STANDARD DISTRIBUTION Averages sentence most to ordinary measures of disappointment: mute car batteries and burnt toast what passes for catastrophe. The benign masses easily distinguished from those exiled to the margins, nature a balanced equation. The scale bends, extremes arcing, electricity pouncing from one prong to the other. Authenticity sounds out of tune the […]
Josh Stewart | THE PACIFIST
THE PACIFIST If you knew, you could crumble empires a wink at a time. True power is not to inspire awe but to corrupt, twist moral gravity until it rains skyward. Your degraded youth stirs fear so potent it threatens to eclipse all bounds of discretion. I prefer to keep you broken in the […]
Josh Stewart | SUMMER AFTER THE APOCALYPSE
SUMMER AFTER THE APOCALYPSE The sun blazes on, brilliant and unsympathetic as the last genius, while the birdsong is unwavering in its hopefulness. I occasionally turn to the empty chair beside me to comment on the glory of the weather before I remember. I measure hunger by the length of shadows crawling the silent […]