"I used to be a run-of-the-mill paranoid American who believed quite rightly that power gives the rich license to steal, and that government was a cabal that built roads to keep the cars of the rich out of the mud."

Paranoia. First reply.

Au Revoir Raison!

New poetry--first reply.

"Our mono-pictoral black & white world gave reluctant way to a serial picture world with hints of color in it. It wasn’t until I left Romania in 1965 that I realized that the world could be multi-imaged and color-explosive, and that people could actually wear unconstrained faces."

On Photography.

Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.

"Of meat I have no fear. I understand terrestrial animals. They are most like me. I prefer them cooked, covered in sauce and, I believe, happy to be chewed and swallowed."

Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.

"The form of the poem should fit the subject: long fast lines, languorous jerky ones, or slow dark-syllabled half-sentences wrapped around domed Latinate dips and rises. Use the breath-measures that might have been those of your conceivers. One page, due Friday."

Exercises for poets. Link below.

"In 1990, I was on a panel in Wyoming. Our hosts presented every panelist with a chunk of the fallen Berlin Wall, rugged chunks of cement with an inch or so of rusted rebar sticking out. Pieces of the Berlin Wall were sought-after souvenirs."

The ransacking of the White House. Link below.

Come join myself, @miriamseidel.bsky.social, and other fantastic contributors next Tuesday, October 28th, at the Bowery Poetry Club. Link to more information in the reply!

"This is where we are -- staring at the future from the stands. Some of us are applauding. Others are booing. But none of us, fans or hecklers, can see, or even imagine, what it might look like."

New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.

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"Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke. All the surveillance and snitches can’t change that, but he has to be stopped before he turns the U.S. into a joke."

Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.

"If we are good boys and girls and stay close to our phones, take our Xanax and have no desire to leave the city, we can get close to annihilation without anxiety."

Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.

This week's post is devoted to my friend Jimmy Nolan, who passed this week. Link in first reply.

SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I.

you'll take me if you like it or not

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My Saturday Substack, "The New York Question," is out now!
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the sorrows of lanuage

yellow leaves on moulding brooks