Thursday, August 27, 2026

A River Runs Effluent

Among tentpoles in mild grade backcountry
A river runs effluent in fan fest additives.
Combos and plates.
Sizzling nachos of brisket or pulled pork.
Bacon wrapped carne asada
Hot Philly or Hawaiian Baja style.
Jumbo hot dogs and giant kielbasa.
Spinach lemon chicken breast.
Crab garlic fries
Served smothered
With grilled onions or
In a warm pita with tzatziki sauce. 
Cole slaw, street corn.
5-layer mac and cheese.

But then I thought
You know what
Fuck fan fest
Fuck watch parties
I’ve totally done this before
I want to attend the actual event
I want to have that crazy status
That it takes to get in
To be fucking dope as fuck
Like a breakout content creator 
And your franchise is 
JUST SO HUGE
That your shit is featured in video games
And you arrive pre-acclaimed.


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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

The Norm is Actually Never

And you’re up to your eyeballs in 
Out of network billing
Or to put it in terms of tomatoes
Tim and Terri in Tennessee tell me 
They’ve got four hundred Jolenes and 
Twice that many
Defiants climbing everywhere
Or you got AI hackists chipping at your system
Guardrails are wet noodles
Centipedes with diabetes
Mushy rotini with legs.

I could troubleshoot and debug all day long
When sleep became an industry
Night tripped and fell
And a voice commanded a hassle-free flush
(Alas no more reflections from a toilet handle)
Franchises and brands applied 
A chokehold on the cusp of peace
The people here, they told me look
You’re about to find out for yourself what 
Millions have known for millennia
A whole library of it.


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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Feeling Discoverable

Small batch, small ship
A whole new level of drip
In a global brand campaign trip.

Privileged but not immune
Flowing like silk robed lava
Barefoot on rare earths.

For as surely as sect follows schism
When the destination is unwavering
Routes are infinite, vectors robust.

And karma brings saffron cybersecurity
Come winger, come refugee
Grow with me.

 

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Monday, August 24, 2026

4x3


FLAKY

Important update
Do not reheat or refrigerate
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HE SAYS HI

I told him I’d be visiting you
Had she known she would totally
Have said Hi too.


GRAPHING MY ARC

Pretty much a forever horizon
I pretty much stayed put 
Let the scenery pretty much shift around me.


IT’S SO WEIRD THAT

I might but
I probably might
Not at the same time.



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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Recent Inspo

“I am so hip even my errors are correct”
---Nikki Giovanni


Hunchback, by Saou Ichikawa, 2023
English translation from Japanese by Polly Barton, 2025

She Who Remains, by Rene Karabash, 2018 & 2026
English translation from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel, 2026
 
Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey, 2023
 
Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun, by Mónica Ojeda, 2026
English translation from Spanish by Sarah Booker, 2026




  
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Saturday, August 22, 2026

Strange Interlude Dude

 Thinking

                        bitterly

                                    good naturedly

Thinking

intensely

                        irritably          

                                                Thinking

                                   remorsefully

indifferently

indignantly

Thinking

                        immediately

                        dazedly

                        keenly

 Thinking

with

sudden

            guilt

Thinking

               with melancholy interest

                        with desperate rancor

                        with bitter hatred

Thinking                    

                        with a dull fatalism

            with a sneer

with a deadly calculation

                                    Thinking

                        sadly

yearningly

                                                cautiously

                                                            cynically

                                                                        desperately

Thinking with a strange

strident, wild passion

Thinking

with a smile

of cruel triumph

Thinking

exultantly.

 

 THE END


Strange Interlude Dude received its World Premiere on June 10, 2026 with the following cast:

Jude (Takashi Nadami)
Tess (Jalzo’nel Mbezzi-Hazareesingh)
Frankie (Avetis Davtyan Farahanipour)
Annette (Gohar Razanig)
Bob/Bobbi (Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei)
Randy Stark (himself)
Person of Interest One (Farzin Caballero)
Person of Interest Two (Yulia Grabovskaia)



Strange Interlude Dude (2026) is inspired by stage directions from Act Eight, Scene 1, of Strange Interlude (1928) by Eugene O’Neill

© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

www.randystark.com

Randy Stark’s Amazon Author’s Page




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Friday, August 21, 2026

Dessert

I’m very whatever
Until I don’t
See yeah so no I

Found myself engaging
With my vertical video experience
At a first amendment fan event 

Proselytizing, normalizing, validating
Ok I was – yes
Just to be abundantly clear

It’s kind of multi-layered
It’s kind of two-fold
And it deepens as I dream

Now something is telling me by
Sending a plume of smoke into the air
That I’m building my streak

Early rain flocks it down old school
Bouncing off the top then
Bam vertical off the blue

Interactive, immersive, cross media,
And I’m here with Hamid
From Security and Infrastructure

Secure in the feeling
The ice cream cake
Is secure in the freezer.


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