tangled mass in the vast zabajaba

this may still get buried even tho i'm using code words but as mainstream social media continues to disintegrate, this is your reminder that the best way to stay updated on my practice is by navigating to my full name dot sub stack dot com and hitting that sweet subscribe button

@alexL_E_I proudly have only ever taken an acela when it was the only train they could move me onto during an extensive delay

love all my northeastern train riders, but also if you regularly take the Acela over the NE Regional you are bourgeois and counter-revolutionary

For sale dead horse never beat

Blurb writing is an art. And @gr8earlofhell is a brilliant artist! Discover the forthcoming poetry chapbook that's, “A vivid celebration of queerness and a mosh pit of self-discovery.” stanchionzine.com/product-page/p…

kyle cooke is such a classic example of a man who promises you everything and gives you nothing

if an author has so little respect for their own writing that they’d wrap it in slop, why would i buy it

this challenge is still happening!

@ae_thepoet ugh tysm <3

@gr8earlofhell This eatssss

i've been sitting on this essay for a while. it's long, but worth a read, imo. (please share if you see this, bc the algo is gonna nerf this link) natraum.substack.com/p/you-cant-hav…

hire me so i can buy pokopia challenge

the thing is, people you meet on this website actually can become your friends & your readers & your supporters if you engage with them in good faith & say interesting stuff. but if you spend all day nakedly networking & self-promoting, ofc nobody will actually buy your book lol

@magnoliasskye $30 is more than probably 80% of mags that have paid me have ever paid lmfao

@gr8earlofhell they were also turning their nose up at mags that pay, say, "only" $30, but man, give that to 30 contributors and that's $1k already!!! like omg

if only the wealthy were allowed to publish literature, we would all be in big trouble, and that's all i'll say about that

Pears are soft and refined. They don’t have manic supercharged flavors that pop the senses. Pears resist commercialization via soft drinks and candies through their complex regality.

the guitar in show pony >>>>>>>>>>>>>

u, the proletariat, gathering around me: wow, that joint’s so big. it looks expensive me, a capitalist lit mag owner: yes it was. i got it through the exploitation of writers ! ha ha ha. now get out of here

@alexL_E_I don't do that i was gonna come by later

a great part of working in a 100 year old building is that i can always go to the basement and dust off the “no Irish” sign if need be

Hate to break it to you but the "poets" and "writers" you know online are nonbinary. They're bisexual

@alexL_E_I one of my mutuals with them is the former bernie press sec who made all those comments about "weird" asian ingredients a while back

“current affairs” but the affairs are just twitter beefing with free volunteer-run online lit mags

tag yourself, i'm the $5 nat pays every single print contributor per contribution at enormous personal expense because they're afraid to be screamed at by someone who doesn't understand how litmags work

@jcrawfordwrote i screamed

Wonder what curtis yarvin thinks of all this