SOARAWAY SHOO ON WEDNESDAY

Man Does Thing
- Reuters

    A MAN shocked bystanders today by doing a thing.
Onlookers at the Place Somewhere were astonished when A Man came and began to do what turned out to be a thing. The man, who appeared to be a human man, made several movements and noises consistent with the process of thinging, before leaving the scene.
"I could not believe my eyes," said a lady, also apparently human, "I've seen it many times before, of course, but never just now and not in that exact place."
Police attended the scene but could not establish whether it was.

SOARAWAY SHOO would like to hear from you! Were you there? Is it? Did a man? A thing? Call out to a higher deity and we'll print the best replies in a future issue. Now go away you filthy ape.

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I have learned some things.

That peaceful lunacy is a common default state at home; to accept online monstrous rage is en vogue,

That a blank page is often just a blank page; to scribble and soil it is a very human urge,

And terraced quantum doors hide love and loneliness.

To what end are these thoughts?

To suspect there are no certainties at all; but to chase the same is deliciously pointless,

To burn and tear at midnight’s feral zoom; but immortal only in those unacknowledged moments,

Tubes fizz and burst, days blazing, pupil-wide intimations.

And what else can there be.

There are as many revelations as there are snowflakes; we walk in an enervating storm of ice-rash falsity,

There are truths as numerous as grains of fucking sand; we crush them under our bloated hams and haunches,

Devouring and destroying as only we were born to do.

And what use is it all?

All flesh and aspirations turned inward, atrophying along with dreams, and a million more ready to join this pointless battle

All the while adding poison of thought, word and deed; stamping wholesome, handsome filth unto the rotted vestigial echoes

Of the generations failed before, and before, and before.

[Note: this piece was titled by Rusty Shooman, whose previous work is here]