Jonathan Ball's Blog, page 24
September 2, 2018
Scorpio
On your coffee break Volunteer to get the drinks And then poison them
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Sagittarius
It may sound like a Cruel gag, but poison always Guarantees chuckles
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Capricorn
Erato, muse of Erotic poetry, wants To start a website
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Aquarius
You can’t have any Of my cherry cheese danish But you can have death
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Pisces
Logically, you Can first have the cake, and then Eat it—problem solved
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Aries
Soon, progress on your Research into the mating Habits of losers
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Taurus
The mice in your walls Are fed up with hearing you Clomp around all day
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Gemini
Once you perfect that Robot cock fighter you will Regret time wasted
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August 29, 2018
Touch to Affliction (Nathalie Stephens)
Nathalie Stephens's Touch to Affliction is similar to There by Roy Miki (see review here); however Stephens is more successful at marrying the poetic and political together. Although the book suffers from a similarly joyless approach, Stephens pays much more attention to craft, sentence by sentence. There's a surrealism and imagism in the background of Stephens' [...]
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August 26, 2018
Virgo
These human heads do Make great bookends—I have to Admit I was wrong
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