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Unknown Error

Connection was strong at first.
Then the signal weakened.
Toot... toot...
The line became busy,
Until it was out of coverage.

So, not to disturb,
It was archived.
No more notifications.
No more waiting.
No more checking.

The promises
And the future they imagined
Became corrupted.
System failure.
Then... 

Connection lost.
The error...
Was never her.
It was zero one two
Five nine three

To restart again... Then... 

No more unknown errors
After the four one eight
The call ended.
She smiled.
The last good thing... 

She shut down
The memories.
And finally...
She rebooted
Her life

Nine three eight six goodbye...

Premium Member red lipstick

(murder mystery or not? In Senryus)

She wore red lipstick,
so their first kiss would be like 
classic cinema. 

She got it on his 
clothes, in case he was, you know,
married or something

“If I were rich I’d
collect beautiful things like
you.” (he'd said.. awkward?)

Her silence was the
most articulate thing that
he’d misread, so far.

He said “you’re so real,”
she thought, “Ok, I’m seen, he gets 
that I am alive.”

She’d archived his chats
like something that might be proof
of a crime someday
.
.
A song for this:
work by no na

Letters from the Extinct

Dear Human,
You knew me once.
I was the shadow crossing grasslands before dawn. I was the thunder of hooves. I was the cry above the marsh.
You named me. Measured me. Photographed me.
Then you archived me.
The museums keep my skeleton polished. The textbooks preserve my dimensions. The children memorize my disappearance.
I would have preferred a future.
Sincerely,
The Last of Us


Premium Member Ephemera Ephemeral

Souvenirs
nostalgic 
heirloom
memorabilia 
archived
muniments
prospectus
paraphernalia
posters
sequestered

Benefaction blight
twinkling trinket
tinged trophy 
         hoisted
 himalayan  style
melancholy monument
meteoric miniscule
              flyby
verdant vestiges
viral vanish

Mayfly
transient
miscellany
evanescent
detritus
fugacious
snippets
antiquarian
bricolage
hodgepodge

Testament atrophied
gossamer gaudy 
        gazumping
languid lodger’s
meretricious milestone
             culminated
artefact assemblage
bowdlerised  bijou
moribund reticule
       abecedarian

Marcescent abstract
mileage mocker
synthetic switch
               unplugging
nomadic nonpareil
reminiscence’s
ineffable
ephemeron
aphoristic
aleatory

Premium Member The Great Unsaid

Lying by the window pane
Staring at the Great Unsaid
Watch the evening fall again
Too serene, couldn’t I instead
Read a book of highest thought  
That would move me back and forth
Over the old Moon I’d float
Going home to sinful earth
Then I’d tell you how it went
All your questions be replied 
Lots of photos I would send
You shall keep them well archived   
But with sorrow my heart’s fraught   
There’s no exit from this stage
By the Great Unsaid I’m caught
Like a blackbird in the cage.

Borrowed Truth

Are you in my head
a thought that doesn’t feel like mine
a memory whispering through me
asking me to see
what I am told is real

If you say I smiled today, it stays stored that way
only if you say so

If you say I sounded gentle
then that is what I was
only if you say so

If you say the moment was warm, it keeps its heat archived in my memory
only if you say so

If you say the light felt right
I stop arguing with the dark
as if it is a language my mind no longer knows how to translate
only if you say so

My thoughts blur at the edges of nightfall
Will you be my sight

I am learning not to see on my own
So whatever you say becomes what I believe

You are my eyes
and I am the version of me you send back to me

because I stopped trusting my own eyes
and now even desire feels like something I was told to want


Assembly Member Irwin Slaves

Now This!

Individual Housing Units – Thousand Oaks
Individual housing units provide scattered site permanent supporting housing to individuals throughout the city of Thousand Oaks. These units are integrated with existing housing and

Stepup.org auctioneers of slaves in Ventura County 

Unincorporated districts outward from Camarillo assembly of value will not rent slave to governor without extortion.


Assembly Member Irwin 
Are you ready to submit the report on earnings 
To Congress?

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District Attorneys

Emancipation of poverty laws
All non surplus delivered posts in native
Landscape are hereby confined 

Loss of reserves is significant


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Premium Member Keepsake

His wedding band: a lifespan archived



AP: 1st place 2025

Premium Member Inheritance of Wind

Written: September 6, 2025

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The wind does not knock—  
it slips through the soul’s lattice,  
a breathless envoy  
from the hush between stars.

It strokes the cheek
such as a spirit reliving purity, 
then fades away, 
becoming simply a whisper 
of a melody sewn into stillness.

My terms come apart 
in the string of stems, 
where faint words 
weave between tufts of grass 
that curl with hymns 
that are lenient to say.

Birdsong flows
from lungs in rooms full of people—
a hymn to the untamed, 
to the pain that hums 
simply seeking to be felt.

Love, in its most genuine form, 
surpasses the structure of cognition— 
It resides in the root of air, 
in the rhythm of the intangible.

No note is ever lost—  
each tender tremble,  
each faltering flight,  
is archived in the breath  
between dusk and dawn.

We save our dreams.
In the shaft of the Horizon, 
in sparkles that linger 
on the verge of entropy. 
These are the germs of tomorrow 
tumbling in the blood 
of the eternity we dare to call.

Contrition poem

I sit beside and beneath him
Shares of summers serum
Fertility losses in learned minds
Obstacle of flight
Preying mantis aside apparition 
A bliss of evolution 
In this life I ink wisdom
His beast 
His lesson
Wills of no evolution
All lost timber and xine


He branches in timbers waving
Beginning his garden
As he transmorgaphies 
He will be calm
Crappling extension of time
Tampering without
Illusive void in wings

Your message has been received. 
Thank you for contacting my office

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Supreme Court examination item

Supreme Court examination of homeless budget item


Good is one crime


Is that what your saying?
Finish that sentence on your own.

Finding out what someone else cannot do?
All the financial crimes currently committed 

By not taking part in another's process of speech and records 
I hold no errors in law

Forfeit the matter of the document is not and is public 
Without opinion

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Perhaps the Georgia 5th Sees Us Hearing

If California may hear
In between eyes clerical 
     and Justices Repeal 
Both names
    Have been titled
Titled as an altered code
    and violation of building standard
Becomes currency
     Contempt of Congressional Ledger
          Perhaps suffices

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Thank you for your message. It has been sent. ( Congress )

This is a law
Poverty law
Poverty of dwelling on a matter
A matter of worth
Creating a slaves hide

Your message has been received
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Wes Moore

Bernie Sanders 

Elizabeth Warren

Included in the update sir
As written to Tim Kaine of Virginia


Message Sent!
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Email verification of transmission between The Supreme Court 
And myself

Many and first as witness to Presidential crimes

Your experience in today 
Change is not to be brought forth
Journal and starvation are framed
One mustn't and must speak 
Afforded 
The free press is after force of entry
Into location as advertised

"presidential crimes"
Can't is military discipline 
Poverty is defined as can't
The United States can't unite
A document of a dollar in the poverty 
The war is lost

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The executive order executes the executive obstruction 
Homekey

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Premium Member Tumultuous Archived

Black and blue memories turn to sunset;
All of the craziness that we’ve survived,
it’s like I’ve been branded by our secret;

So many roller coasters we just thrived, 
as long as we rode down them together;
The tumultuous my heart has archived;

We aren’t exactly birds of a feather, 
but two sets of wings still fly parallel;
Painting the sky in all types of weather;

My body reflects that rock solid spell,
those faded colors now a rebel yell.

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