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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni is a graphic designer and machinist, whose work is
widely available in print and on the Web. His poetry titles include
The Eternal Journals of Crispy Flotilla, Maybe Wavy and The Sea
of Kicking Legs; Jiggle Fest, a collection of short prose, was released 
in December 2014. The Pinkie Embrace will be released late summer, 
2015.

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Dappled

With a funny English accent, John Turner might have said “The Sun is God” on his deathbed but he
also might have said “The Sun is Good” - and John Turner might have been misunderstood,
because, after all, the sun IS good. There are flowers, and trees, and beaches, and dappled waves,
and flowers plus sun which equal sunflowers and even sunburns and ointments and cancer. But is
the Sun God? In many ways, you can’t beat the sun, no matter what, which makes the sun so
powerful with good, with bad, with all and everything, so perhaps yes, but what matters truly is
whether or not you distinguish between good and god and whether it is even something you care to
do when you are about to say goodbye, goodbye, auf Wiedersehen.

Clear Skies

I knew a fellow named Graham who liked to draw pictures of places but he wasn’t fond of drawing
grass so all his pictures had snow in them. He didn’t like leaves, so luckily the trees were without
leaves in the snow in winter. He was also lucky since he didn’t like to draw birds, that the birds had
flown south because, again, it was winter. It is so quiet and desolate here that you might think that
would be the perfect place for a murder scene but Graham also hated to draw blood and corpses. So
if you look at this drawing you see a lot of snow, a few old trees, and three puffy white clouds.
Graham loved the clouds of winter. Of all the things to draw in the world, clouds were what
Graham loved best. Here’s why: Graham was a cloud with a pencil. In the summer, he was just a
pencil.

Why I Never Stop Reading the Internet

Because it told me that when Hera woke up and found a strange baby at her breast, she tossed him
into the universe and the beautiful heavenly splatter became the Milky Way and he became Hercules.
Also, there is a Whirlpool Galaxy and a Sombrero Galaxy. And some galaxies are “irregular” and
most are made of numbers. And Chaucer came up with the Milky Way but he didn’t spell it that
way. And the “Wieneroni Casserole” was something that people ate in 1962 and it was made with
hot dogs and lemon juice and paprika and Caro syrup.  And LS Klatt coined the term “Pre-Cow”
and “Cows of a higher mathematics.” In addition, you can go to a Pizza Ranch in Iowa, but that
isn’t fair to mention when discussing the internet, because I heard that on the radio, not the internet,
but I did, much later, confirm it on the internet, and then relaxed by looking at a picture of the
internet on the internet, which was a positively ravishing picture of the internet. Also, “your blue
dress, which is lovely tonight...”