One if by land, two if by sea. Three if by land, five if by sea. Seven if by land, eleven if by sea. Thirteen if by land, seventeen if by sea. Nineteen if by land, twenty-three if by sea. My work here is done.

Clicking through posts by the artists & poets & musicians who[m] I follow on Bluesky is the opposite of doomscrolling. Deepest thanks to each and every one of you.

"fridge piece #4" (2022) 5x3.25-in. collage on magnetic vinyl

untitled; digitally manipulated photo (2020)

fridge piece "House Piano" (2022) 9x6-in. collage on magnetic vinyl

"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life hands you limes, make frozen margaritas." -- Benedict Algernon Fancypants

So proud of my city. So proud. 🫤 www.wfaa.com/article/spor... Ironically, the page is saturated with ads about tickets for FIFA World Cup games in Dallas. WTAF?

"DUST tragicomedy DUST" digital image (2024) #concretepoetry #visuablpoetry #digitalart

Thirty days hath September, August, May and December. All the rest have thirty nine Except for April, which in time The leap year gives up forty one. And now, dear friends, my work is done.

(Read for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/a...

untitled photograph (April 19, 2026)

#ai #glitch

O.G. & A.I.

All rectangles are squares but not all squares are rectangles All fingers are thumbs but not all thumbs are fingers All apples are oranges but not all oranges are apples All 1's are 0's but not all 0's are 1's All 0's are 1's therefore all rectangles are squares My work is done here

untitled photograph (March 24, 2026)

Ferris Wheel (March 24, 2026)

And after "Bandcamp Friday" comes "Kidney Stone Saturday"

Today is another "Bandcamp Friday" so here's a link one of my compositions on my Band Camp account: dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com/track/lament...

"The most effective hiding place for a biscuit is beneath several other biscuits." -- Benedict Algernon Fancypants

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall. But his Winter? Not so great.

#rfk #toiletseat #HHS

Writing poetry is like playing solitaire: I almost never win

"La vaquera" collage on canvas, 24x16-in. (2025)

🤠 Going through a bit of a cowpoke phase... All: mixed media collage, 36x24-in. (2025)

To support the Washington National Opera's decision to disassociate itself from the Kennedy-dɯnɹꓕ Center: givebutter.com/TWcQJE

"Mermaid" Digitally manipulated photograph (2020)

Last night (and this is 100% true) I dreamt a friend and I were developing an autonomous car but it got loose and drove around the neighborhood insulting pedestrians and other drivers. In the dream, my friend and I were frantic but this morning I think it's hilarious. I wish I had that car.

I've never been a big fan of Blackout Poetry. But the sanitized "release" of all this redacted evidence crap has certainly burned an image in my mind that will probably never fade. As if I needed another reason to wish an end to the worthless piece of shit and everyone who supports and protects him.

R.I.P. Kelly McNulty dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com/track/tell-m...

From now on, every time I see someone post about "AI sucks" or "AI slop" or "Fuck AI" I'm going to upload something I created using AI. The "Alt text" will also be generated by AI. Artificial Intelligence isn't going away, people. Deal with it. #1 Merry Christmas

"SchemeWeavers" (2024) 8.25x8.25-in. woven paper

In honor of "Bandcamp Friday" (and since the current #1 C&W hit was generated by A.I.) here's the only country song I ever composed. I promise I wrote all the words and played all the audio tracks. (A friend sang it, not me.) dalemcfarland.bandcamp.com/track/don-t-...

Is it that artificial stuff they *call* vellum? I find that's kinda hard to work with - very stiff when dry but gets wrinkled when wet.

Your game calls to mind my soon-to-be-never-pubished chapbook "Citroque: A Collection Of Pendular Poetry"

you could have cut the tension with a knife if someone had thought to bring a knife hard to believe not one person planned ahead so there it was, a room full of uncut tension

"Drive-In 1978 Prototype" 8x8-in. (2024) paper and woven giclée on canvas

"Drive-In 1978 Quadriptych" 16x16-in. each (2024) paper and woven giclée on canvas

I haven't been watching Ken Burns' documentary "The American Revolution" on PBS. But I'm going to stream it later so, please, nobody tell me how it ends.

[glitch from last December] That you to heart, That your fibout Ther is a ometheult, That you t wiher That you a heart,

"The birth of the Reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.” [Roland Barthes from "Readings in the Theory of Religion" 1968]

I have to admit, one thing I miss about the pandemic is getting a peek into people's homes and seeing what art they hang on their walls - or at least the art they want us to see.

Early Experiments In A.I. There once was a man of supreme Who invented a Limerick Machine But the bloody thing broke Before even one stroke And the quill pen bisected his spleen [Illustration generated by A.I.]

"Notorious" giclée on card stock on canvas, 2024. (21.5 x 21.5-in.)

19 Oct 2025

"blue" (2024) tissue paper on roofing felt, 15.75x12-in.

"red" (2024) tissue paper on roofing felt, 15.75x12-in.

"fridge piece #9" mixed media collage on magnetic vinyl, 6x9-in. (2022)

remnants (Dec 2024)

Sci-ku Sunday: My first clue the house was occupied by androids: There was no bathroom.

Aug. 26, 2025