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Bewildering Offspring

Essays, poems and other loose collections of words aiming to smooth out my own rugged investigations into the realities and virtualities of person-hood. Because life is bewildering.

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  1. Issue · Jul 8, 2026

    Déformation professionnelle : typist (opens the original)

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    people are the punctuation to the prose of our lives,the semi-colons that release you into the next parts of yourself;the ellipses that leave you wondering…(the parentheses you don’t see coming)all the question marks?if a lover is an exclamation point, a husband is a full stop.you try to write your own story(read: choice; empowerment; self-actualization)but it makes no sense without punctuation.your self-actualized life—interrupted by an untimely em dash that takes you to the next pageor sends y

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