just got a buy back at an airport

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

It was good to wake up and not immediately feel panic for once

‘Tim’ — the Replacements’ first album on a major label and last with their original lineup — was released 40 years ago today 💿

I'm giving a talk this weekend in Toronto. If they let me in.

no amount of words can make me care about this dude

it's not a First Amendment violation if you comply in advance

trivia night hurts me

it's gonna be even crazier when spock gets shot

this country really wants there to be a strict definition of political violence - nah, sorry, all the violence in the US is political- maybe politics is the matter of how we coexist - and violence is a deeply ingrained human choice - so this is who we are- can it be changed?

maybe he got shot by a stranger

on a plane no one can hear you whistle

remember when Joseph Beuys hung out for a week with a coyote in a gallery in a kind of big cage in nyc in the 70s? Maybe we should all have to do that. Not that the coyote community would dig it (who could blame them). But maybe that's the way through. Deep coyote time. No talking about it either.

I'm on this arctic plane flying back to nyc from paris -was dealing with my mom's estate. I went through security & figured I'd get hassled for bringing some of her collages on cardboard back. But no, the security couldn't deal with my sneakers. I kept saying it's my hip, I have an artificial hip...

dad, they didn’t break me

Another good idea: fifteen minutes of “pure nonsense” a day. This and the quotes posted yesterday are all from The Posthuman Dada Guide by Andrei Codrescu (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2008).

Only took a year, but this book I put out last year finally got a states-side review: www.poetrynw.org/a-scale-that...

I'm having the watching Paul Blackburn pitch experience

death is more than trump deserves

I contributed a brief remembrance of Alice Notley to the new issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here: www.poetryproject.org/publications...

I'm all set for Belchertown

literalism is already your death

finality -- I hate it -- it's not my way -- if I have a way -- and if I do -- may it never give in to that shit

no you can't do a goose island you sick fuck

that octo-eyeball creature taking over that sheep was pretty gnarly

I want to hear more about the 90 year old hippies protesting instead of napping

The Poetry Foundation invited me to write an essay remembering Alice Notley (1945-2025). I'm grateful for the space to remember her in this way. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

manhole explosion

one thing about wearing a baseball cap that says RAT BASTARD on the front -- it wards off the diehard literalists.

when the government gets the tariff money does it go into a savings account?

it would be cool if Putin kidnapped Trump though -- then everyone would have to decide if they wanted him back -- the ones who might, I mean

My daughters gave me this hat for my birthday.

My daughters gave me this hat for my birthday.

Guided by Voiceovers

we could put the constitution into couplets

led zeppelin songs, at their best, come close to almost being good

Tltles of the poems/poem-like things written since Mom died: Chicken Soda 153, Dip Jar, The Unsaavy, Closeout Heaven, What is the Purpose of a Guinea Hen, The Chronicles of Bushwood, Doing Stuff Sucks, For Crying Out Loud, Move It On Over, When he'd had he would not had he of, & Scarified Pavement

I contributed to DC crime last year by shoplifting at one of the museums. I forgot what I took -- it was small and overpriced -- maybe it was a pen? Anyway, oops. It's just really easy to lift smaller things from museum gift shops.

is there a Malik Sealy challenge?

woke lemmings. i realize dude is the secretary of stupidity, and I have a little fever right now, but jeez. all the jokes just lined up like, uh, woke lemmings! (we swears on the precious)

Ain’t going to be long before it’s illegal to know things.

even union of the snake is too good for the regime

i typed up some new poems the past few days and, well, it might just be time to pack it in

wait, how do you spell optomism?

the main difference between cold brew and iced coffee is the former has a little bit of kitty litter mixed into the grounds

honestly on mondays ambient music is bullshit pls just just just just let us rock out