Lily Vakili

1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

   I see you, October (opens the original)

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   I dream of going on tour like androids dream of electric sheep (nod to spooky favorite: writer Philip K. Dick). I imagine the day by day travel & lodging logistics, the loading & unloading of gear, the strange & sometimes wonderful motels/vrbos/airbnbs, and, most attentively, I consider the small cap music venues we play in, the places strewn (fewer and fewer) out across the trobadours’ travel road, holding on for dear life in an AI-troubled world of our own making that loudly proclaims the grea

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2. Issue · Aug 2, 2026

   Thoughts in late Summer (opens the original)

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   There are 3 creative icons who sustain and keep me company when the days are humid and long: Billie Holiday, Buster Keaton and Chet Baker. An unrelenting strain of sensual, disheveled, sorrowful elegance spools from each one. This is why I love them. This is why, when my own powers falter, confronted with the incongruity of existence, the tediousness of flat minds, or the torment of an unexpected pothole, I consider not the Lillies of the field, though they are my namesake and beguiling, but the

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