Ben Blench

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YouTube video by Aaron and Claire This GOCHUJANG Tofu Rice Bowl Will Change Your LIFE!

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Submissions We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…

And YES! Another submission opportunity!
We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest.
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We have opened for our very first poetry prize!
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MF DOOM, by Tom Caruana from the album Inner Space

Now playing: Can x MF DOOM

Incredible track from the Tom Caruana Inner Space remix album.

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Colour is on brand!

A photo of a single swan chilling out the back of the RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam

If you're really curious about the poem you can scroll back through my posts here and find it.

Here's a photo of a swan to inspire you.

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On #NationalPoetryDay I’m super happy to share that my poem “Wasting time on the internet again” has been included in the latest anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social :)

Wanna read the poem? Go buy the book! It's called “100 poems for the 21st century”. and you can get it on Amazon.

EXCITING NEWS!
Our newest print anthology - 100 poems for the 21st Century - will be available from Amazon within the next 72 hours!

Thank you so much to our amazing poets who have really brought this book to life😍💎😍

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

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Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

It’s a truly astonishing culinary achievement. I tried making my own aubergine pickle once — not even remotely close to Patak’s.

Gibbons: The Silver Swan

“Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes;
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”

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Don't miss this, poets – the new wave, AND your chance to appear in a future one. I have two years' worth of spaces to fill. Help a publisher out? 🥹😉

💛 Two yellow floofs 💛

YouTube video by 🎶Psy-Op Music🎶 Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary

Now playing: Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix - Wind Cries.

A straight up banger from the Tom Caruana Black Gold remix album.

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Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals."

"...what the computer people don't realize..."

#dancinganimals #vonnegut #fart

More power to you, I noped out a while back.

Photo of Ben Blench sitting on a swan bench wearing a Powell Peralta Vato Rat baseball cap and a black shirt.

Bio for poet Ben Blench: Ben Blench writes poems, hymns, and incantations about life and love. He has been published by Broken Sleep, Full House, Lamb, Rough Diamond, and Visual Verse. He lives in Amsterdam and mostly just wants to go back to bed.

Text of a poem by Ben Blench, entitled "Recycling" Into the bright, wet streets To meet a friend Take a laptop for repair Light from the sun blessing Lampposts, 5G masts Tram rails, power lines Bus shelters, drain covers Cordoned-off roadworks Wardens in hi-vis suits waving Me through the junction Blue jays in a cherry tree Coming into blossom.

Obviously fuck what Twitter has become but thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for doing the TopTweetTuesday thing on Bluesky.

Here’s one of mine.

#writing #poetrycommunity #writers #poet #poetic #poetrylovers #writingcommunity

Mother Sky

Now playing: Can - Mother Sky

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Incredible track! One for the big speakers.

White Belly Rat Lee "Scratch" Perry · The Best of Lee "Scratch" Perry · Song · 2016

Now playing: Lee “Scratch” Perry - White Belly Rat 🐀

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Text of a poem by Ben Blench, entitled "Seamless omni-channel experience" That was an interesting meeting You lie over lunch in the communal kitchen Some fuck has microwaved a fish curry Or something Stunk the whole place out You chew on slide after slide Of neat bullets KPIs Initiatives Learnings A drone carefully Reads each line aloud Customer delight.

I regret to inform you that I am back in an office, writing corporate hate poems again.

Dude

Amazing show. Have you seen The Midnight Gospel?

Expert In A Dying Field The Beths · Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) · Song · 2023

Now playing: The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

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Micro-targeting at its finest

Milk Man

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One of the realest to ever do it

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go - with intro

He has gone 😭

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Noooooooooooo

I read a lot of Maigret in French, decades ago. Still enchanted by the sensory appeal of a cold “pression” and a simple baguette au fromage. Also lots of body parts — lips, faces, hands etc — “se crispant”.