I've done waaay too much thinking about what a confessional poem is over the last few years and what I've landed on is a confessional poem has to carry the weight of regret.

It's been a rough week. I found out my sweet girl has terminal cancer. She has been my constant companion through years of instability. I'm heartbroken but focusing on feeding her as much cheese as she wants.

Basically the con of being a Borrower (4" tall person with normal intelligence but proportionally smaller strength) is the cats eating you. The pro is when you steal pills you can get seriously fucked up for a long time.

Quarantino's Pizza, GRMI

deconverting from X-ianity:

the flipside of the Granta shenanigans is how difficult it is to get into these upper tier magazines unless you have some sort of professional clout already, if poorly executed, lyrically garbage, MFA-derivative stuff is getting in + the editors' friends, there's really no place for anyone else

My top ten novels? I'd have to say, women

Smooth by Santana ft Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty

Before and after work

My 22 year old sister told me my skinny jeans looked cool AND she liked my side part

I'm such a rewatcher that I've seen In Bruges AT LEAST half a dozen times while blackout drunk, to the point where this was about the only line I could remember

me: why do ppl keep saying this poem is two poems the poem:

It took me almost a year to read this book because I still haven't picked all the broken glass out of my brain. I'm glad it exists. I wish I had a dozen copies to give away. Thanks @jasonkirk.fyi

This was the last poem I wrote for Destroy Your Masters (just under the wire, I'd finished all the other poems months before) and every time I come back to it I like it more and more

I thought yoyo club was gonna be a bunch of dorks (affectionate) teaching each other yoyo tricks but it turns out it's a bunch of dorks (still affectionate) trading yoyos with each other

I'm the only girl at yo-yo club

The Straits Are Not Okay

Columbia SC is a contender but I really gotta go with Indianapolis

I just want you guys to note the dip that happened when covid hit and we did eviction freezes, emergency rental assistance, additional grants for shelters etc

Same faces

Baz Luhrmann adapting the stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge

I have to pass a group of planned parenthood protestors on my way to work and have taken to telling them "poverty kills more babies than abortion does"

IT'S T SHIRT WEATHER

Yellow spider yellow leaf Yellow spider yellow leaf Yellow spider yellow leaf Confirms my deepest held belief

My new pedestrian commute is three miles round trip, literally uphill both ways

Jack and Diane

It was former president Donald Trump

tearing the family recipe group chat apart by using "BBC" to refer to baby bok choi

I'm about to give away my signed "Oprah's Book Club" edition of The Corrections, so I'm posting a photo in the last few hours that it belongs to me

Anyway in happier news I used a sample of an expensive hair product to blow out my hair for an interview and my hair hasn't looked this good in months

Finally have a really solid job prospect, something meaningful that I'd be good at, full time, living wage, staff seems really great, casual attire. And it's second shift. No more theatre work. Only two evenings a week for social contact. Would have to drop out of my D&D group.

The "find me a body" to "suicide countdown" thing happened to me when I was psychotic in 2013 and I very nearly did kill myself. I was literally saved by the one auditory hallucination I've ever had.

Good morning

I'm gonna be honest, I'll be so happy to see the balayage trend gone. This look is achievable with a ten dollar box of Feria from the grocery store. With any luck we'll look back on balayage with the same regrets as circa-2001 Chunky Highlights

Director speech makeup

Scene kid hair is back, we're cooked

While we're on the subject, can we quit it with the half pound patties?

The Threads algo prioritizes rage bait more than any other site

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Broke in a bookstore is the theme of this chapter of my life

Been watching Homeland to kill time while unemployed and season three has the craziest continuity error I've seen in a while

It's a real first would problem but I went in with friends on a pastry order I couldn't really afford and when I picked it up I didn't check it and they left out the item I'd been most excited about