Saturday, May 9, 2026

Planet On-a-Stick

Kinda doowoppy
Electropoppy
Dubsteppy
Afrobeaty
Dancehall-ish
EDM-y.

You know, speed doom
Lone actors radicalized online
Call from that number you’re dead
Or militants, separatists
What the K-9s find
Officials warn.

It’s so funny like
Day after Earth Day
Defense chief killed
Guard fatally shot
Two dead in clashes
Then the “all clear.”


Friday, May 8, 2026

Floor Exercises

Rethinking my wardrobe for next season
I need to get with my food group
Cool kids with Tool tee shirts 
Leveraging legacy frisson  
With neural waveforms based on
My likes and preferences.
Charm meets ease, trenchoat to kicks.

Flashing on them pussyass times
When light footprints was considered virtuous
And if it’s true as Lacan says 
That all desire is based on a sense of lack 
Although the jury is still mostly out and
Down the hall to the left
Much depends upon hitting Send.


Sunday, May 3, 2026

Field Notes

“Inspiration is a state of collection, not creative dynamism. One must allow one’s vision of the concept to settle and clear. I do not think any great artist works in a fever. Even the mystics get to work only after the ineffable dove of the Holy Spirit has already left their cells and is losing itself in the clouds. One returns from inspiration as from a foreign country. The poem is the narration of the voyage.” 

---From Deep Song and other prose by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1932, translated from the Spanish by Christoher Maurer, 1980 (emphasis mine)

I've continued on my sometimes purposeful, sometimes serendipitous trip through literature written in languages other than English (and again super kudos to the translators). 

Purposeful: the Lorca book above and a classic New Directions reprint that arrived in the mail today, A Season in Hell, by Arthur Rimbaud, 1873, translated from the French by Louise Varese, 1945

Serendipitous: these four fell into my hands:

Good and Evil, by Samanta Schweblin, 2025
English translation from Spanish by Megan McDowell, 2025

The Old Fire, by Elisa Shua Dusapin, 2023
English translation from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, 2026

The End of the Sahara, by Said Khatibi, 2022
English translation from Arabic by Alexander E. Elinson, 2026

Waste Tide, by Chen Qiufan, 2013
Translated from Chinese by Ken Liu, 2019

Plus these bangers: 

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, 2002 
The Intentions of Thunder, by Patricia Smith, 2025 poems

It’s been lit the past couple of weeks reading wise.


Saturday, May 2, 2026

Doing the Whole Trad Wife/Frontiersman Thing

Part I

Like two and a half years ago 
Bed, t.v., moonlight
Sound of a dirt bike way back in the hills
We were watching the Olympics that night
Long story short: coat, shoes (beloved labels), ER.

Swiping is now my life
That and sustained mobilization
Reveals replace show and tell
My large language was too big for the overhead bin
So I always have to check it. 

I needa update my priors
Ropes as I learned them are gone
My brands are non-responsive.
Outfit and make-up inspiration unavailable
Non-Op cars covered by weeds in the yard.

With all the recent going ons 
It’s not reasonable to think at 2x speed
It comes down to Ctrl Hi viz hi rizz
How to attend, how to watch
How to exit out.

Part II

Hello oh hi, no, I can talk
You’re going to the Horn
I was just there
Educating Yemen’s Houthi rebel dog parents
On what their pet needs.

Like I told a Shih tzu owner 
Try these hip new twists to 5-star experiences
And when combined with magic
And a couple of eco-friendly cheat codes
It’s what people do in movies.

I call her Assassin 
That ass’a ki’ya
Ran a photo of it through AI
So hot broke the goddam model
Caused a data center to explode.

But she dumped me and
I’m sitting here looking at Tanker Tracker
Tryna stunt my depression
Higher than a mockingbird on loquats
Mogging upper-level crazy on X.



Saturday, April 25, 2026

From Virality to Unscripted Stardom

I’ve got a 3-D computer graphics creation tool
But lately there’s been a downturn in engagement
Idle chocolate is the devil’s food
So it’s time to cameo
I am this, I said
I am that, she said
Test the model  
If satisfactory, deploy directly 
We faced off 
Everything became true at the same time
In another Best Unscripted Miniseries nod.



© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

Randy Stark’s Amazon Author’s Page


Sunday, April 19, 2026

Dot Com Slash Front-Runner

Virtual private network
Creating thems, hybrids
Strike groups of 
Surface-to-air unicorns.

Razor-sharp
High-spirited
Head-bouncing
Mind-warping.

Challenging the narrative
If not with jaundiced orb 
Looked upon at least askance 
Plus fluent in jailbreak prompts. 

Sky-blue loyalty to red-hot 
Life-span enhancing
All-in-one value-packed
Cul-de-sacs of love.


© Copyright 2026 Randy Stark

Randy Stark’s Amazon Author’s Page