( via / via )

"For this reason, understood by all, he was killed, and for this reason, given the lack of a legal mechanism by which he could have been brought to account for all the lives which he had sucked dry, and made himself fat and happy upon, it can hardly be considered unjustified." (via @katewagner.bsky.social)

" 'CSI: Mississippi' flopped because there’s no dental records and everyone has the same DNA." --@sundaedivine.bsky.social

"I kept wondering what Fassbinder would make of that town."

"cold cemetery
the long sleeves of your old coat
warm my fingertips
even from beyond the grave
you manage to comfort me"

--an'ya

I occupy in alien woods.

( via / via )

You laugh and say.

leafturn & we loiter · dragonhoards lessened
   never as fast as we'd like
this fullness of bad futures · those first setting out
   are left like a burnt out mansion
cherish even the sham · which assures you there is
   something you want that is real
to the change give tribute · of crimson targe
   even as the wind steals body heat

"Nothing radicalizes me against capitalism more than the absolute mediocrity it bolsters while the truly brilliant are suppressed."

"Transmogrification

=

Arising into cat form"

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Why being poor is so expensive.

( me / via )

"I had no idea that persisting in my art form would someday make me this desperate."

" 'The sky is full of lies and deceit'-the 13yo learning that wind chill is making the temp feel like -8." --@thorntonforreal.bsky.social

Calvary.

the wall going up
see less & less of the sun
over it ravens

unceasingly gather light
for the part that is hidden

"A lot of my work is concerned with the transition between life and death. By this, I do not mean anything spiritual, but the man who’s walking up the stairs to the gallows, this absolute dread – I seem to select works that address that death chamber and that particular fear."

( via / me )

"The dead too are free of reparation."

concrete Zhuangzi kingsized
at Texas Street meeting
know which lane has leeway
loot of the crown scoot back

Dog Days' harg held over
a hecatomb beckons
my frayed mask less frisky
at frown of strand mandate

Running.

"The ten styles

(I) The choku tai, the style of 'things as they are.'
(II) Rakki tai, the style for mastering demons.'
(III) The Kamo no Chõmei style: the 'old words in new times.'
(IV) The yugen, the 'style of twilight.'
(V) The yoen, the 'style of ethereal charm.'
(VI) The awareness of things, the mono no aware.
(VII) Sabi: rust; solitude.
(VIII) The ryohõ tai, 'style of the double.'
(IX) Ushin: 'deep feeling.'
(X) Koto shirarubeki yõ, 'this should be, muss es sein."

--Jaques Roubaud via

"Growth is the principle of the capitalist, not the consumer." (via Mefi)

( via / via )

"Nightshadows enlarge · Snow gnarls from the north..."

" 'We can try to climb this mountain,' said Frog. 'That should tell us if we are brave.' " --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

Re: your lab results.

blithe murder on the menu · mood
with the cat pics · with the cutpurse olympics

a month into learning · lewd cancer
no closer to clinching · clytespot map

paltry potholes · pick names for
can render directions · & routes using

fantasies fray · that had me as freeing
contrails railroads · orchids in bondage

cold gale at the mailbox · two bills & a Xmas card

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard."

( me / via )

A taperstry woven from intricate.

three moves are a fire
& three fires before breakfast
what use is it play

the most exotic gambits
if in the end you still lose

The world's first artists.

Every age demands its simpleminded bard.

Limitarianism.

( via / via )

Cortez the Killer.

"psychoanalyst: you are in such a bright mood today

me: healthcare ceo got assassinated" --@mcmansionhell.bsky.social

Work in progress.

dissected flicker
delicate neon fingers
reach from sky to earth

lasting less than a heartbeat
cam'ra-only sprite lightning

Pet a Rat EP.

( via / via )

A few Pritchard spreads.

"the silence of the logarithms"

leafchange belated · redblue flicker
speedbumps bicker · sky burial
   well into getting there
rain no relevance · run listless
   am i anyone's enemy
short shrift · to the overseas autocrat
   not even a sideshow
lanes narrow · nothing new here
   whether playlist or grumble
ache in the pit · of my perfect entitlement

An Outer Space House Where Cosmoc Soldiers Spent Six Months.

"The way lies in dark,
The moon swears and weeps crimson,
Red lilies bloom at my feet."

--@ephemeralecho.bsky.social via

Everything is Fine.

( me / via )

The Street in Oldham.

" 'That kite is junk,' said the robins. 'Throw it away and go home.'

Toad ran back to Frog. 'This kite is junk,' he said. 'I think we should throw it away and go home.'

'Toad,' said Frog, 'we need one more try.' " --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

Winter Mourning.

"turnips on top"

orange cones forever
etched skeleton skyline

diease-spread zealots
zippered bags of bodies

some barbed wire award goes
to the weird red tie stans

Gilead's hoods huddled
hard by the new statue

where the River meets the Sea.

( via / me )

Is the 'alt-' in alt rock the 'alt-' in alt-right?

tea party gets its king
madness & faux royalty
no king like a mad king

all-horse consulship
third grade reading level
never finished Animal Farm

let the clankers do it

sing to me, O Muse

Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. (via @sarahjeong.bsky.social)

All my troubles arise, i now see, from the fact that i'm a donkey not a horse.

"As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate.."

( me / via )

Tree and Leaf.

"I went to go stare into the void to see if it would stare into me but it wouldn’t even make eye contract

Guys I think we broke the void" --@pptsapper.bsky.social

"In a sordid twist of the kind social media has perfected, Weil has also become a mascot for misguided youths seeking to blend a fetishized Catholic ritualism with aestheticized eating disorders..." (via @saintsoftness.bsky.social)

Write a poem in Old-English style alliterative meter about penguins.

"In icy realms, where iron winds wail,
Feathered folk flourish, fearless and bold.
Penguins parade, proud in their plumage,
Waddling warriors, winter’s own kin.

Frosty fjords echo, fish-filled waters,
Diving deep, daring, deft in their quest.
Snow-clad sentinels, steadfast they stand,
Guarding their young, in the gale’s grasp.

Beneath the bright, blazing aurora,
Huddled hosts harken, heartbeats as one.
In the land of ice, enduring and strong,
Penguins prevail, in perpetual night."

--ChatGpt ( via Paul Deane )

Disarm.

( via / via )

Scheherazade.

"LGBTQ+ People are Not Going Back"

King Canute was winning
for a cold foam moment
then the tide barked back

Snow.

"Gaza now has the largest population of child amputees per capita in the world, the UN has reported, as a result of 14 months of Israel’s genocide, which has especially targeted children in relentless bombings and attacks." --Truthout via

On Rustaveli Avenue.

( me / via )

"Just as a bat’s consciousness is organised around echolocation, a poet’s consciousness lies around linguistic and imagistic resonance—seeing how one thing echoes into another, catching the harmonics between seemingly disparate formations, patterns, and experiences."

"star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like 'you don’t understand it was a different time…' " --@frogs4girls.bsky.social

"Human shields, collective punishment, and the use of concentration camps were imported as counterinsurgency techniques from elsewhere in the British Empire and perfected during the three years of the Arab revolt." (via @emotrophywife.bsky.social)

"Promises

Elven promises
Whispered on the wind
Floating like the leaves of two trees
One gold, one silver"

--Rachel Turney via

"I am still a dancer made of song."

( me / via )

"...first published in 2000, it was bittersweet to see the pages and pages of review praise from newspapers and magazines that either no longer exist or no longer review books."

"fatigued citizens
awaiting devastation
revisit the fall"

--@resistancepoet.bsky.social

"And while Trump has promised mass immigrant deportations, the political and financial limitations to such an ambitious plan might make surveillance a tempting fallback for Republicans..."

"Toad looked at the ground. The seeds still did not want to grow. 'What shall I do?' cried Toad. 'These must be the most frightened seeds in the whole world!' Then Toad felt very tired and he fell asleep." --@frogandtoadfbot.bsky.social

The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need.

( me / via )

Waiting for Your Call.

"I literally just learned that Sir Isaac Newton thought the world was going to end in 2060, and I'm like:

BRO. SAME." --@ageofuprising.bsky.social

A third of us tried to save two thirds of us from themselves.

brain rot

bairn ort
barn riot
tin arbor

iron brat
a rib torn
tar robin

in art orb

Woodpeckers.

( via / me )

This flow chart is also canonical.

this is not a new story
nor is what happens next
nights cease to be starry
this is not a new story

may you find monastery
& nest fit to be phoenixed
this is not a new story
nor is what happens next

Pathetic earthlings...who can save you now?

"Why do Renaissance authors have to be so ironic, bro? No, don't look away, we're not changing the subject. Look at me. Answer me. Why the irony? I said look at me! Stop looking at the massive censorship apparatus centralising states built up upon the advent of the printing press. Answer my question." --@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Portrait of Hegel's Wife in Treble.

( me / via )

The Main.

"Constrained Poetry = Encrypted Orations."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

I know the names of the vultures who will pick your flesh clean.

sunrise sparkles · on the sprawling yard display
not night but now · is nativity beautiful
a few red leaves · slung amid the gray
the king is a fink

Winter 1916.

( via / via )

I Grant You Refuge.

"RUINS (Palindrome by Pairs)

By ruins,
trees rest,
in ruby."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Knowing I Live in a Dark Age.

"Toad opened the front door. He looked out into the night." --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

Kazakh police are now investigating the mysterious appearance of the Ukrainian flag on a large LED screen in the capital city, Astana, during a visit by Russia's Orc king Vladimir Putin.

( via / me )

"Anti-Trump voters didn’t stay home because they didn’t care about fascism. They stayed home for the same reason they avoided the news: they just could not handle dealing with this moment anymore."

“Listen, you money-plated bastards. When I shout love, I mean your destruction.”

- Milton Acorn via @jacobwren.bsky.social

Caravanserai.

cancerpath the new Cathars
cold in the vast trolldom
not less for belated
to limn their grim neighbors

no exodus nicks you
like nuking brisk discourse
bare ruined rebuttals
Balkanized horizon

Odin, Havranů Pán (Lord of Ravens).

( via / via)

"This was in the days of alt-lit, in the days when we were full of what the writer Gert Hofmann called ‘book courage’, and people got paid in copies and were glad, and they wouldn’t find out terrible things about each other till later."

"landing swallow—
the ship's chain
dips slightly"

--Michael Dylan Welch via @myhaikupond.bsky.social

Polish Cold War Neon.

"...when the concepts and frameworks which we have previously employed start to become obsolete then we turn to the weird for answers." --Paul Watson via

An Introduction to Split Sequences. (via @evecastle.bsky.social)

( via / via )

How to Incorporate a Town.

"Crazy that the period I work on, modernism, is irreducibly plural and internally incoherent, but every other period is quite monolithic and easy to define" --@johnattridge.bsky.social

Scattered with the air motes.

varying key · kennel ration
share of shoreglimpse · shin bark
lane backed up · antique toy
bright brittle op · abrupt oof
& it's the gears closing · that you gain no distance on

"There are likely more people alive today who believe the Earth is flat than have ever lived in the past." (via @drlauravarnam.bsky.social)

( via / via )

" 'Brain rot' as the word of the year is just a little too on the nose."

pitiful skeet-poet
supposed to find ghost tracks
in the fresh ash fallen

Town without Pity.

"There was still no answer." --@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

The Cooling Tower.

( me / via )

"One writer later dubbed Talunkwan 'the worst environmental horror show in British Columbia'."

I rather think the sort of mind that might have become a philosopher in previous eras nowadays goes into gaming.

Daphne Sheldrick has dedicated her life to raising orphaned elephants.

a comet's cairn, burnished
as the cold print boulders

night of wakeful knockings

anent blows from hosers
or lucid glove glasscrack
glory in void's whoredom

Rockin' Rollin' Eyes.

( via / me )

" This decade-long Trump saga has felt to me like all the worst aspects of a very long plane ride: lobotomized boredom punctuated with turbulence and terror."

hours into the sinking sun, i step outside
   noise comes over the wooden fence
i used to love a bright cold day like this but now
   even for a break not much
still i ought to tear myself from the close-up vigil
   over something i can't stop
despite myself i fall into comfort & lingering habits
   how much longer will they run
& is it any use to talk about those dying

"For example, he notes that Williams composed elaborate poems in Latin – then the most prestigious form of literary expression among learned gentlemen...If Long hadn’t tried to ridicule it, it would have been lost for ever, like all his other writings."

"Is 'embrace the chaos' the new 'living the dream'?" --@schuyler1d.bsky.social

Reporting war crimes in the Passive voice.

( via / via )

"One can only hope the things are so dumb that nobody uses them."

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

-- James Baldwin via @frankamari.bsky.social

"Donny’s been constructing a kakistocracy the likes of which no one has ever seen."

"ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM (Anagrammed Lines)

Mythic Athenian makers
match a marine sky in the
Antikythera Mechanism.

In the sea, I mark my chant.
I chart the main sky; name
a heart’s kinematic hymn.

Antikythera Mechanism:
Animate, rhythmic snake.
Stray ankh. Time machine."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Rolling green sixes.