C. Sandbatch (Best Selling Poet)

@Zmei_Hhsss Again?

I have an irrational yearning for Miami, yet in my heart, I know it's a rotten place to live — unless I rebrand as Ramón again

Week four of no longer being able to tell if anything I write is good.

@BYodeler @john_st_helen Both are in the running for "actual worst place in America"

@john_st_helen @CSandbatch My vote is Alec—it’s just not near much of anything, and everything around it is apex Louisiana twilight zone.

These however depict Alexandria, LA in the current decade and make that one in Virginia look like the Peabody hotel.

@Odd_ysseus @AnaKrivolapova Anna is the most likely of all of us to be inexplicably wealthy & hosting insane Anne Rice style parties in 30 years.

@CSandbatch @AnaKrivolapova Her Cortázar arc.

The zillenian urge to write one of these in earnest

@e_cdalton No those are in Africa & they don't have gold eyes, this is an Egretta caerulea (Little blue heron)

@CSandbatch Damn, you guys have black herons?

It's hard to countenance, when you're totally enveloped in the swamplands and the freshwater marshes, the brackish esuaries that fade into the Gulf, that you are looking at a doomed system. But its done. The book is written. What is right now absolutely teeming with life and green and vitality will, by the end of the century, be gone. There's nothing you can do.

@BulkingtonBooks I think thats when you pull a rabbit out of your hat or guess the right card.

@CSandbatch How do I do a allusion

When I give writing advice out I always feel like I'm pushing spaghetti into a garbage disposal because I don't really know what symbolism is. I did at one time but to be able to write actual poetry instead of criticism I had to forget all of that.

That "doomed" aspect extends to the city itself. No other American city operates under such a certain warrant of death. It's going to be gone. Soon. Everyone knows it, so the type of person who is here...it's a type of person with a certain type of concern, who doesn't have another kind of concern.

@surfbrainwaves Lol we had the same one but mine was a convertible. Is that a 40th anniversary?

@BulkingtonBooks You write the book first then bring it to your ex gf and ask her what it's about, then you copy what she said verbaitim into the preface.

@CSandbatch Sandbatch how do I do a authorial intent

I don't know if this is normal..

This is how every day felt in 2006

@Hillsideviews Those are getting rare now though. I think the 2011 Tacoma is the peak of this centurys auto engineering

And neither hold a candle to 1970 Ford F100. #pawpawstruck

My third collection of poems, Tacoma, will be a series of sonnets written by a divorced 45 year old man who steals his ex wife's dog and takes his 2011 single cab Tacoma on a road trip from Takoma Park to Tacoma Washington. It will drive my follower count to zero.

When you feel compelled to analyze an author rather than a book

Someone was really horny when they named that stapler "Swingline"