DJ Leary

Today's top word on Merriam-Webster. Ironically enough, explains succinctly by the word of the day.

Wrote this on New Years Eve while stuck sick at home and watching the ball drop on my computer monitor. I'm not really one for resolutions, they always seem doomed to failure. But maybe the point isn't to change your life. It's just to try.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #newyearseve #nye

A couple days late on this one. Luckily, my
New Year's resolution wasn't to be more punctual.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #newyearseve #future

Over half my net worth is just a binder of Pokemon cards I bought when I was 9

Nothing quite like Halloween heartbreak. Love is an elusive creature, every bit as rare as Bigfoot or Mothman. Some say it doesn't exist, but that don't stop us foolhardy from looking.

#poetry #writing #halloween #cryptid #love

A little love poem for ya. Happy Halloween!

#poetry #writing #halloween #cryptid #love

Walked into a rest stop at 12am to find an 80 year old man clipping his nails by the urinals

Finally got this bad boy back from the repair shop

"Earbuds" is a truly disgusting word. Can't help picturing little fungal sprouts bursting from my inner ear canal.

Most poems I'm commissioned to write are love poems. Then once in a while I'm asked to do something completely different.

Music credit: What's So Amazing About Grace by The Paper Chase

#poetry #writing #ink #shadow #horror

Something spooky for the season. Nothing like resurrecting an old poem just to dirty it up

#writing #poetry #ink #mirror #shadow

Obligatory love poem about punctuation.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #love #punctuation

Nothing says 'love poem' like semicolons

#poetry #writing #typewriter #love #punctuation

Now You Are One of Us

It's Paper Chase season

i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts and given that coconuts kill more people per year than sharks i'm currently more dangerous than a great white

Had a dream last night where I all of a sudden asked myself, "Why don't horses have udders?"

Couple days late on this because I've been sick. Ironic that my illness coincided with this poem. I have a bad habit of burning it at both ends until my body forces me to sit down.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #fire #candles

Now I gotta clean a bunch of wax off my coffee table

The older you get, the more you listen to Jeff. It's inevitable 🤷😮‍💨

A friend gave me the prompt of a hotdog hotdog goes to the beach. Instantly, I thought of Robert Egger's The Lighthouse. Specifically, the final image of Robert Pattinson being devoured by seagulls. Here is the result.

I don't know why I'm like this.

#poetry #parody #horror #seagull #beach

A hotdog hotdog goes to the beach.

High literature here.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #dogs #beach

Shamelessly jumping on the hopecore trend.

Wrote this poem unprompted back in 2019 for a woman I met at the farmer's market. She never got it, but now I think of it as a love poem for whoever's reading it. Guess that's you.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #love #hopecore

A love poem for no one in particular

#poetry #writing #flowers #lovepoetry #hopecore

When I first started street performing, I assumed people would ask for stories. Overwhelmingly, they wanted poems. We're still getting acquainted, but I think Poetry and me are beginning to understand each other.

#poetry #writing #streetperformer #stepdad #fatherhood

Every poem is like a child

#poetry #writing #typewriter #stepdad #fatherhood

I feel like the last book on the shelf

Recently was asked to write a poem about summer. This time of year is very nostalgic for me. Pool parties, thunderstorms. You hear a song and suddenly you're cleaning out the canteen at the summer camp where you work. Anyway, this is about that.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #Summer #nostalgia

Summer makes me nostalgic 🌞

#poetry #writing #typewriter #summer #nostalgia

This poem was originally written for a person I met while busking. Transitional periods are one of my most popular topics. Now, I'm in one myself.

#poetry #writing #typewriter #transitions #time

First post, here's a poem