Jordan D. River

Here I was wondering how we were going to unseat Markie and here he goes and joins the admin and makes himself a valid target of prosecution once sanity returns. Truly, give them enough rope...

Intention. Half a dozen eggs is 6 eggs, no more or less. Half a dozen guys is a judgement call you make on the way out the door.

Checklist For Cleaning Out My Storage Pods To my dear Nephew and his Mother. Here is the checklist for clearing out my storage pods. Please follow these steps in order to ensure the process goes smoothly. Phase 1: Preparation and Sorting 1. Gather Supplies: Bring heavy-duty trash bags, cardboard boxes, packing tape, and work gloves. Ensure you have a truck with enough capacity to haul everything away in a single trip. 2. Initial Sweep: Snip the locks and open the door fully. Prop it open with a sturdy object. Do not let the door close behind you until you are finished. 3. Categorize: If time and inclination allows, create three piles: Keep, Donate, and Sacrifice. Be decisive. 4. Photographs: If you encounter old photo albums, skim them quickly. If you see a face in the background that looks exactly like yours, do not linger on it. Place the album in the Keep pile immediately. Do not meet its gaze. 5. Auditory Checks: You may hear scratching or scuttling sounds within the unit. This is likely due to settling debris or local wildlife. Do not investigate the source of the sound if it appears to be coming from inside the sealed box. Phase 2: Containment 6. Locked Containers: If you find a locked box for which you have no key, do not attempt to pry it open. Place it in your closet. Do not move it again. 7. Mirrors and Glass: Wrap all mirrors in brown paper before boxing them. If you catch your reflection moving independently of your body, cover the mirror with a black cloth and leave it behind. 8. Timing: Cease all work exactly at twilight. Do not continue cleaning into the night. The lighting changes how the shadows fall, and some shadows may not belong to any object currently in the unit. 9. The Corners: Avoid looking directly into the upper corners of the unit for extended periods. Peripheral vision is sufficient for monitoring these areas. Phase 3: Ritual and Reality 10. The Back Wall: As you clear items, you may notice the back wall is further away than it w…

After 8 years and more money than I care to admit, my nephew is going to clear out two storage pods I left up in Washington, Just small stuff, nothing too big, heavy or disturbing. I left instructions.

Excerpt from Treasure Island: A Rhythmic Voyage, Canto 17 Mutiny on the Hispaniola. The second journey proved less merciful. The mutineers had found their guns by then and lined the ship's rail, firing as we rowed. The Squire cursed with each ball that struck the boat, his face gone pale beneath his sunburned pride. But Smollett rowed with shoulders squared and sure, as if the bullets were but summer rain. I watched a ball punch through the gunwale's wood not six inches from my hand, and felt the surgeon's cold assessment take command: the angle wrong for fatal wounds, the range too great for accuracy—we'd live, most likely. Another volley. Water leapt like fountains. The boat lurched hard. The Squire dropped an oar. I caught it, set it back into his hands, and spoke as if we sat in drawing rooms: "Pull steady, sir. We're nearly to the beach. They're firing high. The panic makes them wild." <!-- Closing (Lines 141-160): Reaching the Fort Landing under fire, scrambling up the beach First sight of the stockade (Flint's old defensive position) The relief of walls, but also the realization: siege begins now End with them raising the Union Jack --> We dragged the boat upon the muddy shore and ran—though "ran" seems generous for men burdened with powder, shot, and biscuit bags— toward the stockade's rough-hewn palisade.

#WIPWednesday A bit of the Doctor's account of the thrilling escape from the mutineers of the Hispaniola. I've about 500 more words to write to complete the whole sequence up to Jim taking the tale back again. #Poetry #TreasureIsland

Trillions spent over decades. Almost as if it was all a grand illusion built to drain money and power upwards and inwards while imposing control down and out.

We’re going to have to dismantle this centurys satanic mills. We could be building high-speed rail and clean water systems—real public infrastructure. Instead, billions are being sunk into data centers that expand surveillance and concentrate profits among a small circle of beneficiaries. #Collapse

In case you missed it, I posted a new story about vending machines from outer space, and why dangerous alien technology isn’t a good substitute for therapy.

Screenshot of poem "Purchase" by J.D. River. #NoveltyAndDistraction #ThoughtAndMemory ## Purchase Skim-silver. The surface shivers, slick. Hours hollow, a hum beneath the thumb. No notch. No nail. No purchase on the plain. Slippage. The clock consumes the cold count. Dust on dust, the day dissolves unspooled. Flint. Fracture in the white wall. Color cracks the case, cold and bright. Root rips rock. Heavy light locks hard. Breath bulks, a boulder in the throat. Smoke threads unspool, vanish in the vent. The groove, the grind, the grit. Iron cools in the mold. Air thickens, holding the shape of the strike.

#Poetry #TimeAndMemory I've been thinking a lot lately about distraction vs novelty and how that leads to well known perceptions of time and memory as different. This is still a #WIP. The iron in the mold, to me, feels now like it comes out of nowhere although it arises from the imagery.

One of the wonderful things about having a wretched memory--for a poet--is that you find yourself repeating yourself, but using different language. So after a while the poems work like a long piece of music. At least, that's what I'm saying today! #poetry

Poem 'The Questionaire' by Wendell Berry

Berry turns the language of bureaucracy into something quietly terrifying by asking questions escalating in horror

The poem is 60 years old but feels like it could have been written yesterday.

By the end there's a feeling you’re not being questioned, you're being measured.

#poetry
#poemoftheday

In a sane world this testimony would bring down empires. Mr. Schwank does the absolute right thing. And he reveals the systematic and deliberate violations of the Constitution. #AbolishDHS #ProsecuteDHS

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Deny the historical pattern all you want, the US is attempting to build a concentration camp system. Private, of course. Out of sight, of course. Machines designed to disappear humans. See how close one is to you. Will the ash drift through your curtains?
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Of organizing principles, chrono seems like it would be most useful in scientific or historical focused collections, less useful in most other works. I think I prefer either narrative or theme based sequences.
If I am compiling a retrospective on a thirty year career, chronological might make sense.

Love to see how people organize collections. I spend almost as much time sequencing a chapbook as I do editing or writing it. It's much like creating a mixtape and there are rules.

The original Stargate is almost 32 years old. In accordance with ancient tradition I am now seeking an ice floe.

Panama Papers.
Paradise Papers.
Trump/Epstein Papers.

Bear with me here, I think there might be something wrong with the global rich and powerful.

Black-and-white graphic of a vintage typewriter seen from above. Torn paper strips sit in the typewriter reading “£1200 RAISED” and “WIN CASH” in bold lettering. Below, the hashtags “#TheBrokenSpineAward” and “#ByPoetsForPoets” are printed. The overall style is gritty, high-contrast, and zine-like.

We know prizes are bullshit! They’re just taste cosplaying as authority. So we stripped away the lie & left the contradiction standing. No prestige. Just cash. We'll pick our favourite poems & won't pretend we're doing anything else!
#TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

Netflix's Decameron is a fantastic reflection on the failure of a social contract and how individuals act in those circumstances. And it has a rocking soundtrack, like specifically designed to pull in GenX. #Doomer #Collapse

A 400-Word History of Capitalism Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but th...

“Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place”
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"The Power of Nightmares" is still incredibly relevant.

Thank you for your kind words! For those who have been waiting I will soon have the Doctor's passages complete (75% now, then an edit) and a skeleton of the first Passage of the 4th movement. Slow going as, despite they decay, I still have to make money and corporate jobs SUCK!

Call for Submissions: Poetry With Spit, Spine, and Something to Say - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year

Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you?
This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant.
This one’s built with spit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

Depends on the diction of the rest of the poem, but you might be reaching with chiaroscuro, although the phrase you conjured does roll off the tongue. The best part of the second is that you are linking the light of genesis with the shadow instead of stating it.

I saw it too. Came here to talk about the shy forest brachy that can sometimes be spotted in deep forests of the northwest.

Fascinating.

It’s time to defund the oligarchy and invest in the American people | Joseph Geevarghese and Rashida Tlaib Trump’s presidency has brought a windfall to billionaires while hurting the poor. In these conditions, democracy cannot survive

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The Myth of System Change. And The Heroes That Actually Make It Happen Systems never change.

“American politics is in need of a large-scale demolition. Republicans and Democrats are constitutionally illegal organisations: they lobby themselves into power, collude with corporations to abuse Americans, and sponsor violence and genocide across the world”
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I want to share a thread of articles with everyone on Bluesky. Repost this thread & share it far & wide. Post it on other platforms. Spread the word!

Elizabeth Halligan is a "Systems theorist & consciousness researcher" per her Medium profile. Yes, these essays are on Medium but they ARE NOT

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In that sense, God *could* create a rock He couldn't lift, He just doesn't want to.