"Walking or running along perfect bodies were French bulldogs, Chow Chows, Afghan Hounds, Samoyeds, greyhounds, high-end poodles and terriers attached with silver gem-encrusted leashes to their owners’ supple wrists." New dog-walking fads. First reply.

The brilliant Plamen Arnaudov has resurrected corpse.org A miracle!

"When we examine the genetic coils of our mortal flesh, we see that our fine pedigrees are forgeries; we are all mutts and rescue dogs." Today: an essay from Zen Master Richard Collins on attachment and the mythology of identity. First reply.

"And so the moral of this story is: you need to have a miserable childhood to have an interesting life, and fuck you, Trump, with your immigrant phobias." On a Great American Immigrant. First reply.

"I like a book that carries the dirty fingerprints of the people opening the book to read a line or two, ogle a picture, drip some croissant crumbles on it, and then put it back upside down on the shelf in the wrong alphabetical row.” Meeting a great American poet. First reply.

Announcing my new book, No Dog, a collection of 22 poems, will be available to order April 28th. First reply.

"Eschatology -- the end of humans -- is conceptually and physically available. But ontology is verboten. Stories fascinated me, both the stories told and the stories lived. It is Spring now, so I should care again. This year, I don’t feel it." Human to AI. First reply.

"No trades go on in the soul-market these days. The devils get so many offers they now pay people to keep them. We are drowning in souls. Where they lived, there is boredom relieved only by blood-lust." The over-saturated Soul Market. First reply.

"With the simplicity and humor for which he is known, Borges replied: 'If it isn’t a joke, why not?' David assured him that he wasn’t joking, that he wanted the master’s autograph on his heart." On Borges, my friend David Franks, and filling in the value map. First reply.

"Trump’s ICE is sadly the worst dressed killer corps in history. They have now been ordered to American airports for the purpose of travelers to get used to them, and for killing people with accents." Fascist Fashion. First reply.

"The Trump family is planning a golf course and luxury apartments next to the ripest and stinkiest garbage dump in Transylvania. Finally." On Trumps in Transylvania. First reply.

Speechless in the burning fumes of stupidity launched into the eyes of the world by the No.1 American criminal and his coterie of idiot cannibals... Reading poems from my 2025 book, How To Live Under Fascism. First reply.

"The only things that people readily die for are nationalism and hunger. Both those conditions were present in Romania and in Iran. In the end, people hate bombs even more than hunger." Contemplating Romania and Iran. First reply.

"I saw a duck die on the Gowanus. First there were two, sluggishly trying to reach the canal wall. When I looked again there was only one, head leaning left, then it stopped and died." The Gowanus Canal. First reply.

"Every morning I lie awake trying to separate myself from the dark, like the way I’m trying to separate this book from the material of my life. Who are you, in particular, before you get up?" An excerpt from a novel in progress by a writer worth every word, Mike DeCapite. First reply.

Substack TV: TV is boring. Watching people talk is the most boring. not as interesting as killing alligators or being naked and afraid. Substack will end up selling merch. Smart writing won't matter: the medium is the message. Welcome to adding Substack of visual chewing gum.

"Trump is an ugly man. Inside, he is a cloaca of wormy resentments, putrid hatreds, swarming maggots, flesh-ripping visions of his real and imagined enemies, blood lust and a boundless craving for power. In short, the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch." On "Open" AI. First reply.

"My first big snow was in New York in 1967. I built a snowman with my neighbor and we made snow angels that filled up the minute we got up, and then we had a snowball fight in the middle of the street where no car was to be seen." The Snow door. First reply.

#filmsky As the studios and networks race to abase themselves to fulfill the artless whims of the incontinent incompetent, #independentfilm, live #theater and #underground arts matter more than ever. That is to say, watch the movie @andreicodrescu.bsky.social called "a sharp essay on art!"

"If there was a trace of concern for people, it was dividing them into 'friends' and 'enemies' who, in some instances, Russia for example, were one and the same." Our 007 in Davos. First Reply.

"The machine isn’t just tanks and guns, like it was in the 20th century. It is also the fastest disinformation machine in a history that is falsified the moment it happens. Words and images change sides the second they are uttered." Missing Revolutions. First reply.

Our money

Revisiting the 2016 election: The Dada Show. Check first reply.

Valley of Christmas: a fairytale for children about the perils of screens. First reply.

"I used to be a run-of-the-mill paranoid American who believed quite rightly that power gives the rich license to steal, and that government was a cabal that built roads to keep the cars of the rich out of the mud." Paranoia. First reply.

Au Revoir Raison! New poetry--first reply.

"Our mono-pictoral black & white world gave reluctant way to a serial picture world with hints of color in it. It wasn’t until I left Romania in 1965 that I realized that the world could be multi-imaged and color-explosive, and that people could actually wear unconstrained faces." On Photography.

Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.

"Of meat I have no fear. I understand terrestrial animals. They are most like me. I prefer them cooked, covered in sauce and, I believe, happy to be chewed and swallowed." Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.

"The form of the poem should fit the subject: long fast lines, languorous jerky ones, or slow dark-syllabled half-sentences wrapped around domed Latinate dips and rises. Use the breath-measures that might have been those of your conceivers. One page, due Friday." Exercises for poets. Link below.

"In 1990, I was on a panel in Wyoming. Our hosts presented every panelist with a chunk of the fallen Berlin Wall, rugged chunks of cement with an inch or so of rusted rebar sticking out. Pieces of the Berlin Wall were sought-after souvenirs." The ransacking of the White House. Link below.

Come join myself, @miriamseidel.bsky.social, and other fantastic contributors next Tuesday, October 28th, at the Bowery Poetry Club. Link to more information in the reply!

NYC peeps: Join us for a book party for TESLA'S OPERA, Tuesday 10/28 7-9 pm at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery! I'll be there with contributors @andreicodrescu.bsky.social, Terry O'Reilly, and Mick Rossi! www.eventbrite.com/e/teslas-ope...

We are streaming on Amazon and Apple TV! Julian Semilian’s film “Fish Have No Psychiatrists,” featuring yours truly

"This is where we are -- staring at the future from the stands. Some of us are applauding. Others are booing. But none of us, fans or hecklers, can see, or even imagine, what it might look like." New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.

Soros taught us to speak again email.mg-d1.substack.com/c/eJxkkc-O2y...

This Friday, September 26th, come watch a live reading of Forms of Fire, a powerful multimedia theater experience created by me, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James. RSVP below. tinyurl.com/5352xfrf

"Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke. All the surveillance and snitches can’t change that, but he has to be stopped before he turns the U.S. into a joke." Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.

"If we are good boys and girls and stay close to our phones, take our Xanax and have no desire to leave the city, we can get close to annihilation without anxiety." Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.

Codrescu suggests that readers make up a pseudonym under which to do their reading, “free of the name they carry like a sack of potatoes on their backs and hear called out in derision or displeasure by parents and teachers.” It’s a totally great idea.

This week's post is devoted to my friend Jimmy Nolan, who passed this week. Link in first reply.

SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I. you'll take me if you like it or not andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/shotgun-we...

Shotgun Wedding: Part Three of essay on A.I. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/shotgun-we...

ICYMI: Read a batch of brand new poems by Yours Truly on my Substack. Getting through these times the only way we know how: through poetry. Link in first reply.