CW: Imagery includes minor body horror All girls want to do nowadays is nail books to trees. I write poems while the world thunders around me. Read more by @bellarotker.bsky.social in The B'K Volume 16, Issue 1: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

Spiritually speaking, I’m in a Joann’s touching all the fun fabrics while chatting with old ladies

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They need a feed for girls who miss the time it was socially acceptable to wear tweed coats at all times

The insatiable desire to start every essay with that one mitski lyric about the wrath of the devil also being given him by god

I will never die. I mean, I will, but after I die you'll be able to chat with some black mirror version of me built by a teenager on Tumblr who fed my YouTube videos into an algorithm. I hope that AI me will be intolerably supportive.

Forever obsessed with this poem in the Interlochen Review, circa 2004 or so

Let it be pointless. It may ultimately one day serve a purpose, but it doesn't right now and no one will ever care and that's fine. This is how you start writing.

Here's my recurring post about how much I hate the way Submittable has enshittified itself. They had such a great platform, but they keep making it more complicated and less helpful. Submittable costs too much to be this annoying.

“For me, the revision is often when a poem is too controlled... I haven't really disrupted it from the bottom -- and that's when I step in to mess with it and experiment.” -- Allison Adair

So far I haven't gotten a cease and desist from corporate. The social media team monitors us and has reassured them I haven't broken the airlock of the insular literary world yet, but it's coming

So, I got starter-pack FOMO and decided to make one for writing people who know stuff and pass it on through courses, workshops, newsletters etc. It includes all the savants who teach me stuff. I've probably missed people but these were the ones who sprung to my head. go.bsky.app/K7ftxtv

CLOCKED ok 😭

“Art school will be fun,” they said. NO! I’ve cried over glee three times this weekend. Bring back throwing slushees in the faces of people you don’t like