HeyJaredCaptain Cat's Chat - By Alex Oliver
Add-Free, Unpretentious Free-Form poetry - with occasional associated essays, audio, and or illustrations - soon to include a podcast
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 9
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 19, 2026
Latest issues
A little Interesting lecture on Billy Collins… (opens the original)
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Imagine an exam or test where results are instantaneous. That you can retake - even parts of - until you get it right (or you’re satisfied/fed up n quit). My indifference to the artificial has opened useful doors. Is it better to love or loathe, rather just shrug?I’ll shoot the fox now and suggest that if your views on anything are too intense (not just highly enthused), you have indeed, shot it yourself. It cannot run it cannot hide it cannot turn to you and show its true colours. Forget protes
One Dark Summer - Re-Issue 3 (opens the original)
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Steiner, Hubbard, Hubble (opens the original)
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Plough Your Own Furrow (opens the original)
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August Wind (opens the original)
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