He/Him, poet, father. Most works are self published, are pay what you want. Full-length 'Wasp, gasp.' (2023, Incunabula)
columbus, ohio
Joined June 2011
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I have all the words that have gone missing to say that I am thankful for being in the August 2021 run of Poem-A-Day at poets.org as guest edited by Kazim Ali
poets.org/poem/soonisms
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an absolute stunner by David Dodd Lee
ALT AN EXPLANATION How can I say I live where you live. I’m brought down from the sky. I’m intimate with the air that sweeps over the other terrestrial faces. We’re all eating the same chance to be forgotten, midges we’ll never swat. I float down to you where the oxygen streams, we get in the bed, we’re animals behaving . . . I don’t know how long the other life took. The tadpole, everyone’s child, loses its tail and the head bulges out of the water and the eyes say I’m not afraid to die. I want to go home.
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I apologize for the antisemitism of resharing this video where an Israeli makes it clear she wants to kill every gazan if necessary and to steal their land as well as the land of neighboring Arab countries. Again, I’m very sorry for spreading the blood libel of an Israelis own words.
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Malcolm Gladwell is a fucking fraud and has made a career and millions just spewing bullshit that falls apart if you have a working brain or decide to lightly fact-check him. A phenomenally stupid man and grifter.
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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I still can’t understand why they didn’t begin working on solutions after the issues with Game 3. Agree that this would be completely embarrassing if a league championship is decided during the middle of the afternoon.
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The middle class is an imperial construction, propped up by exploited global south labor to sell the working class cheap goods at artificially low cost. It’s literally an anti-communist illusion: the lie of financial security and comfort that prevents working class solidarity.
