So many theatre kids have manager energy

I remember first seeing this image at an exhibition when I was young & the impression it made on me

How many times have you cut yourself on the silver lining?

I don’t want to be disciplined

Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill.

Joanne Kyger

Be weirder

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you feel so inclined, you can participate by posting small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one I love by Elio Ianni (Jo, “At the contemplative”) & one by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, translated by Vala Thorodds~

Tom Snarsky Jo

Sometimes I think I am in conflict with people when I am in concert

merry xmas from Philip Whalen 🎄

Work as trauma response

You have to piss some people off to remain a person

“Praise then the interruption of out composure” — Robert Duncan

Rationality is a trauma response

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 if you’re so inclined, feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s one by my friend Jo Ianni (Jo), from his startlingly good new chapbook FAT LUCK AND FUZZY SONG (Apt 9 Press)

Robert Lax

Kenneth Koch