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High Alert after barely escaping the draft, after Nancy Walker stood up for TMS Some are called to service. Those in service are aspiring to be more. I’m unable to identify place meant for my subconscious. I discover it only when dreaming. I’m occasion- ally called out, away from my count- try for bounty. I can’t believe what chanced there (once?). I’ll never for- get how hard I had to try to forget. I was completely exposed, taking o- orders, running around and around. All m

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I’m sitting on the fence at the bottom of the garden, absentmindedly munching an apple I twisted from the tree on the way down. “Always twist, never pull,” Ma said yesterday, “that way you know you’re getting a ripe one. If it doesn’t twist, it isn’t ready.” Ma lived in the country when she was a kid so she knows these things, but it’s all new for me. We used to live near Manchester before – in a flat up three flights of stairs. There was a lift but it didn’t usually work and

If I was belly-based, I could spend my days sculling in lush pools of gut fauna, warm and safe beneath my own flesh roof. But I chose for my space the cranium, famed for its panoramic views, its proximity to tongue and tears, its sweet private access via the top flight of the spine. Each day, a billion stimuli send me scuttering up the rungs of my neck, hot as a bugged weasel, squashing seven skewed vertebrae in my rush. And when there is danger - a meeting, a journey, a deci

O Weary Sailor For Austin at night I hear the rested waves awaken stretch their arches across one another open their throats and roar o weary sailor out there amongst the phantasmagoric fog against the brush of the moon’s backhand do you think of me o weary sailor do you think of us of our names whispered along the sea breeze of our feverish need carried out by the crash of the tides reaches o weary sailor can you hear those waves their mighty call to us lapping their wet ton

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Sascha Engel is the founder and editor of Strukturriss, an Ireland-based journal focusing on anarchic dissolutions of text. After teaching in U.S. higher education for a while, he now writes semi-human word structures which have been published in the Centre for Experimental Ontology, Streetcake, Beir Bua, and Tattie Zine, among others. Twitter: @ThinkContinuum