Nanos Valaoritis
President Chromosome
The news that the microscopic world had taken over came late at night and here is the message we all heard hanging on radios for dear life or death:
THIS IS YOUR CHROMOSONE PRESIDENT TALKING TO YOU FROM YOUR NEAREST DNA STATION. KEEP CALM. OUR TAKE-OVER WILL SAVE YOU FROM YOUR FATAL FLAW. YOUR GIGANTIC STATURE. YOU WILL SOON BE REDUCED TO PROPER SIZE. THEN WE WILL START ALL OVER AGAIN WITH A NEW EXPERIMENT OF EVOLUTION WE SINCERELY HOPE WE WILL SUCCEED BETTER THIS TIME. WE APOLOGIZE DEEPLY FOR THE INVONVENIENCE YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH. WE WILL SEE TO IT THAT YOU DON’T GROW LARGER THAN YOUR THUMBS. YOUR PRESENT DISTRESS IS UN-SOLVABLE IN YOUR OWN TERMS. HAPPILY WE ARE STILL HERE WATCHING OVER YOU ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN AWARE OF IT UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY. ANY ATTEMPT TO RESIST WILL BE CRUSHED IN THE BUD AND SEVERELY PUNISHED DO NOT INTERFERE WITH OUR TIMELY INTERVENTION. YOU WILL REGRET IT. LONG LIVE THE THUMBLINGS..
SIGNED PRESIDENT CHROMO
FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE OF SOMES.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The