RetroHakked — [Another Random Cut-Up Series Creation]

the war dialers, password crackers, dumpster diving, social engineering,
phreaking, LOD

– still meant something

Scott C. Holstad has authored 75+ books & is happy to report his first book of poetry in years
was just published by Alien Buddha Press in October 2025. Surviving Immortality Again is a
132-page paperback containing 90 poems available through Amazon. He’s also a previous
Fixator Press contributor.

Crucify the Adjectives

Words are empty.
Nothing more than a weighty abstraction
bouldered down through human history.
In essence, nothing more than mere constructions—
sculpted gutturals insanitizing the masses into herd poisoned cliques and countries.
The words are heavy and heady.

One day they will bring forth the end
of the so-called sapient humans

Heath Brougher is the editor in chief of Concrete Mist Press. He is a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award as well as recipient of Taj Mahal Review’s 2018 Poet of the Year Award. His most recent publications are “Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy” (Sandy Press, 2024) and “Change Your Mind” (Alien Buddha Press, 2019).