Gregory Crosby
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
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The final lines of W. S. Merwin's "Thanks".
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The final lines of W. S. Merwin's "Thanks".
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I always forget the National Dog Show comes on after the parade and then I remember and it’s such a gift.
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I always forget the National Dog Show comes on after the parade and then I remember and it’s such a gift.
When you see this post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When you see this post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
Thankful for my wife, my dog, my friends, poetry (sure, why not), and that sweet soul music.
Sam & Dave "I Thank You" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Thankful for my wife, my dog, my friends, poetry (sure, why not), and that sweet soul music.
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The AI cult/ conspiracy/ industry must be destroyed (and is going to do it to itself)
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The AI cult/ conspiracy/ industry must be destroyed (and is going to do it to itself)
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worst forest/trees problem in generations is that a canto is A SECTION OF A LONG POEM. THAT'S IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE A CANTO BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE WORD LOOKED COOL ON YOUR MEMOIR. CANTOS ARE POEMS. THAT LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SLAMBOOK A CANTO AMERICAN OR OTHERWISE
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
worst forest/trees problem in generations is that a canto is A SECTION OF A LONG POEM. THAT'S IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE A CANTO BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE WORD LOOKED COOL ON YOUR MEMOIR. CANTOS ARE POEMS. THAT LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SLAMBOOK A CANTO AMERICAN OR OTHERWISE
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This by Wendell Berry counts among my faves, stunning in its simplicity.
"The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings."
"The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings."
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This by Wendell Berry counts among my faves, stunning in its simplicity.
"The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings."
"The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings."
“I want all books to be written by you.”
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“I want all books to be written by you.”
Evergreen.
What the hell are you talking about?
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Evergreen.
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
Augustus McCrae might be my new favorite character in literature.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Augustus McCrae might be my new favorite character in literature.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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My annual reminder that the point of Thanksgiving is not to celebrate the pilgrims or any of that crap; Lincoln never mentioned them once in his proclamation. Thanksgiving is about being grateful for Union victories.
(Well, in Chicago, it was mostly about getting sloshed as of 1870).
(Well, in Chicago, it was mostly about getting sloshed as of 1870).
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My annual reminder that the point of Thanksgiving is not to celebrate the pilgrims or any of that crap; Lincoln never mentioned them once in his proclamation. Thanksgiving is about being grateful for Union victories.
(Well, in Chicago, it was mostly about getting sloshed as of 1870).
(Well, in Chicago, it was mostly about getting sloshed as of 1870).
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Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg
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"It's against our Terms-of-Service for me to talk you into suicide," said the lazy&crazy, ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis, radioactive snake-oil machine
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"It's against our Terms-of-Service for me to talk you into suicide," said the lazy&crazy, ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis, radioactive snake-oil machine
Sometimes I write a poem, not a brilliant one but solid, solid in the sense that something long in my mind, something once inarticulate, is now somehow out in the wider world… and no one says a thing about it; it sinks out of sight like a conversation with the dusk.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sometimes I write a poem, not a brilliant one but solid, solid in the sense that something long in my mind, something once inarticulate, is now somehow out in the wider world… and no one says a thing about it; it sinks out of sight like a conversation with the dusk.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
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the vinyl edition of the dolly parton/emmylou harris/linda ronstadt album comea with a really incredible inner sleeve
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
the vinyl edition of the dolly parton/emmylou harris/linda ronstadt album comea with a really incredible inner sleeve
Dali’s Giraffes on Horseback Salad, the script he wrote for the Marx Brothers.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Dali’s Giraffes on Horseback Salad, the script he wrote for the Marx Brothers.
Probably not.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Probably not.
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At this point, our wealthiest citizens are such unrelenting sociopaths that the three Christmas ghosts don’t even bother trying.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
At this point, our wealthiest citizens are such unrelenting sociopaths that the three Christmas ghosts don’t even bother trying.
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The 4:30 class? Three people. New personal record.
One day I will finally learn to cancel Tuesday classes as well (morning class had seven people show up; afternoon class, only six).
Sex is great, but have you ever canceled your classes the Wednesday before Thanksgiving?
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The 4:30 class? Three people. New personal record.