I should be reading but: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYg... Monique's is also great FYI.

Before I forget: have read a few What's Wrong With Poetry Today things lately; I think this one gets closer than most to the actual matter, proposing: the culture, broadly, in the anglophone world, no longer (1) identifies and therefore (2) cultivates "great poets" open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

I wrote a good poem for the first time in 6 months and started reading subs in a somewhat sustainable way. I'm trying to make this into a pithy political post considering where we are at, but I can't truly. The best I got is "Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum" But it's something. Just do something?

Before we start spiraling remember that we tried. Get rest. Drink "medicine". And if you're not the protesting type like yours truly, you still have to say something. Either here, to a coworker, to a family member, to a spouse, to a cashier. This war doesn't have a big lie. It's just here.

Yes.

Recovering from narcissistic abuse and pure fascism is um...a lot. But a goal of mine is to get the TAT for this journal to 3 months tops. I also have grad student level essays I want to write. What I'm saying is look at the world as it is and take care of yourselves. This is not normal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7r... Mood. I'm reading though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YSf... Mood I'm in. New work is coming so I'm juggling lol.

I have started reading lol. 3 a day. Got two days of PTO next week as well.

Slight reading draught on my end. New contrapoints vid and FF14 expansion has helped with not dwelling on USA and a war with China/Europe???? for a bit so I should perk up soon. Hang in there all y'all!

Mother made a youtube video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqk... @contrapoints.bsky.social

And yes I've started reading again lol.

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Ramping the reading process back up. New work coming Saturday. trying to get back to the post-every-other-day model.

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