CHAPTER 14 of THE ANEMONE SIDECAR - Ravenna Press
CHAPTER 14 of THE ANEMONE SIDECAR - Ravenna Press
CHAPTER 14 of THE ANEMONE SIDECAR - Ravenna Press
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Paul Watsky: Encryptions<br />
Despite drizzle, woodpeckers work<br />
a small pear tree up against the lotline's<br />
quondam privet<br />
hedge supplanted<br />
by brambles. A woodpecker's<br />
tongue wraps around inside<br />
its skull to cushion the brain against<br />
headaches, so it doesn't forget<br />
its password to the other<br />
side, to where grubs cradle beneath<br />
bark. No password, no<br />
access, and all manifestation has,<br />
it seems, another side—with checkpoints<br />
staffed by Satan-surrogates<br />
drooling to interfere: passwords<br />
to the other side <strong>of</strong> rain, to<br />
the image bank, to the customized<br />
wiring <strong>of</strong> your private personality. It<br />
can be fatal if you hang every<br />
account on one reiterated<br />
specimen <strong>of</strong> code, futile as well<br />
painstakingly varied paper<br />
master lists vulnerable to identity<br />
thieves or dropping<br />
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