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Joined December 2025
The Bulb Region retweeted
Check out these three poems. I’m a fan of the ghazal so especially like @absenceshell’s take on the form in the third piece.
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Tonight is my final night of training to become a CASA advocate for kids stuck in the judicial system, so while I’m finishing up class tonight, maybe you could spare a few minutes to read my latest micro? Thank you @sarpsozdinler/@BulbRegion for publishing this!
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Outstanding micro from @andrewcareaga here!
"Should I express condolences? Tell you I’m praying for you and your family? That would be a lie. I pray for no one but myself, and only when I’m desperate." Andrew Careaga (@andrewcareaga) is in The Bulb Region today with a stunning micro.
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So honored to have my micro published today in @BulbRegion! I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read. 👇👇👇
"Should I express condolences? Tell you I’m praying for you and your family? That would be a lie. I pray for no one but myself, and only when I’m desperate." Andrew Careaga (@andrewcareaga) is in The Bulb Region today with a stunning micro.
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read this
"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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This story is beautiful.
"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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I wrote this for Elizabeth, inspired by a song she shared with me youtu.be/nZzAHSU8jXo?si=W-Tn…
"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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Sergio Saturday 🤠
"Strange to fictionalize a life whose veracity isn’t yet solidified, as if its goodness prevents it from crossing the threshold into confirmed reality. A danger, once mythologized, it will never be true." Don't miss @BSkergio's wonderful new story in The Bulb Region today.
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These are wonderful.
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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much has been said (esp. by me) about my two poems in @BulbRegion today but before it’s all over, i want to talk about the second poem which is not about my dead grandfather but some ineffable bullshit about the origins of my sexuality. here’s a stanza i like. see ya.
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Both of Kat's poems are very good, but the second (which you need to open the website to read!) is an all-timer, for me.
two poems in @BulbRegion today, the first of which is about my grandfather, who was cool as fuck and would have loved the “pimped-out” coffin referenced in the poem.
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KAT GIORDANO? MOTION!
"when you died I thought, 'something real to be sad about.' at the funeral home I was the only one wearing black. baby’s first dead body." Don't miss Kat Giordano's (@giordkat) deeply intimate, tender poems in The Bulb Region today.
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