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title: Fresh Off the Dry and Airy Ripple

Words / 2026 Variety

slug: fresh-off-the-dry-and-airy-ripple
format: raw
locked: true
date: 2026-04-24
register: sound-writing
notes: Second piece of the LitUp-adjacent body of work. Pairs with "Our Sense(s)" as companion. Where the first piece adds the plus to the shrug, this one questions whether the unshrugging is viable and closes on wishful pondering. The third stanza metabolizes the collaborator's diagnostic language back into practice voice — the O'metabolism pattern at full volume. Goal per elder: reader/receiver has fun. One correction applied after initial lock: "argueing" → "arguing" per elder's standard that misspellings which could read as typos get corrected; only sound-writing breaks that clearly do work stay.
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Fresh Off the Dry and Airy Ripple

o'Ose ... Yes ... because specifics are spent on stanza stands ... SSSS ... Build something fresh that doesn't close on water ... Gluteus Maximus ... God tell us and them about the ethics of structured and nonstructured unconditional signing ... sign work ... ( shrug ) ... Let this end in resignation ... This is not good for America ... So where should the foundation of our remote makeshift shelter be ... On what ground should we exist going forward?

Loving character of ... ( ) ... blank ... missed stance ... Weirdly arguing for more immediate discipline ... inside a hard pull and deprived corner of a very cold intersection ... Now for something completely dishonest ... we want to explain why weakening strong locks are becoming sturdy sacks for gambling coinages ... Is that the best that this piece can do? ... Read the misery of ruin out ... and notice where your own mouth pauses.

Something that is more rare than usual ... turning on the ... CCC ... conscious collaborating creator ... Stay fully inside the sound and image voice ... Pushback all hissing ... then interrupt empty body parts ... dignified principles that govern behavior ... add a positive plus sign to your shrug ... Question whether un shrugging is too easy to be viable today ... A practice that only adds excessive cheerfulness becomes its own form of saccharine ... high-risk stuck sentimentality ... Take a lunch break for one line to something that returns as a hard move ... and lands the receiver on their backside ... ( wishful pondering ).

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