Oh dear oh no... said absolutely no-one

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I love this poem: yalereview.org/article/chen...

Unfortunate driveby for Beryl Cook

Sad and exhausted from the repellent news cycle. Obviously the solution is to stop reading but it's compulsive as well. Waiting for the revelation which changes everything when it seems we have to process the revelations that make the status quo unsustainable from within the status quo.

a while back, like its subject, and evergreen because of same. www.1handclapping.online/post/ben-mor...

He survived enough episodes of Sharpe to permanently impact my development

This post reminds me that the person i went on a first date to see this movie with is now bald and important in the civil service - depressingly common

Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren “THE BIRDS” (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock 🎬 Universal Pictures 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

'I can tell you what i don't want and it's an invitation to that party..the one no one invited me to. Wouldn't go if you paid me. I actually feel sorry for anyone who has been invited. Losers'

Alas for all his faults, Djokovic must overtake Margaret 'Gays Aren't People' Court and dislodge her from her throne of rotten apples

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

It is profoundly sad that a white man's concealed carry guns rights is what is getting certain people to finally understand that the US government does not give a shit about laws or rights or lives. This is not a criticism of the victim. This is a criticism of the US's sympathies & priorities.

They had no standards tbh. Eg de Beauvoir and Sartre were obsessed with John Wayne and went to see all his movies. She called him 'that big American'

Post that could have been written word for word 8 years ago too.

Charles Simic 🖤

Best film of that year and criminally overlooked. Love this review

For killing read murder For heartbreaking tragedy read state sponsored crime For the whole second sentence read America is being taken over by a militarised dictatorship I'm not american but if i were i'd call this statement 'weak-ass'

Every time i look at photos of his British mother i think, 'so that's where he got the hair.' Not since Norman Bates has America been so fascinated by an Oedipal horror show

Utterly accurate. After the castle no one cares. King kong does this structure better

The most horrendous thing to me about the short story 'i have no mouth and i must scream' is that i know about it because i asked chatgpt 'what is the scariest short horror story ever written' and that story was its answer

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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the job of a politician is to read polls and then announce whatever's popular,

BBC News - Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Really interesting.

He 'laid down a marker' or 'took the fight to his enemies' or 'upended norms' or 'set out a provocative new vision' We thought we were so grown up. But we think power must be cruel and we like it to tell us its strong. A lot. And to be male

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

In the Ian McEwan version of this story, their son would be named something American and symbolic, say Brooklyn.

Nonsense. He doesn't have 'absolute resolve' to take Greenland. He sounded like a rambling dementia patient. At one point he talked about a paperclip for 3 full minutes. It's embarrassing watching the media comply with his whimsical narratives that shift every week. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My bf when i cook:

Thanks KLM, maybe not right now

A new map of disposability. Poor people and immigrants are at the front, but everyone is on the map.

I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.

cool name why’s it called that

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

Parade through valletta, malta. 6 years ago today, just prepandemic

I was reminded today I'm meant to promote my poetry sequence here. It's just been published in a 2nd edition by Poetry Salzburg: www.poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm It's about the vengeful rage of Medea whom no one listens to, and about political violence. So more relevant than when I wrote it, alas.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s the first section of “Morning Prayer” by Hettie Jones~

Malta says choose

Rescind! Then any future literature laureate can have the prize taken back if they write a crap book

Nothing says pathetic fragile crook quite like orange felon accepting someone else’s Nobel Peace Prize and nothing says disgraceful fraud quite like Machado gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to a murderous tyrant like him for power. I hope the Nobel Committee strips it from her.

America's heritage, like my own country's, is also one of imperialism, racism and slavery and i'd say those aspects are to the fore just at the moment alas

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Virginia Woolf upon learning that TS Eliot believed in God 🤯

This week on Substack, I finally wrote about how films and the act of going to the cinema gives me room to grieve. open.substack.com/pub/theartyp... #amwriting #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #selfcare #suicideloss

Dreamed I was lost in the Barbican on the way to meet Werner Herzog & my thumbs & tongue were made of wax & kept melting & when I finally found him he took one look at me, eyes filled with pity, disgust & a deep intimacy with the void & said “Rose, the furnace of your vanity is destroying you”

Set a trap to catch a mouse and can never re enter my flat in case it's worked

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Poems for Blok" “Your name is a—bird in my hand, a piece of ice on my tongue. The lips’ quick opening. Your name—four letters. A ball caught in flight, a silver bell in my mouth.” [Tr. I. Kaminsky & J. Valentine] #poetry #writer

i was kind of hoping australia didn't go far right. running out of places to move as and when some part of my life is declared illegal in my own country.