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Samuel Day Wharton

@fakeourway.bsky.social

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(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades some books / some music / some wine / some dogs / some politics Sacramento CA

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 19d

Friends, find a few recent poems by me here:

malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2

stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-...

wildroofjournal.com

Also, stay tuned for more coming in the fall & early next year!

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 1d

I have a poem called Fear in the new issue of Blush. You can also listen to an audio version. It's an incredibly stacked issue with new work by luminaries @alinapleskova.bsky.social @sad13.horse and so many more
www.blush-lit.com/journal#/nii...

Image of the front page of the new Blush lit issue, with contributors listed

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 1d

"I could listen to you forever, reliving it, driving / up and down the one-way streets of a bay- // shore town off-season."

Liza Katz Duncan's newest dispatch from Jersey Shore travels with sestina forms and memory's fluidity. Read across the Jersey landscape below!

"During the Drought," "Sestina, Mount Mitchill," "Dragonflies"

LIZA KATZ DUNCAN <br> "My love, think / of the dragonflies, each migratory trip / spanning generations."

buff.ly

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Tolu Oloruntoba @toluini.bsky.social · 21h

The fine folks at carte blanche published my poem, “Broken Windows Theory” in their transformation issue. Sincere thanks to the editors carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-52/olo...

Broken Windows Theory — carte blanche magazine

Poetry by Tolu Oloruntoba From the entropic raft of my body I surmise the heat death of the universe.

carteblanchemagazine.com

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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 23h

My poem, The Physics of Grief, An Abstract”, just published in the recent issue of MockingHeart Review:

mockingheartreview.com/volume-10-is...

#poetry

The Physics of Grief, an Abstract
The speaker is old. The speaker's dog is also old. On any given day, between them, they have three good knees. Each morning, together, they face the problem of the stairs.
The speaker has a penchant for the melancholy; the dog, for cheddar cheese. The speaker proposes a proportional relationship between gravity and grief, although no such formula exists. The speaker has lost.
Is lost. The dog, after a bath and a good brushing, lies in the sun, releasing her summer coat to the month of October. The speaker is struggling to understand the point of it all. The dog, stretched out beneath the fluttering swirl of the swamp maple's falling yellow stars, breathes in, breathes out.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 4h

It's 60 in the house

I will not turn the heat on

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 7h

Every NextDoor post doubles as a horror short-story prompt

* Nextdoor screencap, reads:
Is anyone noticing a funny taste to the tap water, in last couple weeks?

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 18h

I better be 💪

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 19h

One free Nazi salute without consequences: the white privilege card

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 20h

a nazi salute limit was reached, apparently, but it was not zero was it

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 20h

“We lie back to back.” A poem by Jane Kenyon.

The Suitor

We lie back to back. Curtains
lift and fall,
like the chest of someone sleeping.
Wind moves the leaves of the box elder;
they show their light undersides,
turning all at once
like a school of fish.
Suddenly I understand that I am happy.
For months this feeling
has been coming closer, stopping
for short visits, like a timid suitor.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

Y’all won’t use plastic straws but you’re using GROK to plan your workouts??????????? Go dive off a street curb into a pool of trash bag juice.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20h

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20h

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20h

Can confirm

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 21h

This is so good!

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 21h

Great poem!

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 21h

Love these!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 21h

Really loved all three of these, but especially Unseen Footage Of Secret Lingering!

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 23h

Haven't read that one yet, but it's on my list!

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

& he is by all accounts a horrible person, too.

Humph don't know why I'm so angry about Jared Leto right now, but he pisses me off for some reason.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I could tell from the first seconds of the trailer that it was gonna be awful. & what star power are they referring to anyway? Has he starred in anything remotely successful? Morbius? That was a huge crap fire... He was by far my least favorite Joker in a horrible Batman movie...

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

Umm has he been good in anything? He was the worst part of My So Called Life & hasn't gotten any better.

www.denofgeek.com/movies/jared...

Jared Leto's Star Power Questioned After Tron: Ares Flops

Hollywood insiders are reportedly wondering if the Morbius star can still carry a franchise movie.

www.denofgeek.com

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o.x.garnet @oxgarnet.bsky.social · 1d

find me @the-engine-idling.bsky.social issue 7: the urge 🥀 and check out some neat poems and art!

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 1d

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨

💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP

Appetite! Impulse! Desire!

🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

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Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social · 1d

My poem "Fed Herself" is in the new issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social! Check it and the rest of the new issue out here:

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 1d

@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social, @talkinghyphae.bsky.social, @carriganak.bsky.social, @whole-human.bsky.social, @oxgarnet.bsky.social, @cursetheground.bsky.social, Yuna Kang, Megan O'Patry, Lilly Purdy, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, Jacqueline Rosado, Em Roth, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, Brennan Thomas, ⬇️

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