merciless troll lord

Bonkers that they let me write a book & draw a lewd little strip of pig nipples on the back of it... & even more wild that Meat Lovers will finally arrive in the world this week!!!!!!! Thanks @AUPBooks, & thanks @FreyaDalySad & @wellhellojoan for endorsing my grossness 🕯️🐷💖

all quiet on the frontal lobe

the opening poem in Charles Simic's fantastic "The World Doesn't End," a book that feels brutally relevant these last few weeks ~ My mother was a braid of black smoke. She bore me swaddled over the burning cities.

i like that the car plays a little jingle when you don't wear a seatbelt to reward your bravery

Remember when life looked like this? (handcam footage of a man running through endless halls and rooms in a nightmarish escherian maze, zero reverse video search results)

buying flour feels so old fashioned. like that’s one of the original goods

Soul is an old thirst but not as first as the body's perhaps, though on bad nights its melancholy eats us out, to a person.

from the first elegy, rainer maria rilke

Brenda Shaughnessy

I’m a man of my worm

Tangential to this, from Ursula Le Guin:

not right now, funk soul brother

“Oak leaves so full of late summer // sun even I thought, “Obscene” and stood stunned / for a moment. My God.” — Gabrielle Calvocoressi . . . This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, by the Academy of American Poets, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Dana Levin

small literary magazines have begun enriching uranium

Writers should not publish for free. They should not publish at all. The only acceptable form of publication for a true writer is posthumous, ideally against their own express wishes

Girlfriends be like “yes ill have the cardamom asparagus earl grey ice cream please!” And then be like “i dont like it”

A hotdog named desire

Jobs for intellectual dilettantes. Dilettante jobs near me. Dilettante salary

I once broke up with a girl who reacted by telling me "it's gonna be so EASY for me to find someone better than you" and I autistically responded "?? ok obviously you should do that"