Catherine Weiss

sorry everybody i have been Less Online this month because my house got hit by lightning and burned down

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i hope this is "Challengers but everybody's dead"

I loved Tom Lehrer so much that when I was 13 I wrote a satiric poem (not being a composer) about my classmates and teachers but the school didn’t think it was funny, assumed it was some kind of scary list of targets, and I got sent to boarding school out of state. anyway RIP to a legend

420k Aid Pallets Await Entry Into Gaza as Israel Blames Starvation on Aid Groups Israel and GHF are trying to blame Israel’s slaughter and starvation of aid seekers on humanitarian groups.

As Gaza starves, 420,000 pallets of aid is sitting in warehouses awaiting approval for entry. Meanwhile, Israel is running a propaganda campaign attempting to blame its starvation plan on the very aid groups to whom it’s denying access.

DIAGRAM has been a dream publication for me for a long, long time, so i'm so happy to be able to say i have two poems in this issue!

a small pug mix puppy with eyes that are far apart from each other sitting next to a shoe

tbh it wasn't actually apropos of nothing, this post was apropos of looking at a picture from when Pippin was a puppy and going, wait a minute, he had wide eyes, type B--i need to make a chart or a graph

a rough hand drawn figure of two icons of faces. the circle marked A has big round eyes with a vertical arrow indicating tall. the circle marked B has two digon shaped eyes that are far apart with a horizontal arrow indicating width.

apropos of nothing but when authors describe characters with "wide eyes" i know intellectually they usually mean A but my brain always translates to B

i guess people are talking about if the NYC subway is scary and i'll chime in on this one. sometimes people in the car with you are talking or sleepy or annoying. sometimes people even sing at you! i don’t care for the singing. but the subway is not scary. what it is is not very accessible

Grateful to @catherineweiss.bsky.social‬ for the opportunity to publish her poems—and this GIF of a guy doinking off the propeller of the Titanic.

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This GIF is SO GOOD and when I saw it was accompanying my work I shrieked in delight. Thanks so much for publishing these poems!

finally going to the salon for a haircut that makes me feel less like an old crone but afterwards having to come to terms with that while it's not exactly a ramona flowers haircut, it's not exactly NOT a ramona flowers haircut

a needle felted scene on a round yellow embroidery hoop; a crude fuzzy rendering of a circular UFO hovering above the white house and blasting light blue jet of alien firepower down onto the building, which is in the process of blowing up and is on fire. its the scene from the poster of the 1996 film Independence Day.

independence day (1996)

A embroidery hoop with needle felted wool of a sky shortly after sunset. Dark blue tree line in the foreground and pink and grey clouds over a medium blue sky. There's also a silhouette of power lines. The overall effect is that the art is not particularly good but someone certainly tried her best.

my first attempt at flat needle felting. when im dead, plz put on my gravestone "say what ye will but the bitch had hobbies"

In the movie they'll be terraforming Mars to be the habitat of Earth 65 Million years ago, for some reason. A Musk-esque figure will be eaten by dinosaurs at the end. Welcome to... Jurassic Planet

for me it’s a reminder that i’m naturally impatient but that rushing can produce sloppy results. but possibly the messy quick handwriting is more authentic than the tidy rounded letters i make when i go slow. i’m always jealous of other people’s handwriting, too! especially if it seems consistent

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 Happy April, and Happy National Poetry Month. Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year and share them with you.H...

Happy to have Big Money Porno Mommy make this list!!

my husband was having a nightmare and for whatever reason he started singing an eerie howling melody in his sleep and wouldn't wake up when i shook him and i can tell you right now i did not NOT care for that at 3am the night after seeing Sinners

very pleased to be able to say i'm in this issue with a poem called "late for the meeting and my hair's still wet"

It's that time again. More info at the link in bio.

i just saw a trailer for a movie, like ostensibly a REAL movie released in theaters in 2009, and in the trailer there were three consecutive shots with the boom mic visible in the frame and i feel like im going crazy

-bombing people is really bad
-we must stop the ppl in charge from doing it
-by using a variety of tactics to get them to stop
-including but not limited to making a big stink about the group chat stuff
-while remembering the goal is zero bombs & no state violence

Book cover Big Money Porno Mommy: Poems by Catherine Weiss

THE PHONE SEX POEM i can't picture what kind of dirty talk i would even enjoy receiving. mostly the things i think about are quiet. a musky shirt-collar. prolonged eye contact, a belligerent smile. repressing laughter, sex as a joke i can't stop laughing at. i think about taking something that wants to be taken. i think about leaving a party with my husband. saying goodbye to absolutely no one, including the host. i think about undressing in a hallway. i think about a belt. i think about taking my time with said belt. i think about each notch slipping under the buckle, becoming opened and also undone. good sex is wanted sex, of course. but good sex might not be clean. i want to be unclean without feeling like spoiled fruit. i want to be consumed without disappearing. it's complicated, this dancing. sometimes i want to be convinced. sometimes it's a game. sometimes to be won is winning. sometimes i want to be pushed. to let someone push you is an opportunity to be brave. sometimes i want to be put on a pedestal. sometimes i want to be down on the floor.

Always so good to get to read a new book by a talented friend 😍 read @catherineweiss.bsky.social's collection last night & highly recommend! Lots of poems I could share, but this one is, I think, my fav.

"but good sex might not be clean. i want to be unclean without feeling like spoiled fruit."

ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵

funniest possible day that i got added to my cousins' group chat

look how much you don’t keep bees — fugue

been thinking about this old one
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people compare Severance to LOST but i am worried that it’s actually Prison Break. like S1 has a tight premise but then the guy escapes. so now what. S2 is break back in?! S3 they’re all in a new prison?! it doesn’t take that long to become pointless and frustrating. maybe should have been a movie

i don’t know anything about anything but if i had to guess why young white american men are becoming fascist little monsters in droves it would have to do with finding out that what their lives will probably be like (hard, sad, normal) is far from what they think was promised (being batman)

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The book is here! Pippin and Boulette helping me read a poem from Big Money Porno Mommy. @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

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remembering the time i tweeted a take about poets who humblebrag by calling their own poems “weird” and someone scolded me for being disrespectful to witches and wizards