Howdy. I wrote an essay about driving Route 66, Dead dads, and Pixar for @Hidden_Compass
Take a gander!
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April Fool's is a marketing scheme by Big Comedy to sell more laughter. True clowns are buffoons every day of the year.
I missed National Poetry Day yesterday, but to celebrate, here is a poem I wrote about the power of community for the one and only @bruisermag.
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Referring to Thursday as "Friday Jr." at work until someone sneaks up behind me and shoots me in the head.
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their bullet wounds had stopped itching, nothing bled.
birds tapped their skulls apart like candy shells.
Sink your teeth into two new poems by @JordanRanft ↓
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just got a tiered rejection! they said it was worse than all the other submissions
New poem up in the most recent issue of @BearReview
Here's a fashionably late review of @callousdaoboys new album!
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We've got another unforgettable New Voices poem. This week: "Compartmentalization" & "11 Years Sober" by Jordan Ranft. Both poems explore mental health, recovery, and the tension between hope & terror. His sharp repetition and emotional volatility make it so we can’t look away.
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San Francisco’s Not Dead: FNG at The Independent — In Spite Magazine inspitemagazine.com/in-spite… #hiphop #SanFrancisco #familynotagroup #fnp
Got to write about @familynotagroup and warped perceptions about SF for @inspitemagazine
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
Who would have guessed an exhibition match between a YouTuber and 58-year-old man would end up being an over-promoted letdown?
Instead of taking action to get the boot off my neck, I have decided to create a political identity structured around the fantasy that, one day, I may be the one wearing the boot.
Sober people should be allowed to snort a little ketamine on election night and have it not count as a relapse tbh.
Loudly explaining that status quo imperialism is better than an autocratic cult while furiously eating a sandwich in a cafe. I take too big of a bite and start to choke. No one gets up to help.
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[Me at age thirteen listening to Trent Reznor scream about the violent self-destruction and bottomless despair of heroin addiction] god this is just like going to middle school










