I stalk the heroin
The bird is in the oven
Starving for my opinions
Feeding on my remembrances
This is not mockery
Of what is meant
As communion
AM d the skunk cabbage and stinging nettles
@curtseubert.bsky.social
Educator and writer by trade, survivor by choice, I read a lot and drink outside the busy train stations of Tokyo and Osaka whenever I can.
I stalk the heroin
The bird is in the oven
Starving for my opinions
Feeding on my remembrances
This is not mockery
Of what is meant
As communion
AM d the skunk cabbage and stinging nettles
Finishing a satisfying essay on architecture by Umberto Eco--drinking alcohol as I do and stabbing the page with my finger and a Yes Yes!--the first paragraph of the next essay, one by Jencks grabs me by the throat with "Architecture, like a woman of easy virtue, is highly suggestible."
25.02.2025 09:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mom is unemployed, recently widowed, living on social security. I call her on dad's birthday -- the first since he passed away -- and she'd just gotten back from seniors' dinner with about 50 others in financial need. Rumor going around it might not last for long with rich-ass Trump in charge.
19.02.2025 21:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh ... Wait... You gave them chocolates? You fiend. You absolute fiend!
14.02.2025 09:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I got zero ... ZERO ... chocolates from my coworkers. You fiend. You absolute fiend!
14.02.2025 09:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Social media: bringing out the worst in social and the worst in media.
09.02.2025 12:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They made you feel important
By giving you something easy to understand
A simple yes or no
Black or white
Boy or girl
And told you those who say
There's a between
Are threatening
The very foundations
Of their society
How beautiful
How strong
How brave you are
How brilliant your fangs gleam
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cacks! monstrous bombs!
28.01.2025 12:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Centipedes be checking
Their brother's and sister's crotches,
Rubbing their chitchinus hands together,
Asking, What you got going on up there?
'Bathroom Security"
$trump: Strumpet.
Captain Cheesy Poof is a strumpet!!
How dare she??
Ants march back worms
On grass that forgets its own name.
Caterpillars steal babies
And swaddle them in butterfly wings.
Bees sip tea from the clouds
While windows laugh and dance in the breeze:
All these tiny souls, lost, deserving.
Thank you Captain Cheesy Poof for tilting the windmills. Please take me as your pet, "Poncho" my hypocorism, fit only to rain yellow water upon your nobility, a shower of gold.
26.01.2025 11:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These people actively resist logical argument, interpreting it as a personal attack or as condescension.
This leaves only nonsense. So, let's baffle them with bullshit.
When you promise to write someone a poem and find it growing and growing in scope so much you're unable to begin.
25.01.2025 00:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I love the confusion you are in. That's where life is.
23.01.2025 11:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh! I didn't see this as a reply to my previous post. Sorry!
Polygamy? No. Monogamy? Barely. ;)
Is this a question? And the wink really, really throws me for a loop.
22.01.2025 23:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Trumps anti trans law defines sex as assigned at conception, so this is just a friendly reminder: All fetuses are female at conception. Thatβs why men have nipples. Congrats, ladies!
From my wonderful niece: Glad to have you on board guys!
21.01.2025 23:22 β π 20 π 11 π¬ 2 π 1It is sad when you have to tell your Japanese spouse that they are right but it doesn't matter because this is Japan and the right way isn't the Japanese way.
22.01.2025 11:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My wife is having trouble with a coworker. He loses his temper easily, shouts, and makes sure everyone knows he is in charge of the department. "He has too much power," she said. "No," I said. "He has no more power than a little piece of poop clinging desperately to your butt." She laughed. I win.
21.01.2025 23:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Um. What did I just watch?
20.01.2025 20:09 β π 25872 π 5618 π¬ 4646 π 1924Hey!
19.01.2025 08:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have gone from gas huffer in the high school parking lot to expsore of the weaknesses in one of Japan's largest educational pipelines. :)
18.01.2025 10:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Watching "Pump Up The Volume" with wine in the age of social media while a parent and a teacher in the system. This is tension .
17.01.2025 12:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes? I have wonderful, love-filled marriages.
16.01.2025 20:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Woke this morning from a nightmare, the plantive "I just wanted your arms around me" thundering across my skull.
15.01.2025 10:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Driving to work on an overcast morning, this song comes on, and my mind goes to my son entering his first year of elementary school, especially the excited and nervous look on his face 22 years ago; I tried to be a father who provided some sunshine and hope.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=etSb...