anytime I’m on the new train I’m like wow. the new train:)

when it hits 60 degrees in central Brooklyn they start blasting Alex G like a tornado siren

i think they should ban tiktok in honor of david foster wallace

sometimes on the subway you see a nail (toe or finger) that makes you want to get up, quit the city entirely. but you have to keep going

right when i am reading outline for the first time and feeling physically ill......thank god

Richard Powers

overheard the met tour guide describe the virgin mary as “the it-girl” of christianity

my mom didn't know le pain quotidien was a chain and referred to it as "that little french place" in my college town

the best part of being a professor is actually all the yelling

if you get the flu shot you can prevent the spread of the flu and also experience spiritual death through violent illness. like ayahuasca

i just saw a bunch of twelve year old girls dressed as janitors do a hip hop routine

happy septology season to all who celebrate

Amiri Baraka:

yay :)

I have three (!) poems in the beautiful new issue of The End Magazine and I’ll be reading them next weekend in Brooklyn POWERHOUSE Arena :

Tonight !!!

submit papayapress.neocities.org/richardsiken and have your work in a beautiful, hand made book Richard Siken

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reallocate your summer ice cream budget NOW - get liquid - so you are not dipping into your 401K come August