Poet. Writer. Cataloger of rare books.
San Francisco
Joined July 2009
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Hey! I've got three poems up at Hobart today, contemplating life, death, Charles Baudelaire, and Elliott Smith, as one is wont to do. Many thanks to the kindly editors.
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Saw a band I really like the other night, and when I went to their merch table, ALL their T-shirts were white. WHITE. Their marketing person must be fired immediately. I'm not wearing a white T-shirt, no matter how good a band is.
Hey, I've got a piece of short fiction in the new issue of Anti-Heroin Chic. It's the first prose piece I've published in a while. It's about North Beach. And the human condition. And art. And love. And death. Or something.
heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/l…
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When they arrest Stephen Miller, they should bring a net so he can't escape by transforming into a cloud of bats.
A car full of drunk girls just drove by my place, all of them singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the top of their voices, and friends, I kinda teared up a bit.
This Halloween, I'm gonna be a guy who sits around in his apartment in his jammies and drinks too much coffee.
Even if you have really nice headphones, some music needs to be heard in the open air. Some records only come truly alive when they're blasting through some speakers, filling a room, and you go, ah, I get it!
Just finished reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves and enjoyed it a great deal. Now, I really need to dive into something a bit less Woolfy for a bit, to take a little break from contemplating my looming mortality. I'll get back to it soon, fear not!
I made the mistake of saying in a post that I thought the new Fontaines DC album sounded okay, and now my feed is solely people talking/arguing about Fontaines DC as if nothing else existed in the world, as if they are a more interesting band than they actually are.
I bought a facsimile dust jacket for my first edition of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, so their will be no confusion as to what book I am perfomatively reading on the train.
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Even though we're quickly moving towards a post-literate society, you can tell that books remain sacred objects that carry enormous power and authority in our culture based on how uncomfortable they make people who don't engage with them regularly
"My aversion to effort becomes an almost writhing horror before all forms of violent effort. War, energetic and productive labour, helping others - all this strikes me as the product of an impertinence..."
Same, Fernando Pessoa, same.
It's always sobering to go to a rock show, and you get there, look around, and think, Jesus fuck, why is it all just dumb-looking old people here? And you slowly realize with horror that these are your peers. On the upside, I looked better than like 95% of the rest of 'em.
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People are still complaining about free verse in 2026… when it has existed for centuries, and poets continue to use rhyme and meter, including (often) mixed with free verse. The complaints have little to do with poetry and a lot to do with reactionary culture war rhetoric.