(for what megan wrote)
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raze saints_and_sinners 150202
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raze angel_trees 150220
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raze pick_a_hand 150318
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raze remind_yourself 150612
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raze union_pool 151115
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raze skycrack 160704
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raze tender_scars 170403
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raze bi 170525
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raze the_end_of_the_road 170830
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raze impulse 180203
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raze moth 180301
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raze besides_the_pain 200526
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raze fallen_red_leaves 210718
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raze call_of_night

(how did this person only ever blathe seven times? how?)
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raze sleepy_lightning 210922
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raze bad_news 210924
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raze the_wood 211008
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raze floral_dance 211012
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raze falling_into_fall 211019
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raze across_the_table_across_the_world 211023
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tender_square it's_like_swimming

no_one_noticed
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raze les_jeune_filles 211029
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raze my_street 211030
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raze if_clouds_had_eyes 211103
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raze run_away 211105
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raze microburst

(thanks to tender_square for inadvertently bringing this one back. i'd never read it before. i was missing out.)
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raze under_the_bed 211111
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raze goodbye_world 211115
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tender_square no_one_wants_to_be_a_pirate 211119
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raze firework_fog 211122
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tender_square twine 211123
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raze holding_pattern 211124
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raze ya_vuelvo 211126
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raze white_dress 211127
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raze this_is_my_path 211129
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tender_square several of us updated this one recently; coming across it again randomly two months later turned my stomach into a coiled, compressed spring that released: a_lesson_on_grief 211129
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tender_square sun_speak 211129
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raze national_geographic 211201
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tender_square monet_on_bartlett_fish_out_of_water 211204
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raze ocular_migraine_trephination 211206
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tender_square the brilliance of kerry, already apparent seventeen years ago: sleeping_in_the_car 211208
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raze stimulants_and_sardines 211209
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kerry seeing one of my ancient blathes here is giving me the warm-and-fuzzies. thank you thank you thank you! 211209
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tender_square you've been an incredible writer for sixteen years, kerry. it's amazing to bear witness to your brilliance both now *and* then. 211209
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kerry you're really kind. and you've also sent me down this red rabbit hole--how is it that sixteen years is an eternity and also a fleeting moment? 211209
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raze (honestly, i would have put about fifty of your blathes here by now if i hadn't already linked to circus_imperfect_beauty and moth a while back, and if i wasn't trying to mix up my "finds". part of what i hoped this blathe might doand it makes me so happy to see other people adding to it! — is encourage this very kind of archeological experience. there's so much here. so much i still haven't seen, even after all these years. and running into an earlier version of yourself when you're still right here is such a strange, unique, surreal thing.) 211209
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kerry (it really is surreal!! thank you for creating this blathe. i'm constantly surprised/pleased by the names reemerging here--so many writers i admired and didn't realize i still miss.) 211209
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raze nirvana_was_kept_well_hidden_by_my___teachers__ 211212
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raze dangit. that shoulda been:

nirvana_was_kept_well_hidden_by_my_''teachers''

(tricky apostrophes)
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raze the_loneliest_road 211213
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raze other_recurring_dreams 211215
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tender_square raze was blowing up my random searching today, and i found these three gems:

cameron, gloved, and trumpet
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raze i'm honoured to have made an appearance (or three) here!

this one struck me good this morning:

cosmic_confetti
211219
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raze lifemist

(paste! never wrote much on red, but when he did, he made it count)
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tender_square wanted to see what "affirmation" said after i noticed it was a linked blathe in "too_close_to_home_horoscopes" today. was not disappointed. 211221
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tender_square couer (misspelled but still lovely) 211221
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raze lullaby_17000_km

(for anyone who's feeling homesick right now. this one got me good.)
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raze crystalline 211226
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tender_square dear_table 211229
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raze bedtime_tea 211230
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raze momma_from_the_past 211231
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raze solo_flight 220102
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raze the_give 220103
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tender_square ambience 220103
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tender_square anymore 220104
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raze agape 220106
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raze flowers_in_cones 220109
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raze i_want_to_be_fire 220112
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raze ripples 220114
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raze there's_a_battle 220116
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raze transfer 220117
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raze it_was_the_fire 220118
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raze mortality 220119
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raze dublin 220122
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raze embers 220123
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raze amalgam 220124
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raze doggerel 220125
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kerry the_love_that_grows_out_of_secrets 220125
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raze breathe_out_so_i_can_breathe_you_in 220127
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raze _don't_look_now 220128
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raze gray_matter 220131
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raze sunset_cloudy_golden_smoke 220205
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tender_square poet 220206
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raze capped 220207
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raze the_best_moment_of_my_life 220218
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tender_square walls 220219
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tender_square rescinding "walls" because that shit was plagiarized and i don't want to give credit where credit is not due. 220219
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raze from someone who (again) only ever wrote a few things here:

silent_conversation

(check out their gorgeous contribution to the_sadies, too)
220219
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raze defeating_premise 220220
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raze boiled_down_to_a_ralph_stanley_song 220224
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past what_you_were_and_what_you_are

it hits the mood i'm in.
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raze (that's really kind of you to say. i'm glad there's some resonance there. those words hit me in such a different way now than they did when i wrote them. time is such a strange thing.) 220225
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raze surreal_sundays

(e_o_i doing magic e_o_i things.)
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tender_square maze 220227
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raze songs_of_my_childhood 220305
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raze this_book 220310
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kerry silverside 220310
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raze black_cat_music 220311
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raze sleeping_samadhi 220312
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raze woods 220313
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raze pleasant_fiction 220314
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raze a_picture_of_my_mind_on_my_body 220315
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raze kaleidoscopic_and 220317
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past painful_bliss 220319
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raze art_behind_closed_eyes 220321
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raze cannot_bear_the_light_of_day 220324
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raze precious_time 220325
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tender_square sometimes_the_universe_mocks_us 220325
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raze smellivision 220326
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raze echo 220327
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tender_square _feelings_ 220327
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raze tending_gardens

(one of the most beautiful poems i've read anywhere, ever, from someone who apparently only wrote on blather once. what a stunning thing to leave behind.)
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raze hope_falls_in_drops 220331
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raze story002 220402
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raze the_same_star 220404
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raze demeaned_ego 220405
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raze battered_gospel 220409
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e_o_i from_our_garden 220413
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tender_square the_phoenix 220417
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e_o_i Australia (if beautiful = made_me_smile - there's a funny chain at the beginning) 220420
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raze her_tongue 220425
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raze i_miss_you_less_and_less 220502
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raze i_had_them 220503
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raze jamsession 220507
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raze project 220526
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e_o_i mellifluous 220526
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tender_square alcoholic_amphibians 220527
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raze soar 220611
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e_o_i sexy abstraction in lookgoodanddosomethingkinky! 220611
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tender_square scooped by raze in "three_words" today: life_requires_us_to_move 220613
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raze nature_creeps_back_in 220616
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raze and_colours_fade 220617
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e_o_i what_did_the_winter_hide 220617
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raze silence_and_drought 220627
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tender_square in_the_grocery_store 220628
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raze self_harmer

(i think i've read this one about four times since i bumped into it last night. a really brave and powerful howl of pain.)
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raze terry_schiavo 220702
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e_o_i striven_less, especially the beginning 220703
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raze pages 220710
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e_o_i circles_and_stars 220712
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e_o_i also, those_gifts_he_imparts_to_others 220712
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raze the_lake 220713
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e_o_i the_blades_of_a_ceiling_fan 220718
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raze rut 220724
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raze untitled_507 220725
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raze xob2 220726
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raze a_good_summer_for_spiders 220728
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tender_square drunken_nothing 220729
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raze i'm_a_tourist_in_my_own_town 220730
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e_o_i distortion 220730
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raze starless_night 220731
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raze explicit 220811
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raze transcript 220812
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tender_square still_life_with_rainwater 220812
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e_o_i she_hurt_a_sound 220813
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raze glaze 220814
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raze summer_stars 220815
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raze snakebite_sonnet 220817
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raze my_emotions_in_a_journal 220820
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raze the_picture_that_isn't_there 220821
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tender_square sad_too 220821
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tender_square spare_key 220822
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raze bright_shining_rabbit 220826
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tender_square sparrows 220829
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raze moonlit 220830
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raze secret_love_letters_written_in_orange 220903
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tender_square shedding_my_skin 220904
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raze llark 220909
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raze for_the_moments_i_feel_faint 220910
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raze spiral_women 220911
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kerry memail 220912
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raze melting_sounds 220914
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tender_square if_i_haven_t_made_you_fall_in_love_with_me_by_now 220915
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tender_square gah, trying again:

if_i_haven't_made_you_fall_in_love_with_me_by_now
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tender_square meet_me_for_coffee 220916
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tender_square primal 220918
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raze paper_or_plastic 220926
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raze falter 221002
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raze style_of_thing 221004
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tender_square newsom

(r.i.p. to the queen of willistead, and deepest condolences to raze.)
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raze quench 221012
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raze reality_infused_sadness 221020
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raze funeral 221104
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e_o_i My latest three_words brought up a good one: speed_of_a_soul from last year.

I love the line breaks (of all oddly_specific things, but they add to the effect of the words' determination)
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raze no_dice 221107
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tender_square (thanks, e_o_i! red made some of those line breaks for me, unfortunately. i was opting for a 12-syllables in each.) 221107
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raze a_plea 221108
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Soma packaged_memories 221109
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raze moaning_wind 221111
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e_o_i (Oh! Sorry, t_s: I guess putting "single" on a line by itself was blather red's doing. It looked purposeful, though! But most of what I saw was yours - e.g., ending a line with "elbow" and letting the word stand there waiting, like the joint itself waiting to stretch or bend)

and I don't know if this was here before, but the images and ideas in

cosmic_confetti

are painfully relatable, but also playful, if that combo makes any sense
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tender_square vermilion 221113
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raze holding_onto_rags 221115
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tender_square wanderlust 221116
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raze essential_ingredients 221120
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raze trigger 221121
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raze letter_from_away 221123
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tender_square little_wonders_joys_amazements

(i'd love to make this a regular blathe again)
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tender_square guitar_tabs 221125
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tender_square lock 221203
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raze cold_light 221204
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e_o_i all_a_tremble (everyone's images conveying the idea of nervousness + flexibility, at least to my mind) 221204
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e_o_i I try to limit this to one at a time, but...

notorious (kerry paints a picture in a few vibrant lines)
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raze compilation 221210
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raze fog_lifts 221213
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kerry does a year and two months count as buried?
glycerine

(and thanks for the shoutout, e_o_i)
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raze sad_memories 221215
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tender_square one_who_was_never_there 221217
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raze stalker 221222
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raze the_kansas_city_star

(so powerful. so visceral. i wish like hell we could have bijou back.)
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raze the_balloon 221227
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past breath_thief 221227
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tender_square tear 221228
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raze brightest_moon 230102
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raze two_eyes 230104
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tender_square i_m_not_sure 230106
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tender_square let's try that again:

i'm_not_sure
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raze velcro_pancakes 230108
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tender_square dissolution 230112
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tender_square the_couch 230113
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tender_square some_bears 230114
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raze crabcraft 230115
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raze streetside_symphonic 230118
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tender_square send_a_postcard_from_hell 230121
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e_o_i lied_vom_kindsein (a poem with an English translation - I tried reading it in German to start, but there were too many words I didn't know) 230121
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raze tin_roof 230126
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raze if_you_want_to_hear_it

(specifically the first entry)
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raze panacea 230204
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raze endearing_moment 230207
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raze catching_the_moment 230214
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raze what_are_you_thinking 230222
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tender_square i_wear_a_dead_man's_coat 230222
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raze fleshglobe 230228
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raze organs 230301
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raze dawns_early_light 230302
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e_o_i angel_trees 230307
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raze what_would_you_change_if_you_could 230310
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tender_square misnomer 230311
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tender_square the_silent_and_invisible_life 230315
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raze pleasant 230317
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raze ensnare 230322
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raze see_you 230327
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tender_square shed 230328
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raze buckskin_woman 230411
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past letter_not_sent 230413
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raze meet_me_in_eternity 230414
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raze hurrah 230419
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tender_square advice_to_past_self_from_future_you 230428
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raze what_we_talk_about_when_we_talk_about_love 230430
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past under_a_sky_empty_of_threat 230502
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past under_a_sky_empty_of_threat 230502
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e_o_i I missed this last year and I'm glad it came up in three_words now - so well put: if_you've_got_time_and_not_much_will 230523
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raze (i can't believe i missed this until just now. please accept my belated heartfelt thanks, e_o_i. i don't even remember writing that! not one word of it. which is a little scary, because it wasn't *that* long ago.) 230602
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raze want_to 230603
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raze sixty 230611
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raze let_me 230621
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raze shit_lightning

(came for the title, stayed for the gorgeously rendered e_o_i magic)
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raze deserted_ 230704
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raze it_won't_work 230712
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raze artists 230713
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raze things_we_should_have_done 230719
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tender_square tending_gardens

(file under "one_blathe_wonders")
230801
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tender_square looks like raze already blathed that one in march of 2022, but it's just that good it deserves a second inclusion. 230801
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raze i'll say. i still can't believe that person, whoever they were, only ever blathed that one thing (unless they wrote other things using a different name ... but it doesn't seem likely).

i'm digging this one right now from flux:

reniform_puls
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raze reminder 230812
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raze 23_03_06 230815
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raze twelve_years12 230819
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raze matilda_at_the_door

(what bijou wrote here is so raw and vulnerable and honest and searing, i kind of wish no one else had ever touched the blathe)
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raze rockets_find_planets 230827
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e_o_i The two stories in midnight_dipping, years apart. 230903
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raze windmill 230904
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raze stumped 230906
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raze rendered_into_a_painting 230912
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raze spring_mists 230926
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e_o_i la_voix_de_nuit 230930
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raze holding_my_breath_and_hiding

(misstree writes something beautiful, and then megan makes me laugh. i wish we had them both back.)
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raze lush_like_not_here 231002
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raze heal_the_most_broken_of_parts 231006
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raze the_saloon 231012
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raze contemplation 231014
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raze what_the_thunder_said 231025
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e_o_i art_behind_closed_eyes 231101
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raze flare 231106
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raze thener 231117
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raze dementia 231118
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raze car_obituary

(e_o_i just made me mourn the loss of a car i never met. i think that's a first.)
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e_o_i hot_yellow_light 231201
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e_o_i (Oh, and thanks, raze! I forgot I'd even written about Sparky's predecessor.) 231201
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raze try_to_love_me_anyway 231204
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raze broken_dial 231208
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e_o_i blood_red_sharpie_how's_it_gonna_be - and I see it's part of a series I never new existed, making me wonder how much of early red_blather I still don't know 231209
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raze once_again 231210
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raze heroic_acts_don't_have_music_in_the_background 231216
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raze electric_nerve_fluid 231217
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e_o_i skyline_diamonds (by raze in 2013) 231220
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e_o_i disobedient_bastard_micro_rainbow_coloured_monster (by leni in 2007) 231225
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raze specific_interests 231231
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raze lion 240102
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e_o_i time_out_chair 240113
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raze unsaid 240120
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raze rosa 240129
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raze siren_song 240131
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raze my_lesson 240201
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raze allways 240204
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e_o_i le_coeur_episse by leif

...although Google tells me "episse" isn't the word and suggests "Les épices sont bonnes pour le coeur et la mémoire" (spices are good for the heart and for memory).
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raze hitting "from" on cobwebs led me to letting_go_of_it, which led me to what misstree wrote there, and ... jesus christ, the words you people weave and have woven. sometimes you take my breath away. 240223
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e_o_i how_the_little_wonder_feels

(I don't know who they are but what they said about coming to a moment of change resonates)
240224
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warmthofrelease i_just_needed_to_say

(that you were right about bijou)
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raze redness

(some of the most fascinating stones i trip over were left here by people i never even knew)
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raze erm 240310
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raze blp 240314
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warmthofrelease my_solemn_birds_sleep_near_heaven 240314
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raze celebration_of_continuation 240315
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raze housewife_seduces_babysitter 240317
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raze february_car_ramona 240319
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raze when_you_return 240324
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raze not_all_dreams_are_meant_to_come_true 240326
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raze top_o_the_charts_verbs

(a personal journey in ten words)
240328
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raze your_life_is_your_own 240402
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raze thrown_away 240403
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e_o_i lavender_clouds (lostgirl and then kerry) 240404
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raze ldr 240408
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raze all_was_all 240411
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e_o_i run_away (mostly by nom) 240413
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raze real_4

(i knew from the first line this was a poem about richey edwards. it didn't disappoint.)
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e_o_i cr0wl_at_the_ace_nyc

(About a daughter's film school festival and novel luxuries. Granted, I got on this writer's wrong side later when raze called him out for putting others' words here without giving sources and he wouldn't say he did anything unfair, but he also wrote interesting things of his own, a lot from before I started writing here.)

(gaah, I am too wordy)
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raze i've put some of his stuff on this blathe too, though they've come from about six million different names (dude liked his pseudonyms). he did write a lot of good things once upon a time. that always made the whole literary_thief thing doubly strange to me. but i guess some blather mysteries will never be explained. 240421
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e_o_i photos_here_on_my_desk by megan (especially paragraph 3) 240422
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raze compulsion_second 240424
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e_o_i onward

(Surreal flowery descriptions with a two-step rhythm - "bitter tears...humble places...morphing eyes" - that gradually lengthens into more flowing sentences and then retreats. By Sonya.)
240425
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e_o_i re cr0wl: after I just experimented with a short_story here, I found "prooley's_shoes" on three_words. The goofy word flow and neat wrap-up knocked my proverbial socks off. 240427
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e_o_i (unless he stole it from Douglas Adams, I dunno...but I joke, I think) 240427
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e_o_i scandent (by raze) 240429
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raze i remember being proud of that one when i wrote it, but i hadn't read it since then. the me of then and the me of now both thank you.

today, i'd like to nominate better_than_this for the poem kerry wrote twenty_one years ago.
240501
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raze ghost_cats

(i miss birdmad)
240503
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e_o_i me_moment (bandersnatch)

(being in the wrong place, reading)
240503
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