Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Rent should be discounted for Februaries! And by some different logic, February should be a 3 paycheck month >:)

Coping, by Audre Lorde #poetry "young seeds that have not seen the sun forget and drown easily."

My recent introduction to @cphillipspoet.bsky.social. Just a perfect poem, I think!

Hoop skorts

To take a first bite of a still-skinned apple is a sensory nightmare

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

gonna make both hands fall asleep then high five myself so it’s like im not even a part of it just like real life

Jarrett Moseley.

Doom brain reprieve: If you have two cats, it is important that one have a Food Name and one have a Human Name. Mine for eg: Salami and Valerie. Other pairings I find aspirational: Wesley and Strawberry Hotdog and Ursula Phoebe and Crouton Tofu and Janet I welcome help expanding this list.

Revisiting old poem from first week of COVID lockdown, considering coexistence of isolation, alienation, horror & also a sort of heightened awareness of connection - connectedness of thought, connection to natural world. Includes Octavia Butler quote because she's always the one.

I sometimes use CBT with my therapy clients which is to say i stop all conversation, tauntingly wag my finger and sing Bing Crosby's "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" from start to finish

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Originally published in Penumbra's Art and Literary Journal, Volume 31.

Posted by @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social

Originally published in Issue 3 of Chaotic Merge, which you can read the rest of here: chaoticmergemagazine.com/issue-3-onli...

Published originally here, by @beavermag.bsky.social :) beavermag.org/eliza-fixler/

Originally published in mutiny! Issue 4 which you can read the rest of here: www.calameo.com/books/005639...