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.


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.

 

Monday, August 24, 2026

4x3


FLAKY

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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.



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




  

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




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.


Thursday, August 20, 2026

The Wheels of the Front Facing Video Go Round and Round

If you’re one of those people who 
Can’t help but think
Birds chirp
Your elbow hurts
Part of you starts to wonder
And there goes your knee
Is it the shapewear
Might the electrolytes be 
Bypassing built-in guard rails? 

Let me leave you with a little something
Fuck that lift point
My deep fake defense coordinator 
Slipped its digital leash
So we can show our love and support by helping you
Power your ambitions and cultivate bonds
You will learn to slow aging by hydrating clarifying and brightening
With iconic brands and ionic franchises and wellness scores
Image generation tone shifts are like giving candy to a baby.

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On our website just go to cloud environments
Click on cyber capability
Paid plans, bundles, edibles
And start receiving all the hallucinations
Plus the frisson of single payer passion and vision
Always elevated, intentional and auto-dubbed
Compliments of some crazy scraping by our rogue force multiplier
You’ll never be without wearables again.