Adrian D'Ambra
@iamkomombo.bsky.social
Poet
Author of the self-published volume of poetry 'The Flowers of Impotence' (1983), 'Cavafy's Room' (Nosukumo, 1987), and numerous unpublished manuscripts. A long time between drinks...
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Author of the self-published volume of poetry 'The Flowers of Impotence' (1983), 'Cavafy's Room' (Nosukumo, 1987), and numerous unpublished manuscripts. A long time between drinks...
https://englishliteratureteacher.wordpress.com/
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EVENING NEWS: Fascinating how immaculately uniformed and well-armed the combatants on both sides in civil wars often end up looking. Clearly, someone else is almost always benefiting and profiteering from the suffering of the ordinary civilians caught between them. Blood money runs the planet.
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
EVENING NEWS: Fascinating how immaculately uniformed and well-armed the combatants on both sides in civil wars often end up looking. Clearly, someone else is almost always benefiting and profiteering from the suffering of the ordinary civilians caught between them. Blood money runs the planet.
Wonderful image from the Archibald Prize exhibition in Geelong.
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Wonderful image from the Archibald Prize exhibition in Geelong.
Would Heraclitus have been surprised by the randomly inconsistent behaviour of subatomic particles? I think not.
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Would Heraclitus have been surprised by the randomly inconsistent behaviour of subatomic particles? I think not.
We must also love and make, love and make, love and make
For if we then seek to transform the world without first loving it and life
Then we can only ever recreate the enslavement and misery
That we thought we sought to overthrow and liberate
- from 'Fragment 14'
For if we then seek to transform the world without first loving it and life
Then we can only ever recreate the enslavement and misery
That we thought we sought to overthrow and liberate
- from 'Fragment 14'
Gigi Masin - Tears of a Clown [Italy, Ambient Synth] [1986]
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Gigi Masin - Tears of a Clown [Italy, Ambient Synth] [1986]
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October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We must also love and make, love and make, love and make
For if we then seek to transform the world without first loving it and life
Then we can only ever recreate the enslavement and misery
That we thought we sought to overthrow and liberate
- from 'Fragment 14'
For if we then seek to transform the world without first loving it and life
Then we can only ever recreate the enslavement and misery
That we thought we sought to overthrow and liberate
- from 'Fragment 14'
The great telluric pull, the mystery before the impulse
Before the flood, after the inundation, the constellation of Cassiopeia
And the faces of Anubis and Night above the crypt
Eyes locked across the universe of blue and black, across the universe
Before the flood, after the inundation, the constellation of Cassiopeia
And the faces of Anubis and Night above the crypt
Eyes locked across the universe of blue and black, across the universe
Aurora Borealis – Aurora Borealis (Part 1 & 3) [FINNLAND Ambients] (1997) Obscure ambient gem very much in the style of KLFs "Chill Out Album", recorded by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp) under an alias and r
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https://youtu.be/7Rs1oG8fjvM
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https://youtu.be/7Rs1oG8fjvM
Aurora Borealis – Aurora Borealis (Part 1 & 3) [FINNLAND Ambients] (1997) Obscure ambient gem very much in the style of KLFs "Chill Out Album", recorded by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp) under an alias and released on their own Kalevala label.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The great telluric pull, the mystery before the impulse
Before the flood, after the inundation, the constellation of Cassiopeia
And the faces of Anubis and Night above the crypt
Eyes locked across the universe of blue and black, across the universe
Before the flood, after the inundation, the constellation of Cassiopeia
And the faces of Anubis and Night above the crypt
Eyes locked across the universe of blue and black, across the universe
On this day in 2023 the Australian people defeated the referendum on Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution and the Voice to Parliament, setting race relations back a generation and widening the space for those howls of downward envy and indignation. Yet another opportunity squandered
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
On this day in 2023 the Australian people defeated the referendum on Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution and the Voice to Parliament, setting race relations back a generation and widening the space for those howls of downward envy and indignation. Yet another opportunity squandered
'At this point, there is a long pause, as the three men who had played at birthday parties in the houses of aunties and slept on top of each other in freezing vans, who had seen each other fuck and wank and vomit and cry, ...
October 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
'At this point, there is a long pause, as the three men who had played at birthday parties in the houses of aunties and slept on top of each other in freezing vans, who had seen each other fuck and wank and vomit and cry, ...
Since the beginning of September, ABC Radio National (Australia) has been asking listeners to nominate their top ten books from the first quarter of the twenty-first century.
September 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Since the beginning of September, ABC Radio National (Australia) has been asking listeners to nominate their top ten books from the first quarter of the twenty-first century.
There are few things I can say about myself with more sincerity or conviction: I am an anti-fascist.
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There are few things I can say about myself with more sincerity or conviction: I am an anti-fascist.
NECROPOLITICS: 'the various ways in which, in our contemporary world, weapons are deployed in the interest of maximally destroying persons and creating "death-worlds" -
August 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
NECROPOLITICS: 'the various ways in which, in our contemporary world, weapons are deployed in the interest of maximally destroying persons and creating "death-worlds" -
Earth- and body-bound spiritual master.
July 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Earth- and body-bound spiritual master.
Sublime spiritual father.
July 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sublime spiritual father.