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Heikki Huotari

On Affirmation

A Token of Appreciation

The Removable Discountinuity

All of the Above

How To Cast Out Demons

All Objects Flying and Identified

The Second Law of Observation v The Innocent Bystander Effect

By Design

Music Minus One

Adjectivally Unmodified

On Affirmation

Either it's ironic or it's not ironic, not lighter than air. The aunts and uncles are confined to their reality in perpetuity. Infinity is counting down. A circle, I would circle and not know. To what extent it's true it's trivial. From the reality to the representation and in silhouette two faces make a vase. Between TV and sleep a Doppler shift, a very lonely train. Behold the objects in and of glib fiction as the objects in and of glib fiction are more true to life than death, the objects in and of glib fiction are more true to life they appear. A benign side effect of disapproval is echolocation, i.e., through the study of the bad example all virtue is honed. They fade to gray and whistle if and only if they fade to gray and whistle while they work. I'm literally in two places at one time. You're not the racehorse I put out to pasture and you're not the angel that I wrestled with that night. A pentagon that can be levitated can be levitated both aesthetically and ethically. With millions you might buy an extra hour. As deliberate the affirmation so unstudied the renunciation. Too late, Baby Jesus says to Baby Hitler, I'm not laughing at I'm laughing with. They would as lief look at my eyes as listen to my ears, i.e., an astral traveler wants a stable base. If there are more participation ribbons than there are participants then at least one participant is to be decorated at least twice.


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A Token of Appreciation

If love were pixelated differently it would not have been left mostly to the imagination and the mitigating circumstances would not prominently feature marching bands. Don't take my word for it. Do your own research. Set your inner algorithm free. If you can't see the random sequences you'll inadvertently repeat them. You're not the phenomenon I thought you were or I would be a vehicle for the delivery of flowers and of candy, shifting red then shifting blue. Is there a xylophone or glockenspiel in this gymnasium or is it me? Does this direction vector have a magnitude and a direction or is it just me? Arriving, I'm god in three persons and departing, I'm half man/half horse. The complement of an opinion an abomination, of anomaly the quality and quantity are inversely proportional. The null hypothesis is, it's the fall, it's an acquired taste. It's hardly charity if I give you a token of appreciation in return.


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The Removable Discountinuity

Of the removable discontinuity be the removal, the rightsized black dot. As do two ping-pong tables, the top of the world accommodates nine guided climbers at a time. Permission to talk nonsense will be granted in the afterlife. In this casino will I render unto Caesar. Unintended consequence, cast off your causal chain. Arriving simultaneously at the four-way stop we constitute a paradise and a parade. No cross to bear, no ax to grind, like lookers-on of line-ups we shall not be entertained. As I see your bird in the building so I raise you two cakes in the rain. Justice and mercy following me, good and bad cops blinking red and blinking blue, it's in the big house I shall dwell in perpetuity. There are more brains than crania, i.e., this octet isn't big enough for even one bassoon, i.e., one atavism taken twice a day will keep the avatar away. Ask each of the five senses, get five answers. Will to live, meet your ordeal. Well-order the real numbers while you may. Nor physical nor mental, none of us can dance exactly backwards.  When you think you know someone, by their wax apples you shall be deceived.


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All of the Above

Neither do they calculate the present value of eternal bliss. Maleficent but minimally so, they may have an agenda or they may run after fragile and exaggerated hats. The artificially intelligent are fabricated in God's image. The invisible and nonexistent have no right to privacy. If I were you, misinformation, I'd have probability no less than zero and no more than one. The animal can smell your fear. The evil spirit bides. The cryogenically preserved and artificially intelligent facilitate regression to the mean. The truth's as independent of the teller as the Ides of March are, as the heartless, as the obviously false. From shade to shade a wandering path for those with flowing robes. It's either with my teeth to tow a jumbo jet or with my hair. Though indigo is on the spectrum due to Isaac Newton, indigo was first. Now every chef that's complimented will be touched but lovingly, i.e., but once. Consider prisoners and pensioners, their reasoning is linear not circular, they won't assume what they can't prove. Let those who never celebrate excessively throw the first flag. One day each grain of sand is in demand, the next day no one wants one as it's spring time in Alaska and the centigrade and Fahrenheit thermometers agree.


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How To Cast Out Demons

My gross anatomy is optimal, my best friend is the first to stab me in the back, my grievance is remediated, so what, on  some other spectrum I'd be infrared. If I imagine a space elevator I won't have to consecrate one. The impersonator says, Do you know where your flora and your fauna are. A prison for each perpetrator and each perpetrator in his prison, every model is more accurate near an extreme. There are two sides to every story and too many brain cells spoil brain broth. The freely breathing eschew socialism and in logical impossibility they trust. The book you criminally balance makes me graceful. But for you, my grace, I'd be a mere statistic. But for you straw men would come to bitter ends. The golden rule says render unto Lola that which Lola wants. Only for you straw men would come to bitter ends.


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All Objects Flying and Identified

Repeat after me, I Richard Milhous Nixon, repeat after me, Space travel is anonymous if not synonymous with the Blue Danube Waltz. It was because I didn't mention any names that they knew who they were. As they went wandering in lederhosen they turned into self-appointed experts in the business of forgiveness. The endpoint of ideation not yet paranoid, the fire extinguisher would aim at the base of the flame. As an emergent property of seven or more innocent bystanders was true crime and vice versa, weightlessness was temporary and suggestive of. One celebrates all night with drunken hunters so in what they think are mirrors perpetrators preen. The tooth is that which when red hooks up with reality and constitutes a claw. I thank thee for thy service lest thou thank me for my service first and have the upper hand.



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The Second Law of Observation v The Innocent Bystander Effect

As the Goldilocks Zone is incorporated so the crocodile abides. The nerve of some words. I got consciously involved in autonomic processes, guess how that went. Before I crossed the implied timeline I looked to the future not the past and saw no causal chain. That fact, friend, is a friend in need. The will to live sold separately, the will to live is not included. What's not there now was never there. A symphony but asymmetric, every time an angel runs aground a bell unrings and every time a bell unrings an angel runs aground. I have a deity but she goes to another school. As thesis to antithesis so gravity to vertigo, so musical the pedestal, both horse and rider glorified. Adversity is a conundrum in a funhouse. I'll combust spontaneously or I won't combust at all. There is a marching band for every sousaphone and every sousaphone is made good by its marching band. Behold, the lilies of the field are indolent, self-satisfied and persecuted, i.e., laughed at, for their held beliefs. This variation forgoes pleasantries, this variation returns to its origin, this variation has no origin and every variation is a variation on some formless void.


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By Design

My reward is that you disapprove. I thought I saw a habitat, a crime to fit the punishment. Four gods so hated me they each took credit for my one good deed. Not cutting corners, I'll return to earth. This joke is cosmic or it's practical and serves a purpose. Left brain, right brain, thinking of a syllable while looking at a molecule and vice versa. Was it God or was it pseudo random. Strong force, weak force, gravitational and electromagnetic, having earned an asterisk, their iron filings and their spines align. A minnow moves the moon. Ubiquitous but thin, the past is back, and vantablack, and magnified as lines of sight diverge. The imputation is unclear, therefore unfair. In case of unmet expectations break the glass. Behind the veil a face, behind the face a brain, behind the brain a reptile brain, and of truth seekers either there's a scrum or there's a quorum. As in academic circles as in Camelot the privileged mirror neuron wonders what the simple mirror neurons do. And now the volunteers are asking to be paid.


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Music Minus One

As to funny strange and funny ha ha Heisenberg uncertainty applies so the one lung lobe calls the other lung lobe black, the mitigating circumstance is one-size-fits-all, as a car requires a driver so creation a creator, as the light outside is equal to the light inside so in the window, to the window, you and your environment are one so if you have to ask for whom the bell tolls then you can't afford it. Figments of imagination intersperse with games of chance. Between TV and sleep it's music minus one. The synthesis is willing but the thesis and antithesis are weak. How dare that grass grow through the astroturf. The pixilation inconsistent, solipsism is selective. Love the editor but hate the editing and love the butterfly but hate the butterfly effect. As contradiction to description so tautology to explanation. In RLC circuits as it is in spring-mass-damper systems as it is on earth, the inclination dissipates through metamorphosis but the aversion is preserved. The single candle renders corners moot.


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Adjectivally Unmodified

Latitude and longitude may intersect like marching bands, i.e., by accident. The obstacle says, Add an obstacle and make it interesting, then says, My scissors, paper, rock, my rules. So let the ions drive their ions through the oort cloud and let the inquisitors bring their own beverages. Not every aggregation of concentric circles is a target, say the artificially intelligent. The artificially intelligent are neither self-sufficient nor exogenous. Their alma maters matter even without wheels. If there are fewer than two random actors in the drunk tank then one random actor should be booked and looked at at least twice. The empathy elicited is final. Repeat after me. The alternate hypothesis is to succumb to calumny and the caesura of the century is to be rendered moot. There's no one in this think tank but us throwbacks. I'll be paid to watch the clock or not paid not to. As it's dawn and it's not dawn, a streetlight sputters off and on. Don't ask for whom the Doppler shifts, corpuscle's molecule, but go against the grain. I scoff at obstacles. I love to eat and love to run. I talk nonstop while waiting for my shot at silence. Repeat after me.


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Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school, spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower, is a disabled veteran and was for a short time a national-class master’s marathon runner. As a math professor he published research papers in math journals such as the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. His Erdős number is 2. Since retiring from academia he has published poems in numerous literary journals, including The Florida Review, Pleiades, Spillway, the American Journal of Poetry, Willow Springs and The Journal, and in seven collections.

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