A heinous ex said, “You don’t live life. You just read all the time.” In hypercapitalism, malls, bars, and various screens are prescriptions for “life” —poetry, especially, offers solace through intentional time, silence, meaning, emotion & image. Life is those intentions.

My greatest accomplishment in life is the fact that I’m our cat’s preferred human

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The only cool ideas I have anymore when it comes to writing is for prose. It’s not fair.

to the people saying the US doesn’t do dissent like this because we don’t have the “moxie” — in Atlanta a LEGAL OBSERVER was just arrested & charged with terrorism. protest in the world’s incarceration capital with a trigger-happy police force & trigger happy judges is different

lost as oceans deep 🌊

In my belting lyrics to the top of my lungs in the car era 💕

Revising a poem I wrote a few years back and I successfully untied the bow ending, but now I have a lot to unpack in therapy 😅

this is one of the best things ever made

A little bedtime snack does wonders for my insomnia.

Today is the 88th day of 2023, and there have already been: -130 mass shootings (1.5/day) -413 children killed by gun violence (nearly 5/day) -969 children shot and injured (11/day) gunviolencearchive.org

I can’t sleep because my mind is unable to name a single poem that is happy 🫠

Was trying to get a cute pic of my cat eating a lil slurp. Got this instead 👄👄

Poems are more fun when they start by a “bet you can’t put ___ in a poem”

People who sleep in socks scare me.

Lil fruit bat loves fresh laundry

I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone

2016 broke my heart. 2024 is breaking my humanity