Calm Under Fire for Ted We die in different directions At the same pace we die As the virtue of structure and grace As a challenge to distance We die, you and I, with our hands Outreached, by chance, one night each Toward the other. In a corner In a cellar. With jars and webs, A continent apart, we die As submission to an unfinished heart.
Jim Carroll
Dankazura: an 800-year-old cherry blossom path in Kamakura 🌸 Japan 🇯🇵
Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Sakura Season in Japan 🇯🇵
Wagtail beneath full moon with stylised trees against night sky in background. Painting.
Goodnight.
Moonlit wagtail, Tom Wood, 2018.
I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.
This is superb. Beautifully written; runs its fingers through your heartstrings and knocks the breath out of you in places. Right up there with T.C Boyle's best.
user abbiistabbii: The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing. Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour. It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.
I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words!
That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go
It promotes a growth mindset!!
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the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco
Slim poetry collection emergency dream with bright green block for title with pairing of pine tree above it, propped upright in front of sea and beach
Published today! #EmergencyDream out now. Catch it at your local bookshop or there are unlimited signed copies through @samreadbookseller.bsky.social or I believe there are a few @lighthousebks.bsky.social.
Really grateful to chat about Zappa with the @jeffreystarr.com podcast, including whether his satire was successful and his political legacy. And it's a rare video podcast appearance from me! Check it out! "Frank Zappa's America" is out now via @lsupress.bsky.social!
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“And if you need a real shot in the arm to get you laughing and smiling again, just remember that I could trip down a flight of stairs in my own ultra-plush luxury high-rise this very night and shatter my skull right there. Isn’t that great?”
John Carpenter's The Thing is a Christmas movie. So there.
Nice analysis of AI’s current writing style.
It most certainly is. Sorry British public, but you're bang out of order.
Folks, Ragaire is open for submissions for Issue 5! Send us your best poems, short stories and essays! We can't wait to read them!
Oops! This is what happens when your little niece grabs your phone without you noticing. I haven't had a fit or anything.
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one of the biggest mistakes of the past 20 years is the idea that everyone has something interesting to say and should get to say it
Good morning and on this 'Blue Friday.'
If you are able, please do buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops or: Bookshop.org.uk
They pay all their taxes and don't waste money on phallic space dreams.
@thebookseller.com
Repeat: I will not allow Liverpool FC to ruin my mood on my holiday.
You know what? It might be time to put the Beatles away, at least if this article and what's coming down the pipe is anything to go by. There are other bands. There are other artists. Stop with the nostalgia.
Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.
The diarrhoea is real.
What a day. Two poems in the latest splendid edition of Causeway, and then three poems in the equally splendid Autumn issue of Southlight that I was completely unaware had been accepted. I might put them up in due course. Grab copies, they're great publications.
#poetrymagazines
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
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I'll tell you something. You can tell a lot about a person if they're left alone with a sheet of bubble wrap.
