Wish (1kd)

We had a record hot and dry summer in Washington. Just this week we have finally been getting the rain and cooler temperatures we so desperately need in western Washington, though much of the state is still burning—literally.

Education—Mass Killing (1kd)

Sent from my Optima Humber 88

Every Day a Burial (1kd)

Sent from my Everest Mod 90

Wish (1kd)

Sent from my Consul 221.1

The Final Call (1kd)

Sent from my Ideal Portable M

Chase (1kd)

Sent from a not-so-mysterious typewriter

The Fall (1kd)

no moral was damaged in the making of this poem

sent from my torpedo 18b

Sleek and strange black wonder

1951 Voss 51 26596

When I got this it looked nice, but it didn't shine. An (I won't say quick because it took me an hour) application of oil to the smooth surfaces brought the true beauty back to this machine.

A Voss question—I have noticed both with this and the gullwing Voss I owned a few years ago that when using a brand new well-inked ribbon, there is some smearing of ink on the page. I do not experience this problem with very many typewriters using my ribbons, but it plagued both Vosses I've owned. Is this a known thing?

Sent from my new Voss 51

Rector Mackenzie (1kd)

unedited excerpt from my unpublished 2012 book of poems entitled A Thousand Deaths.

all meaning you derive from this work is subjective.

typed on my Olympia SM3 De Luxe

Superior rotary printing press (with video)

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I found this Superior Ace printing press in unused condition; it had never been inked. Amazingly, the bottle of ink was still good! If you're older, you might remember these from your childhood as tedious, messy machines. They are both of those things. But fun anyway… W and I printed out a pair of poems that I wrote in 2012.

These weren't supplied with very many pieces of rubber type—in order to print the second poem, I had to borrow a few esses from the first, removed as you can see in the picture above. The press came with all of the original books and tools. Apparently you could order other typefaces for it…shame I can't send off for them at $1 each set today!

Sent from my Superior Ace printing press

I know where the summer goes

To borrow the title from a very good song.

And to be ridiculous, and provide a senseless answer to this.

Sent from my Royal Aristocrat

The grey wall of sound

Composed on my Optima Super

This is just one of many useless poems; it's up to you if they have meaning.

If there are so many scars

we do not know about her scars; she the Consul girl hides them with sleeves 

Sent from my Olivetti-Underwood Studio 44