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Mistakes were made and everyone has told me they will be sending me things back. Therefore, my mail halts until correspondence has been sent 🫡 LOL!!!

Update: LMAO!!!! Well worth the stamp. He doesn't have Bluesky so he won't see this coming. Use the USPS and use analog ragebait. 🙂‍↕️💌📫✨️

Jumping my bestie for all (mail carriers) to see... he jumped me bc he was like "where is my weekly postcard??? 🤨🤨🤨"

We Don't Talk Anymore (listen, I love this series and all... but what do you mean this song is TEN years old 😭😭😭💀) [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

the pipeline from accepting womanhood to becoming obsessed with writing about religious imagery, psychoanalysis, poetry, and the horrors of love—is an uninterrupted, 222mph floored gas pedal on a straight line into a overgrown brick wall of vines. u kno?

How To Write A Postcard 💌📫 [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

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"we understand that it is a privilege to sit in the muck with someone." Took a week off, read my recent essay here 😌 [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

All this tea and not enough brain space 😂

Yo, the more I learn about today's Iranian 🇮🇷 poet, the more I am astounded. This woman was incredible Simin (Khalili) Behbahani, aka "The Lioness of Iran," was a fighter for the Iranian people, especially women, and wielded her #poetry as a weapon against oppression (poem at the end) #Iran

Saw someone griping about the fall of science fiction as a viable category of fiction and blaming "wokeness," and also, me specifically, for it. In the real world, in 2025, science fiction sales were up 22%. I published two novels last year. YOU'RE WELCOME. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Playing word games in my mom's facility currently. The staff has bombarded us for the word game. We popular 😌😎 it reminded me of this again.

These are my favorite 4 essays of are this year, along with one more after this ✨️ I really enjoy being able to dance between personal essays and more polished prose (than say Tumblr).

I hope they are still loud and cause problems at someone's establishment. 😌 Read my rainy day essay. [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

This

You are easy to love despite your disbelief that this is so;

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Two penguins taking a walk on the beach

Don't talk to me and don't talk to Little Mo about it... [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

.... I see.

I'm literally nose deep into learning more about the KitKat nonsense... the estimated amount, the weight... This needs to be fixed by my next cycle and I am not joking...

I knew this kind of love. Nana and Aunt Connie knew all the upcoming release dates of Nancy Drew books. And made sure I got them on the days they came out.

Elliott the crash out Stabler LORD 😂

I will take "all of the above" please 📚💙

A NICE DECISION!!!!! A GOOD FALL. A HAPPY ACCIDENT 😂🤣

no and fuck you for asking

poetry prompt of the week: what's your favorite movie? is it a particular scene? is it a part of the soundtrack? color composition? something big? something small? using your own words, recreate it as the feeling it stirs within you. reflect on what it is about what you chose means to you & why. 🎞️

Put me back, NEOW. 😌 bless [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

My Aries Moon keeps me young lol.

Quote of the day IMO: "The one who's in love always wins".

New Moon in Aries 😌😌😌

The main 3 kind of cut offs is complete. * When you are taken * When you let it slip * When you chose murder It took me a little while to actually release the trigger and chose murder. This is for my lost boy. RIP. [ substack.com/@thepoetcres... ]

Me watching NCIS: So Joe jumps, and it is Jess's fault?? HE CALLED HIM BOOTS??? THE SISTER IS ENGAGED IN TWO WEEKS???????? THIS SHOOTER GON PISS ME AWFFFFF

This caption made this book bump up my TBR list...

"the world isn't kind" skill issue bc 🗣️🗣️🗣️ i am 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Idk if it’s bc it’s late but I am absolutely losing it over this piñata at a birthday party my kid went to today

Saudade: (n.) a deep emotional state of nostalgic or melancholic longing for an absent someone or something; a pleasure you suffer; an ailment you enjoy #Writers #WednesdayWord

... and I will be using this as fodder to write something later ...

My first attempt at barking about gender 🙂‍↕️ it shall not be my last. [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

poetry prompt of the week: split yourself into three characters. three major facets of yourself. how would each of these parts of yourself react to the same situation?

I have beef with everyone older than me right now. I am 30. I am (new development) flirty. Now where the FAWK is the thriving part?

The theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #StandingInWater. Gone for a bit of an arty one today. Two waders which I think are probably redshanks; bills a bit short for godwits. #birds #photography

I'm Scared Of Bothering People Because They Keep Showing Me I Do Last week's Substack 🫂💙 [ open.substack.com/pub/thepoetc... ]

Whoops LMAO

I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"

Although the wind blows terribly here...

My copy JUST ARRIVED a couple weeks ago. And she reads her audible too 😭😭 I can't wait to finish.

I ate a large clove of raw garlic today (there were reasons) and I gotta say...I can't recommend it. It was a weird enough sensation that I did a bit of a dive on pain receptors in the mouth. Turns out, garlic activates a totally different pain receptor than capsaicin!

77° IN FEBRUARY IS CRAZY WORK!!!!!