When the child was a child, it walked with its arms swinging. It wanted the stream to be a river, the river a torrent, and this puddle to be the sea. When the child was a child, it didn't know it was a child, Charlie Brown.

You come visit me, hang over me like the moon, your light a blessing. Original painting on offer at xxyxxy.com #poetry #painting

Age yourself with gaming.

psa: do not say “I animated” something if you did literally nothing but feed it through some ai service. Just say you fed it through ai, so I don’t have to dig around to find out that I want to block you.

rest. the heat takes it all away from you; a dry wind chuckles across the desert. xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

Every so often, I ponder the uncomfortable truth that we are daily confronted with an avalanche of images (which devalues all images), and an inexcusable poverty of stroopwafels (which over-inflates the value of all stroopwafels).

do I despise them so? The men who have hoarded our collective national wealth? I do xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

look out there somewhere else anywhere else everywhere else is better than right here xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

their friendship forged in thievery of childhoods and parental peace #graphiteOnPaper #poetry

Recently moved mastodon instances to sfba.social/@xxyxxy for future reference!

Just a hint of red #aurora down here in the southern california desert.

we had but one job between us, but no one can remember it; and loathe to cause another fuss we hold our tongue as they discuss the next great swindle they'll commit. xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #quintilla

I think I enjoy failing in graphite WAY more than I enjoy failing in paint, and given that very little of my work finds material support among those that like it, I might stick with graphite for the time being. Perhaps look at other mediums again for the coming year.

Well, I guess I have to post this one again... the sole opposition is a rusted machine seized up and refusing any repair #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

Some people might ask, who reads poetry really? Well, judges do!

I want to take a moment to reject the rumor that RFK Jr. had anything to do with the Chicago Tylenol murders in 1982. Trucking in untruths, no matter how much you dislike him, or how much it seems they guy has it out for Tylenol, is unhelpful.

A promise of water in the desert is, at times, all that can be relied on. Original painting available at: xxyxxy.com/items/uoWMd7F0 #painting #poetry #font #tetractys

writing your legacy in suffering and tears in the language of your party platform xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

cloud shadows slow walk across the hillside searching for lost dreams ☁️

Change one letter. Ruin a candy. Peanut Bristle

My fear came back as we ran up the stairs of the parking garage that smelled of urinal cakes. It crawled down my throat to take up residence in my gut, and unlike our neighbors it is not a good tenant. This is a damning age.

Any poets wanna QRP (quote-repost) a poem for this image? #graphiteOnPaper #poetry

nothing much can grow in such a stingy soil so expect some spines xxyxxy.com/items/W3VESY8T #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #zappai

I’m reading a polemic in defense of navel gazing, but it’s really just a fluff piece.

what shame one must feel to see the flames start to grow; to want to cry out FIRE! but remain silent, frightened of your own faction xxyxxy.com/items/W3VESY8T #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tanka

Loaves for Sale

no, you're quite sure you've never been here before; the rub lies therein: how can you find yourself when you are lost? xxyxxy.com/items/UjvLMIP7 #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tripadi

Always enjoy spotting a profile with a bio that reads “Never Giving Up!!” but stopped posting 6 months ago.

Oh! I say! Pardon me! That's it, really. Party membership includes a free pass! xxyxxy.com/items/DXGzfbfG #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

they don't know, never felt, a drought deeply, to wither, and dry, and lapse into dust. #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #tetractys

sat down at the world's edge surprised by the boredom, a single, corrosive note of beauty #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

from whence all this brutal violence? Well, I have a notion, but you're not gonna like it #graphiteOnPaper #poetry #cinquain

Hey! I'm gonna post this reminder every now and then: You can now check my books out from the San Diego County Library (via Inter-Library Loan if you're outside of this system). Hot damn, I love the library! #poetry #library

Current tools of the trade over at xxyxxy.com #graphiteCrayons #neccoWafers

Recently subscribed to @mcsweeneys.net hard copy quarterly and holy smokes the quality is astoundingly good. That hardback cover is embroidered! The interior layout and design is impeccable! Made me a bit teary, tbh…

While you should totally check out Joel's books from the San Diego County Library, if you are in a different county or state, ask your library to have them too. Or buy yourself a copy and horde the poems like some sort of word dragon.

Hey! You can now check my books out from the San Diego County Library: sdcl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/79... sdcl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/79... #library #poetry

I did not know this! JSTOR is a fantastic resource, I used it all the time in college and it's great to have access to it again. www.jstor.org

Me, suggesting gas station pizza dinner, “…let’s do it now. Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.”

Replace “rock” with “block” in song lyrics Block You Like A Hurricane

#Lectart! 😍

suit behind a lectern with pleasing words about an abundance you'll never taste xxyxxy.com #sketch #poetry #tetractys

That was some rapture! I’ve never seen anything like it. Sure hope they have a nice time up there! 👼

now 3am, up for the last hour listening to rain and watching lightning.