( me / via )

"It’s relegating art and writing to a hobby only, while simpering incel chimps press buttons and get their rocks off by having the AI make images and stories of whatever mediocre garbage is passing through their minds at any given moment." (via)

"learn to do without"

windshudder · commute-'midst
  ward off rogue twisters
crosswise to our crooned · crisp farrago
  let the droves go by
mechanized music · suits the roll-sidewalk
  leaves lash in the interim
redly radar · a rumble hints
  i speed through scant downtown

"I’ve been a keen poetry reader all my life, but one thing I still don’t quite get is the point of the ‘pamphlet’ (or ‘chapbook’)."

“The sestina strikes me as the poetic equivalent of an instrument for removing Beluga caviar from horses’ hooves – bizarrely impressive, but finally useless." --Craig Raine via via

"Autism began as a psychiatric designation intended more to strip people of their subjecthood than to better understand them." (via @ada-hoffmann.bsky.socvial)