i can now prove that civilization is doomed

for the record, the French are wrong to print their spines like this

i've also published three books of poetry w/ penguin icyi

for the record, the French are wrong to print their spines like this

i watched the end on streamed dot pk, for future reference

i can now prove that civilization is doomed

gonna start carrying around a business card with an empty square on it & saying “verify you are human” as i hold it out to people i meet socially

just watched the new olivia rodrigo video (after sending an email to my students with the heading NEW OLIVIA WHAT DO WE THINK CHAT) & fuck it i'm going to versailles

what dates?

take a moment to be grateful that you’re not this stupid

I’m gonna stay *on* the Île de la Cité next month, a block from Notre Dame. This might be insane. But as T. J. Clark said, “There is pathos in the very wish that Paris amount to one thing.”

this is all in Kierkegaard

take a moment to be grateful that you’re not this stupid

two little poems from Walkman that I wrote in Virginia during the dark pandemic summer of George Floyd, wavering between hope & despair

i got in there too. those two were my first choices, but i ended up going to the state school, cu in boulder, for financial reasons

or, inevitably, someone is an asshole

I didn’t end up going but I was accepted to Hampshire when the alumna interviewing me learned I had read Andre Gide. That was all the information she needed

this is false because no animals can play guitar

i have only now realized that i was missing this preface—i have the revised edition & was looking for something in it when i noticed for the first time that it says "with a new preface by the author" on the back cover. not in my copy! so i pirated it

@annakornbluh.bsky.social thought of you—from T. J. Clark’s preface to the revised edition of The Painting of Modern Life

my friend David Bentley Hart in the NYT, explaining Christians' social & political obligations

Do you know Max Beerbohm’s sublime parody

en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Chris...

I fell in love with Kate Croy in my 20s

I riff on that one in a recent poem