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"The forward lean creates an inverted pendulum that converts lateral oscillation into forward progress."

"MFAs are a scam. The only writers I trust are autodidacts who worked in a boot-blacking factory because their fathers were sent to debtors' prison" —@johnattridge.bsky.social

The Inhuman Centipede.

"November Night

Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall"

—Adelaide Crapsey (via @21rosa.bsky.social)

L'Orbrie de Nuit.