Tag: video
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To Life: “the Rescue”
I ache from the blaster volley. The Beskar held. More importantly, the kid is alright. We watch the figure in black together. He slices through dark trooper after dark trooper with a cold precision I’ve never seen. His emerald laser sword deflects blaster bolts with ease, and cuts through armor like it’s not even there.…
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A Collective Invitation
“We are the Borg. We will add your technological and cultural distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile” Star Trek: First Contact You have heard our call before. Some of your best became our own. Picard. Janeaway. Data. Many times you contested our invitation. System J-25, in your uncharted space. Wolf 359. Earth. We return…
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My Daily #Haiku (3/9/23)
3/9/23: chess Equinox a knight’s fork ends his queen #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #SearchingForBobbyFischer
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A Night of Mid-90’s Nostalgia: a #quadrille #haibun
An unsentimental, staccato trumpet sounds out from a coffee bar jukebox. The click of que-ball against stripe joins the ominous rhythm accompanying the melody line. A milk steamer hisses: a gurgled, high-pitch screech drops in tone. A murmering audience gathers for an Open Mic. Welcome to Caffeine Jones… “Bitches Brew” a sip of cappuccino before…
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My Saturday #Senryu (4/3/21) #nationalpoetrymonth
4/3/21: unprompted empty bottle Billy, does she really cry more? #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo2021 #glopowrimo2021
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#SilentSaturday (8/8/20)
A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!
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These Mom Revolutions
Hungry mothers marched toward the Russian captial in Petrograd. They demanded bread, provisions for their sons fighting on the Eastern Front in WWI. Cossocks and local police attempted to turn them back. Some officer ordered young, inexperienced, and under equipped soldiers to fire into the crowd. But when they looked down their rifles’ gunsights, they…
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Seeing Broadway
Is it the Broadway we want to see? Bustling theaters, sidewalks filled with tourists that line up with their pre-purchased tickets, the costumed characters harassing visitors for a photo. Is it the Broadway we see? Empty streets and sidewalks, darkened theaters, the cavernous echo of a once bustling midtown. Is this the Broadway we will…
Frank J. Tassone 