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Monday, October 12, 2026

waving goodbye

by bofa xesjum






conquerors are red
gladiators are blue
ubermen are fake
fighting men are true

assassins are indigenous
barbarians are kind
kings are empathetic
swordsmen pay nobody no mind

king judas grew flowers
a nomad trampled on them
a gothic gladiator
put them in a trashcan and wheeled them away

an invincible hero and a lovable rogue
found a true hero sleeping in a bog
the prince of darkness suddenly remembered
the villain who stole his dog

the dog remembered the earthquake
it happened on his birthday
he could not blow out all the candles
and the word went to hell in a handbasket

the handbasket sat in the attic
until the war was over
people cheered in the streets
and waved their checks for a million dollars





Thursday, October 1, 2026

mononghohela


by nick nelson






i decided to go into the office

and then leave

just to put the collosseum back

before shelley and 56432 saw me

at first, everything went smooth

there was no one on the elevator

i could see hurkis amd globular through the door.

but they did not see me

i put the collosseum back in my desk

but when i went back into the lobby the elevator was gone

and the elevator door was gone

don’t panic, i told myself

hurkis and globular were still talking

hurkis said something and globular laughed

mona, holding a styrofoam cup, joined them

how i hated them all

i crept over to the stairwell door

thankfully, it opened

now i was in grover’s old office

with the thick carpet on the floor

from turkey or afghanistan or somewhere

there was a big monongohela on the floor

the biggest i had ever seen in my life

i could hardly make my way around it

now i was in the old reception area

but where was the door?

i was lost again, really lost this time

it is the story of my life

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why does everybody hate me?

i never did anything to them