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samsung lost me with wanting to upgrade my phone by labeling it "the best ai assistant ever" — like, "oh, no! how will i ever figure out how to dial a phone number on my own again? all i have are these tiny little fingers!"

"did you know you have a bowl of spaghetti in the fridge?"

"really? it mustve come with fridge when we bought it 3 years ago."

it's the first place they head!

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the hell that girl's parents live? inside a costco?!?

and im always like: YES. BUT GODDAMMIT, HELP YOURSELF, I GUESS! 😂

like they dont buy groceries (or we dont buy groceries for them)

"oh, these are the same ramens that i like!"

guess ima start randomly dropping off bags of oreos to their doorsteps.

our adult children, all with homes & children of their own, continue to take inventory of our food items every visit, nearly always in the form of a question:

is this a whole box of cheerios?

who's eating ho-ho's?

oh, these cookies havent been opened yet?

is this whole milk in the fridge?

i'll have to check them out.

YouTube video by Sun Ra - Topic Nuclear War

good afternoon, fam

sun ra
NUCLEAR WAR

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the man who now owns bell's home in berea has brought us syrup from her maple trees for two (maybe three) years now. he just dropped off a jar this past monday... i guess he considers it a way for Crys to stay connected? idk.

"freedom is free of the need for being free"

george clinton.

i think we could travel time unassisted if we ever discovered and lived this type of freedom.

YouTube video by WORLD Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Full Film | America ReFramed

fannie lou hamer's (and ours, still) america

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im wracking my brain trying to turn free jazz into literary poems so i really find this appealing.

multiple generations have lived off the same propaganda so we havent a clue on how actual "freedom & liberty" are supposed to work.

mostly, american men dream themselves as knights but havent had a "valiant" war to fight since WW2. so our violence is backed up & we lash out at everyone.

multiple generations have lived off the same propaganda so we havent a clue on how actual "freedom & liberty" are supposed to work.

mostly, american men dream themselves as knights but havent had a "valiant" war to fight since WW2. so our violence is backed up & we lash out at everyone.

Picture of John Coltrane in a hotel room I think one leg raised and bent at knee resting on a stool as he holds the neck of his sax in his left hand and looking at a desk possibly writing something, that deep concentration present Quote that reads: “I start in the middle of a sentence and move in both directions at once”

Still can’t share images in BS messaging to posting this bc I saw it and it made me think of @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

People always wanna talk about the Coltrane circle but has anyone considered his spiral? 🌀🌀🌀

but maybe it ties into my desire to live in a matriarchal society. but the cops were all men (the lead pig was the guy who was Negan's right hand man in The Walking Dead - the balding guy with crazy hair and mustache; im not looking up his name).

that shit was weird. i stopped trying to assume any meaning to my dreams a long time ago... they were often just too farcical to make logic of. and this one (or these ones) was just a series of snippets in succession with barely a hint of relevancy to the dreams that came before.

she has already killed pops and my sisters and has a sinister smile on her face.

then i wake up.

he mumbles something and walks past me, headed upstairs where mama and my sisters are (btw, everyone is white in this dream) - more violence is about to happen. im thinking "dad is finna kill them" so i run out to the van & it starts for me. then i return to the house to get mama anem i see that

working on a van. it wont start &, frustrated, he goes into the house where he's greeted by his son (from my pov, so i guess its me? its my first active role in these dreams tho i was also beside the woman who shot the cops which is why i think maybe it was a group), but i ask "van wont start?"

dressed like a punk-rock gestapo and they cut the other pig down.

the scene shifts to a confrontation on the steps of an underground building where a woman or group of women shoots 5 or 6 of the punk-rock cops.

the scene shifts again to a farmhouse (?!) where a michael landon type dude is

but i dont remember anything about it. but 2 people are strung alive upside down from a tree while everyone has a festive time. one's a cop & idk who the other is but i wanna say he's a graffiti artist — and im positive thry both were in the previous dream(s) i cant recall.

but more cops show up -

ok... *sigh*

i was gonna skip this one because it was so discordant... but #dreamjournal #dirtsdream

i dont think thisll be a long one. there was an outdoor festival like woodstock. ive never been to central park but thats where i wanna say it takes place. and there was dreamsruff before this one

ive believed since 2015 that the demographic most likely to lead a physical revolution in america are those most committed to atrocious philosophies because such ideals are the most tangible to them: no artsy-fartsy-pie-in-the-skyisms for them: just... "it's a pirate's life for me" as romanticism.

Rectangular cover of a portrait oriented book of poems featuring a white banner centered in front of a vibrantly multicolored abstract watercolor. The title of the book, Celestial Fire: Songs For A Love That Dares, is centered in bright red letters on the white field. At the bottom of the cover in white letters against the watercolor are the words, "Poems by Dan Vera"

Happy to share the cover of my new book of poems, Celestial Fire: Songs for A Love That Dares, officially out from Beothuk Books in April but appearing at Saints & Sinners in NOLA at the end of the month. Book description below. #poetry #gaypoetry #queerpoetry #lgbtpoetry #latinopoetry #latinxpoetry

Harare Review of Books, Issue 1, 2026 First hello of this already long 2026

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I've written:
2 collections of short stories
1 collection and several chapbooks of poetry
1 novella that has been published in English and in French translation

I usually make money as a content writer but that stream of work has dried up. I'm offering editing services again.

color photo of brown-skinned black woman with large afro wearing a green top and yellow pants stands in an interior corner between a window and a wall with daylight streaming down upon her. she embraces a few books or folders,.holding them against her torso.

a young bell hooks in the late 1970s. photographer unknown.

black and white photo of 3 black men standing side by side behind a podium with a bank of microphones. a sign on the wall partially reads "welcome to gary"

Amiri Baraka, Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, and Rev. Jesse Jackson in Gary, Indiana at the National Black Political Convention (1972)