pumpkin spice Toddé

lollllllll I ALMOST did, but then I know my brain and know I'll have forgotten about this by the time I am able to sub to the next one

AND it has a volta

Cycles of the moon or compiled texts from an ex hey Hey HEY Hey hey hey

I wrote a poem

I feel like he's like John Goodman in that he always nails his roles, almost always steals the spotlight when he's on screen, but he's still treated as if he has this "some guy" vibe

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

oh I didn't know that was a bsky admin! this makes much more sense then

seems like the bluesky admins actually listened to that pick me poster saying anti-AI rhetoric sounds too close to hate speech

Congrats to John Bonanni, winner of the 2025 Donald Hall AWP Poetry Prize!!! Honored to have been a finalist for the award and can't wait to buy John's book.

so I would differentiate this idea of "feel" and "intention" because it sounds to me like you're aware of the poem as an entity with its own intentions and your process includes being opening to listening to it--"feel" feels arbitrary, and not something you could articulate well later IMO

I totally understand
how I don't understand

trying to write about line breaks is so funny bc everything I write down is like "Intentioned language with automatic line breaks is a deer with the legs of a basset hound" and, what

It’s great!!!!

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

many hands make lots of work

her teacher is AMAZING

write the poem!

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

👀

lol I google "no maybe no lady"

honestly never knew this was about kombucha

We should all know less about each other

I mean this is what a disney+ subscription is already--a premium service that is now subsidized with commercials. the YouTube thing is extra shitty tho bc they're trying to farm user input with trivia, etc. so arguably worse than commercials IMO

screenshot of a tweet that YouTube is testing a new AI host that interrupts music with trivia and stories. Users will only be able to mute the feature for a limited time.

me: *listening to Fast Car for the thirty third time*

YouTube AI: hey!!! speaking of fast cars. did you know butterflies taste with their feet

oh hey cool you wrote a scene and then you wrote another scene that's the most logical thing to happen after that first scene. and then you did that again. that's neat. love that. but what I am saying is what if the people were all made out of rats.

*from the other room*

toddler: want to catch the body clowns?

wife: I don't know what that means

t: wAnT tO CaTCh tHe BoDY CLowNs??

w: I Don't Know What That Means

t: WANT TO CATCH THE BODY CLOWNS

w: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

t: HERE COME THE BODY CLOWNS

*screams*

"sympathetic titty pain" can't tell if this is a ska band or an unreleased Panic at the Disco track

“hey it’s me” no it is not!! 😤

Picture of IG post, link here with review text in the picture description. The photo is a picture of my chapbook, where a fox in a suit slow dances with a bear in a frilly dress. Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPU9BghkQ6d/?igsh=YXUyanNlMzB6dW1q

someone on IG wrote this glowing review of my chap and I am swooning specifically at “king of enjambment”

also people have completely lost the thread on social media in general but especially in how we are not here to buy things!!!!

I talked with a new author the other day and her publisher told her to use social media to bring in readers and this is not a thing!! All the platform building happens BEFORE the book, it’s not something you can whip up a few weeks before launch. And even if you have the platform it is so much work.