Randy Stark

Superspreader. Foundational. Existential. Essential. Positivity. Capacity. Mandate. Variance. Assertion. Retraction. Data. Bubble. Zoom. Surge. Science Intervention. Curfew. Order. Confinement. Lockdown. Quarantine. Isolation. Stages. Phases. Waves. Mandatory. Testing. Tiers. Roadmap. Framework. Victims. Never. Could. Might. If. Vaccine. © 2021 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road Media.

Don’t expect him Not to not pick up. It’s not very not like him not to answer. Not a whiff of self-awareness. Unemployed, hooked on feed and flow. Data driven, axioms to grind, A source familiar with the matter Speaking on condition of anonymity Due to not being authorized to not know what is not known

This week They said last spring. By Easter. Stage one, phase five, third wave, second tier, key indicator seven.   The next eleven days Was three months ago. And summer. Stage two, phase thirty-three, fourth wave, first tier, key indicator twelve.   Assignments may occur any day of the week And may occur more than

SAFETY IS OUR GUARANTEED   Keep smile.     DEVOUTLY TO BE WISHED   No early termination fee.     FEELING CHILL   I’m two flash sales and a survey away from Up to 70 percent more points.     IT SNOWED ON US LAST YEAR   Five inches.     HARD NOSED RULE OF

KITA   Kita over here honey. Kita over here. Kita. Over here baby.     ADOLPH   And he had another dude with him. They’re still making money.     BUDDHA   I really like him a lot.     LEXIE CAAN   Wordsmithereen.     GISELLE   She knows my hair so well.  

WHAT SETS ME APART   My poems are hand scooped.     FIVE POETS   Twice tonight Ojibway has come up. And not only about birch bark canoes.     WHALES AND ELEPHANTS   Largest brains. You don’t see them writing poetry, do you?     SHE’S GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT   Writing’s not that easy.  

Hat Trick Plainsong, by Kent Haruf, 1999 Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat, 2007 The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich, 2020 Honorable Mention Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud (trans. James Strachey), 1930 Foxtrot in Kandahar, by Duane Evans, 2017 Chasing the Light, by Oliver Stone, 2020 Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and

We had dropped someone off at the airport earlier in the evening and were just rolling through Los Angeles before heading home. Saw a bar that looked jumping, so we stopped. We are white and we are hetero. We discovered the bar we were walking into was black. And not only was it black, it

Bitingly bold visionaries paired With a team on the ground And new ground rules.   There’s Lilith from Lilith has Three Bboys. Perusing the Popol Vuh. She is so babe.   Hongo, one of Lilith’s three bboys, Mr. Breathe Faster and Hope it Goes Away, Wakes bezaggled every choresy morning.   There’s Leonardo de Capricorn