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author of VELVET (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and LOVE SONG TO THE DEMON-POSSESSED PIGS OF GADARA (University of Iowa Press, 2020)

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Issues A special portfolio highlighting fiction and poetry by Catalan women in translation; short stories from South Africa, Montana, and a factory floor; essays on wildlife restoration and dark family…

"I drive over the bridge where it would be / so easy to drive right off."

William Fargason (@williamfargason.bsky.social ) explores a life's melody shifting into harmony with those of Mitski's music. Check out "Ode to Mitski" and other poems published in Issue 29!

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16.05.2025 18:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I would argue these are also just bad lyrics lol

03.04.2025 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
DAY ONE Been a long while now coming up Thought we were past it, thought we'd patched it up Thought the title had passed hands Thought we'd had enough But the Sun's gonna go ahead and tag right up and we dont understand what we're standing on and we sure come in blind With our timing So I've culled what I can't tame I have taken all that I can take It got bad enough I thought that I would leave ... I wish you could take that right off! All that shit that rips you right up Then you'd know that we been taught all this from Day One ... from Day One Same old town and yer parsing through Signs of live and die for you There's a million ways You're falling thru The cost of your mind And some may say that you lack the stuff and you burn it down and clack your cuffs But you may have to toughen up While unlearning that lie

DAY ONE Been a long while now coming up Thought we were past it, thought we'd patched it up Thought the title had passed hands Thought we'd had enough But the Sun's gonna go ahead and tag right up and we dont understand what we're standing on and we sure come in blind With our timing So I've culled what I can't tame I have taken all that I can take It got bad enough I thought that I would leave ... I wish you could take that right off! All that shit that rips you right up Then you'd know that we been taught all this from Day One ... from Day One Same old town and yer parsing through Signs of live and die for you There's a million ways You're falling thru The cost of your mind And some may say that you lack the stuff and you burn it down and clack your cuffs But you may have to toughen up While unlearning that lie

I'll go find the tap wire I'll go put the pathfinder on waltz Well, can I get a rewind? Just this once, if you don't mind I don't know who I am without ya 'cause I feel a wild one now comin' on I told you to be patient I swore that I was wrong So why can't we both just now get to understand from Day One ... All this was dry land Yes you have just always had your Band But you get sad enough because it's all you seek ... Hop on it'll all be gone! You don't have to take so very long ... and u can't have it for a song And that's why I have rattled on from Day One ... from Day One —Bon Iver, with Dijon and Flock of Dimes

I'll go find the tap wire I'll go put the pathfinder on waltz Well, can I get a rewind? Just this once, if you don't mind I don't know who I am without ya 'cause I feel a wild one now comin' on I told you to be patient I swore that I was wrong So why can't we both just now get to understand from Day One ... All this was dry land Yes you have just always had your Band But you get sad enough because it's all you seek ... Hop on it'll all be gone! You don't have to take so very long ... and u can't have it for a song And that's why I have rattled on from Day One ... from Day One —Bon Iver, with Dijon and Flock of Dimes

This poem by Bon Iver in this week’s New Yorker is, well, very bad.

03.04.2025 18:38 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

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05.01.2025 03:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today's poem is "House Made of Guns"
by William Fargason
from Velvet
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02.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

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