Poetry prompt: Autumn equinox 🍂 (And some melancholy inspiration)

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"Incantation of the First Order" by Rita Dove. This poem resonates. 🖤

One of the things I think (hope) historians note about this era is how the public volunteered to build their own surveillance state through smart phones, doorbell cameras, and (coming soon to a face near you!) ugly glasses.

The simplest summary I've seen.

Cider and doughnuts incoming 🍂

Fall equinox hits on Monday, which means that daylight is shorter than me-writing-moody-poems until next March.🖤

G'morning. My brain has Barbra Streisand's "A Piece of Sky" playing on repeat and it's not shutting off. If you're gonna have a song stuck in your head, you could do worse.

One of my favorite lines in music: "The well is full of pennies," from Tom Waits' The Fall of Troy. Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤 youtu.be/CTO_hE0ZOP4?...

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Roughly 70% of the US economy is consumer spending, as measured by GDP. That's a lot of collective power if people ever decide to organize and flex it.

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#ROC #photography

Been following this project for months. It's a unique design in center city and it lives up to the renderings (which seems rare!) #ROC

My vote is for Spirograph. #ROC

🧵on super shady crypto stuff.

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An essential voice of our time.

Hey #ROC folks, any insights?

#ROC #culture

in celebration of autumn being a week away: who are your favorite fall poets, or what are your favorite fall poems? for example, I think of Brigit Pegeen Kelly as a fall poet, but more of a September/early October fall. Like this poem: summery in subject, autumnal in execution:

Arthur Sze named U.S. poet laureate.

There's a major realignment happening in American journalism with the deliberate destruction of 20th century news brands by oligarchs. For better or worse, the future of news will be more about independent journalists who build their own following.

#ROC #FringeFestival 🎪

"What happens to empathy and compassion in a world that no longer gives us time to feel anything at all?" A poignant and timely column from my friend @kisskissdahling.bsky.social katesonnick.substack.com/p/an-elegy-f...

Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤 youtu.be/ZZ0PZRYin2s?...

Timeline cleanse. Got outside, celebrated a lovely human's birthday, and took my kid to his first baseball game. Lil reprieves in life's chaos. Rochester delivered a lovely evening for it.

Feeling this.

Unforgivable.

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🎪 The Rochester Fringe Festival is on! #ROC

Rochester ICE raid disrupted by crowd of opposition #ROC via @rochesterbeacon.bsky.social rochesterbeacon.com/2025/09/09/i...

So much of the mess in the US and around the world comes down to a failure to recognize and comprehend predators, and drive them out of public life. From governments to religious institutions to entertainment and academia. It's more than a dirty birthday card. We're missing the big picture.

RIP Rick Davies of Supertramp. "Watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, fanatical, criminal..." 🎶 youtu.be/nT9WUWTPQrs?...

Compulsive neatness as a form of procrastination: A poem I will write as soon as this drawer is organized.

This right here.

Your regular reminder that Congress could end this today, and could have ended it at any time in the past six months (or the past 10 years, for that matter). That's all I got. Not going to amplify the lunacy.

Love a great cover. And Camper Van Beethoven's rendition of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" is a fav. Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤 youtu.be/wAkcSd5l9Qg?...

Rochester radio icon Brother Wease announces his final show. #ROC #radio www.rochesterfirst.com/news/top-sto...

An important matter, editors.

"District" is doing a lotta work there. #ROC

Aracelis Girmay is one of my favorite contemporary poets. Check it out.

Hear, hear. 🖤

Man, that's a great cast! 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

The 2025 ESL Rochester Fringe Festival, which begins Sept. 9, is expected to draw about 100,000 people to the center city. Attendees will have an opportunity to choose from 1,600 artists from more than a dozen countries. #ROC via @rochesterbeacon.bsky.social rochesterbeacon.com/2025/09/04/r...