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Gerhard
is 51% done
One can’t, after all, be messiah forever. Eventually, the ball club needs a fresh message, a fresher messenger, fella in a silk suit maybe, a Carolina drawl, maybe another mother appointed chairwoman of the Pietà.
— Feb 12, 2026 02:06PM
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Gerhard
is 71% done
The Billy Graham Elegy
Nobody much mentions the floor of the Sistine Chapel
that’s touched so many more than the docents
or the ceiling or the premonitions on the wall. Come papal loafer
and heathen sneaker, come Ked and ECCO
mingling dog shit off the viale e strada on this scuffed stone...
— Feb 13, 2026 10:46AM
Nobody much mentions the floor of the Sistine Chapel
that’s touched so many more than the docents
or the ceiling or the premonitions on the wall. Come papal loafer
and heathen sneaker, come Ked and ECCO
mingling dog shit off the viale e strada on this scuffed stone...
Gerhard
is 34% done
It gets so you wish there were actual
barbarians at the gate, anyone to crush with a mace,
but there is no gate, not one guy in a pelt
banging with any malice; just dad bods
and threenagers storming the bouncy castle.
— Feb 11, 2026 02:30PM
barbarians at the gate, anyone to crush with a mace,
but there is no gate, not one guy in a pelt
banging with any malice; just dad bods
and threenagers storming the bouncy castle.
Gerhard
is 21% done
Don’t blame me, cupcake, I voted for the other guy.
But somebody still has to pay for this shit.
— Feb 11, 2026 01:27PM
But somebody still has to pay for this shit.
Gerhard
is 15% done
When you sack the villain’s estate,
you have to raid the villain’s kitchen.
You dress in his topcoat and drink his gin.
You set his horses free and drive them
home through the rain. You see?
— Feb 11, 2026 01:23PM
you have to raid the villain’s kitchen.
You dress in his topcoat and drink his gin.
You set his horses free and drive them
home through the rain. You see?
