Martha

Meow! Hiss! Yes!

Issue 125 — RogueAgent Welcome to Rogue Agent, a journal for poetry and art that inhabits the body.

A bedroom, a black hole, and a body… RA issue 125 is here! Including poetry by @musefictions.bsky.social @maheen-majid.bsky.social @marthamcc.bsky.social and @umberstanding.bsky.social // rogueagentjournal.com/issue125

Let’s ask the Wall Street Journal about socialism.

YouTube video by ukandanz uKanDanZ - WAR PIGS (Official Music Video)

Have been losing my mind all morning at this absolutely bowel-crushing Franco-Ethiopian jazz-funk cover of War Pigs. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVY...

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”

A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

lavos, the main antagonist from the 1995 rpg chrono trigger

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky

Literature is dead and no one reads anymore! I would still encourage you to make terrible life choices and become a writer anyway! Fuck a job, write poetry!

Camberville, turn out to this one.

Photo of the display window at the Grolier poetry bookstore with books by Alex Baskin and me, separated by a cactus.

Trash Witch in the Grolier’s window!

I've never been mountain climbing and have no intention of going anywhere near K2, but I fully expect it to find me and kill me anyway.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse This week’s poem: Martha McCollough's "always the "schaden "never the "freude"

#poetry

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

oil painting in landscape orientation, grey rabbit sitting in brown ground under a tree with two carrots and a lettuce leaf, with red brick wall in background

🥕🐇
Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910)
The Rabbit’s Meal (Le Repas du lapin), 1908
Oil on canvas, 19 11/16 × 24 1/8 in. (50 × 61.3 cm)
Barnes Foundation BF578 collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5458...

Painted in 1914, 'The Sheaves,' is filled with the stillness and mystery that make Felix Vallotton's paintings so absorbing; a symbolic picture, his landscapes rarely include people but in this work, a presence is suggested by the (perhaps abandoned) tools and basket.

Shopping.

I saved some money not shipping at target but I really started saving when I quit Amazon. I hadn’t realized the number of impulse purchases I was making.

i mean, i don't know that it gets any clearer than this without the pope saying "you ain't shit. your crew ain't shit. and all of y'all are burning in hell."

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Or all Europeans—another option.

NOTHING BUT GRUEL AND POLITICS

GRUEL AND POLITICS

I put a roadkill-eating haunted pork muppet who hates life-saving medicine in charge of a nation's health. AITA?

Shutting down an unresponsive computer by holding down the power button always feels like pressing a pillow down on a person's face while saying "go to sleep"

Black, speckled and multicolored chickens escaped from the neighboring farm to enjoy an afternoon out along the rail trail. I think the one at the top of the photo is the rooster. A very bad boy.

Some chickens escaped from the neighboring farm to enjoy an afternoon out along the rail trail.

Black and white chickens escaped from the neighboring farm to enjoy an afternoon out along the rail trail.

View of the Holyoke range behind some very large dirt heaps along the rail trail, Hadley , Massachusetts

On the rail trail

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.
—Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell