Robert Lashley

MbilI - Martinez is a great fight

Very curious to see if these comedians are given a list of topics they’re not allowed to joke about at the festival. Do you think they’ll risk their paychecks to bravely uphold the values of free speech and speaking truth to power that they’re always going on about?

The Great( and at times Stoically Decent) American Misanthrope. Percival Everett deserves his place in literary history because of his understanding that, in life, you have to learn how to take a loss

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You helped me get on my feet so I could do this touring and traveling. You made sure I could eat, have my meds, and get back to health. That's enough of a birthday present for me, and I thank you for it.

I am incredibly grateful for my Cascade and beyond friends who helped me with food money and gigs, which prevented me from going to the state hospital. Rib and hip complications from a bad fall + a college gig whose check went south left me in a horrible predictament food wise today...

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Outside of my poetry life, I have been struggling very much. In April, a colleague and distant cousin who stole from my late aunt showed up to my house with a gun. He got arrested, but the functional left from my "functionally disabled" title. paypal.me/misterlashley

Hmmmm. Chris Rufo was really angry about Claudine Gay's missing citations, but this report doesn't seem to bother him at all. I wonder what the difference could be?

It's been a brutal half a year( elections, two guns pulled on my head, a stroke, and brutal fall down a hill) But I'm getting better and am excited to give you my collected works this fall.

How to Seattle: Arts & Culture You never know when the Welcome Weiner will wave hello.

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Thank you for the kind words. Megan( Re: town hall) I take y'alls esteem seriously. I'm just going to work on being a better writer and human every day, but I'm glad that a coalition of new folks and lit vets still wants me around.

AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?”

I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter

Under con- ditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter Robert Lashley. Text is “The glory, not for you but your whippings, your blood trials by fire with you on top the cards stacked so heavy in your favor."

Let's kick off #PoetryMonth with an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter @robertlashley.bsky.social.

Pyrrhic Victory at the Corner Exhibition Match
(I flip a title of a Jean Toomer poem)

#JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2016 #Poetry #RecordingStudio #SeattleRecordingStudio #Seattle #PoetryMonth2025

YouTube video by Diario AS AOC’s FULL SPEECH: ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rally SHAKES UP ARIZONA

People are angry; town halls overflow to capacity. Many are scared, concerned, and ready (after two months) for a new direction. If you wonder why Bernie and AOC are drawing such massive crowds, you must watch this video. This eighty-three-year-old man and a former waitress are electric.

#AOC2028

My Favorite Auntie Passed Yesterday. The spirits are going to love the hell out of my Aunt Joan.

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So many people are tired of radical chic non profits, poet-influencers who have no business in politics, and the toxic politics they spew, but they wont say anything because the opposition is a Nazi sympathizing father of the woke right, and a performative phony white liberal who supports him.

As someone who has fought against the political social justice groups @adamsmith.house.gov recently made his name decrying, let me be the first to day that his championing Chris Rufo as a counter does nothing but give them a gift.

Rapist drunkard Pete Hegseth and the orange felon are continuing to remove all black excellence from the DOD’s website including the military service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and hero Medal of Honor recipient General Charles C. Rogers.

Racism has always been the point.

And who's he gonna throw it to, boss. It's gonna be a long year.

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

YouTube video by Trending At Some Point Johnny Gill showed OUT in the Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel

Johnny look like he gonna put a whole bunch of extra baller vocal runs on Pagaliacci's Vesti la Giubba. #blacksky

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One of the best things I learned in 20 years of being a writer.

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.

As if I don't have a partner who needs my energy. As if I don't have a network of people I have a shared ethics and beliefs with. I'm supposed to put them aside and work with people who have proven their ethics to be meager( and whose naivete comes off as a grift)

If these people want to come back to basic standards, I won't express malice. Their lives are not my business. The problem is that so much of white American expects the energy I am supposed to have for them to be endless. As if it should take precedence over everything that gives anything to me.

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

I'm not going to revel in people's FAFO. But I'm not going to be the "cultural butler/help" to them that millions upon millions of conservatives and "responsible" liberals want me to be, to go above and beyond existental standards of energy to convince people to not be degenerate.

Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

YouTube video by Yoga With Adriene Yoga For Post Traumatic Stress | 45-Minute Yoga for PTSD

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This has helped me so much this winter. I had got completely sober, but the damage from some unspeakably horrible shit had wrecked my nerves to the point where my body was starting to fail me. This helped my nerves and my heart.

Why writers must learn to handle rejection You’ve just spent months putting your heart and soul into writing a book. You’ve revised it, you’ve paid to have it edited, you’ve revised it again, you’ve missed out on sleep, you’ve skimped on ti…

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Now might be a good time to remind everyone that I was just following orders was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trails