Maybe I’ll go out for coffee tonight

The bird tills the soil, The serpent sows, Death, enriched, Praises the harvest. Pluto in the sky! -René Char (tr. W. S. Merwin)

Put the peanut butter, jelly, vienna sausages, and ramen in the lil free library today, because I figure hunger can’t wait.

Troubadour https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20022

I owe ~$1500 (see image) to the hospital for my 10/20/2025 procedures. Donations to Help Hope Live=TAX DEDUCTIBLE. I can't access funds w/out medical receipts! W/ACA premiums skyrocketing, I will be uninsured by 01/01 & need to raise $500 for that ... helphopelive.org/campaign/159...

Got my car back.

Blood sugar was 136. No more meatballs.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

Hope the car’s not in the shop long. I need groceries.

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Had the car towed to a shop. Ate lunch at a Chinese take-out. Walked home and fell asleep for five hours.

Car won’t start.

I want sleep and coffee. Feel like I’m either getting the latter or neither.

Got about $32 worth of groceries to put in the lil free library.

Raquel Forner, Desolation, 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135806

“The Dreams of Māna-Yood-Sushāī”

What if I told you the first Final Girl was a toss-up between Sally Field and Mary Woronov?

Having a cold snap. Might get down to 47°F before sunrise.

SO this lady who lives miles away from me in a different neighborhood filed a complaint w/the city that’s now potentially going to get my little free library & little free pantry shut down unless we can amend code to specifically protect site amenities as such pls sign my petition c.org/DRrMJb6Czq

It would be nice to get a couple more publications before I die.

Every gas pump is out-of-order at the station I usually go to. Down to a quarter tank.

Wouldn’t do any good to scream. It doesn’t cut the tension and just chews up my throat.

~$40 for sunglasses online and they send the wrong kind.

I need to renew my passport that expired in August. Got a rotten feeling I’ll be needing it to vote.

I don’t have a Dem. Senator to primary. And the “progressive“ guy who tried to primary Wasserman Schulz went in for Trump when he lost.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Blood sugar was over 100 this morning. No more Mexican food.

#smallpoemsunday Point There is no space wider than that of grief, there is no universe like that which bleeds. —Pablo Neruda trans. Alastair Reid

Blood sugar is 98 2 hrs. after dinner. Didn’t even have any rice.

Having Mexican for dinner. Here’s hoping my blood sugar doesn’t spike.

Need to get some sleep.

Someone had already taken most of the canned goods by the time I put the ramen in.

Stomach’s growling.

Four hours till breakfast.

Another long night.

Tomorrow I’m buying ramen to fill up the lil free library with.