Trying to Tell You

Smile in the Dark

the pleasures of the damned by charles bukowski [https://www.poetry.com/poem/53663/the-pleasures-of-the-damned] > the pleasures of the damned > are limited to brief moments > of happiness: > like the eyes in the look of a dog, > like a square of wax, > like a fire taking the city hall, > the county, > the continent, > like fire taking the hair > of maidens and monsters; > and hawks buzzing in peach trees, > the sea running between their claws, > Time > drunk and damp, > everything burning, > everything wet, > everything fine. Karen's Site [https://www.karenmsteiger.com/] Clean Margins Here! [https://bookshop.org/p/books/clean-margins-karen-steiger/77b5bffd7fc43dda?ean=9781639808984&next=t] and Here! [https://kelsaybooks.com/products/clean-margins?_pos=1&_sid=fd0c06ec6&_ss=r] Mentions: Pulp Fiction [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction] Tim Burton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton] Rondel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondel_(poem)] Sonnet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet] Lamp Lit [Lamplit.net] Iroquois Theater Fire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_Theatre_fire] Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire] The Monkees [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees] Weird Al Yankovic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic] The Misfits [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_(band)] Star Trek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek] Strange New Worlds [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Strange_New_Worlds] Lower Decks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Lower_Decks] NIN [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails] GISH [https://gish.com/] AnteSocial [https://mishacollins.substack.com/] Random Acts [https://randomacts.org/] Gilda's Club [https://www.cancersupportcommunity.org/find-location-near-you] Gilda Radner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda_Radner] Gene Wilder [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder] Poetry School [https://poetryschool.com/] Nocturne Magazine [https://www.nocturnezine.com/] Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund [https://give.randomacts.org/campaign/763917/donate], How to Help MN Master List [https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qcfpmw/how_you_can_help_master_list/], How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally [https://randomacts.org/acts/] Food Not Bombs [https://linktr.ee/foodnotbombshtx], INARA [https://inara.org/gaza/], MAP [https://www.map.org.uk/], Islamic Relief for Palestine [https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/], The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund [https://gabusittahchildrensfund.org/] Legacy of War Foundation [https://www.legacyofwarfoundation.com/] UNHCR [https://www.unrefugees.org/], *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too [https://linktr.ee/poemsandwhiskeypod] if we're being honest here lol). **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat. ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound [https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Searching for a Trail

Surprised By Evening by Robert Bly > There is unknown dust that is near us > Waves breaking on shores just over the hill > Trees full of birds that we have never seen > Nets drawn with dark fish. > > The evening arrives; we look up and it is there > It has come through the nets of the stars > Through the tissues of the grass > Walking quietly over the asylums of the waters. > > The day shall never end we think: > We have hair that seemed born for the daylight; > But at last the quiet waters of the night will rise > And our skin shall see far off as it does under water. Rachel Lauren Myer's Links [https://linktr.ee/rlmyers] Mentions: Memezine [https://www.memezinelit.com/] Elise Tran [https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2Felisethi&data=05%7C02%7Cnmolly%40wustl.edu%7C3ff6235fd4ff4330b39508dcbbe371a6%7C4ccca3b571cd4e6d974b4d9beb96c6d6%7C0%7C0%7C638591832739928557%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3IXo06vCgVwxyDcXxWUn%2FRa6gsjlOXk2SBY99csddzI%3D&reserved=0] Robert Hass [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hass] Brenda Hillman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Hillman] Ada Limon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lim%C3%B3n] Matthew Zapruder [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Zapruder] Wild Roof Journal [https://wildroofjournal.com/] The Archetypal Artist [https://www.abebooks.com/9780367177973/Archetypal-Artist-Reimagining-Creativity-Call-0367177978/plp] M.C. Schmidt [https://www.mcschmidtwrites.com/stories] Here Poetry Journal [https://herepoetryjournal.bigcartel.com/] Jason Labbe [https://www.instagram.com/jaylabbe/] Lamp Lit [lamplit.net] Chuck Tingle [https://www.chucktingle.com/] Gabriel Garcia Marquez [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez] R.M. Haines [https://www.instagram.com/rmhaines.etc/] - Out of Its Wooden Brain [https://woodenbrain.substack.com/] Erin Belieu [https://www.erinbelieu.com/] Lucas Restivo [https://www.instagram.com/louielibrary/] Battlestar Galactica [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)] Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund [https://give.randomacts.org/campaign/763917/donate], How to Help MN Master List [https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qcfpmw/how_you_can_help_master_list/], How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally [https://randomacts.org/acts/] Food Not Bombs [https://linktr.ee/foodnotbombshtx], INARA [https://inara.org/gaza/], MAP [https://www.map.org.uk/], Islamic Relief for Palestine [https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/], The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund [https://gabusittahchildrensfund.org/] Legacy of War Foundation [https://www.legacyofwarfoundation.com/] UNHCR [https://www.unrefugees.org/], *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too [https://linktr.ee/poemsandwhiskeypod] if we're being honest here lol). **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat. ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound [https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Third Wednesdays with Kurt

Part 1 of Mother Night [https://munraimondi.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/vonnegut-mother-night-min-reformat.docx] by Kurt [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/mother-night-by-kurt-vonnegut--/252693] Vonnegut Jr [https://www.kvmlshop.org/product/mother-night/57?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=24] > ft additional voice work by Kristopher Terry [https://www.instagram.com/kris.hasacamera/] Howard W. Campbell Jr. is in jail for Nazi war crimes and by all fair accounts he deserves to be there. Here is his own account for the record. How fair it is, is up for consideration. Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund [https://give.randomacts.org/campaign/763917/donate], How to Help MN Master List [https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qcfpmw/how_you_can_help_master_list/], How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally [https://randomacts.org/acts/] Food Not Bombs [https://linktr.ee/foodnotbombshtx], INARA [https://inara.org/gaza/], MAP [https://www.map.org.uk/], Islamic Relief for Palestine [https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/], The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund [https://gabusittahchildrensfund.org/] Legacy of War Foundation [https://www.legacyofwarfoundation.com/] UNHCR [https://www.unrefugees.org/], *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too [https://linktr.ee/poemsandwhiskeypod] if we're being honest here lol). **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat. ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound [https://www.epidemicsound.com/saved/27661383/]. Theme song for this production of MN is Until the World Ends by The Arch Tremors ft Lollo Gardtman [https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/10ad6ebd-58a2-3ccc-a8af-a03f0b487bc1/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

To Reach You

> My house says to me, “Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.” > And the road says to me, “Come and follow me, for I am your future.” > And I say to both my house and the road, “I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is > a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things.” -- Kahlil Gibran from Sand and Foam [https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500611h.html] Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley [https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/marcus_benjamin_ray_bradley] : Imagining All The People: Poetry Inspired by the Characters in the Lyrics of The Beatles [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/imagining-all-the-people-marcus-benjamin-ray-bradley/1148021227?ean=9780983919926] The Beatle Works LTD [https://www.thebeatleworksltd.com/imagining-all-the-people] Book Baby Direct [https://store.bookbaby.com/book/imagining-all-the-people] Mentions: John Compton [https://linktr.ee/poetjohncompton] Willie Carver [https://williecarver.com/] Marbles on the Floor [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/marbles-on-the-floor-how-to-assemble-a-book-of-poems/37423688/#edition=65398578&idiq=54221825] The Archetypal Artist [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-archetypal-artist-reimagining-creativity-and-the-call-to-create_mary-antonia-wood/31100580/?resultid=5f8a8115-7d5a-472f-850a-6bf3a7984e36#edition=60722305&idiq=52036666] Stephen King : On Writing [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/on-writing-a-memoir-of-the-craft-by-stephen-king/245878/?resultid=d21c3c99-609b-4b62-b980-87a3b12641e3#edition=5509871&idiq=3948955] Kurt Vonnegut [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut] and Museum [https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/] Supernatural [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(American_TV_series)] Jack Kerouac [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac] The Beatles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles] Led Zeppelin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin] Lamp Lit [lamplit.net] Pablo Neruda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda] Nizar Qabbani [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Qabbani] Ghost City Review [https://ghostcitypress.com/about] AWP [https://awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/AWP-Homepage.aspx] OIngo Boingo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oingo_Boingo] Sierra Ferrell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Ferrell] Orville Peck [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Peck] Dolly Parton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton] Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund [https://give.randomacts.org/campaign/763917/donate], How to Help MN Master List [https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qcfpmw/how_you_can_help_master_list/], How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally [https://randomacts.org/acts/] Food Not Bombs [https://linktr.ee/foodnotbombshtx], INARA [https://inara.org/gaza/], MAP [https://www.map.org.uk/], Islamic Relief for Palestine [https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/], The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund [https://gabusittahchildrensfund.org/] Legacy of War Foundation [https://www.legacyofwarfoundation.com/] UNHCR [https://www.unrefugees.org/], *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too [https://linktr.ee/poemsandwhiskeypod] if we're being honest here lol). **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat. ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound [https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Love's the Only Thing

> Demeter’s Prayer to Hades "This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge. / To understand each desire has an edge, / to know we are responsible for the lives / we change. No faith comes without cost, / no one believes without dying. / Now for the first time I see clearly the trail you planted, / what ground opened to waste, / though you dreamed a wealth / of flowers. / There are no curses—only mirrors / held up to the souls of gods and mortals. / And so I give up this fate, too. Believe in yourself, / go ahead—see where it gets you." --- Rita Dove [https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Dove.pdf] Jorge López Llorente 's Links [https://linktr.ee/JorgeLopezLlorente] Mentions: Alien Buddha Press [https://alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/] Suburban Witchcraft [https://suburbanwitchcraftmagazine.wordpress.com/] David Lynch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch] Joseph Heinrich Beuys [Joseph Heinrich Beuys] The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-archetypal-artist-reimagining-creativity-and-the-call-to-create_mary-antonia-wood/31100580/#edition=60722305&idiq=52036666] Dan Brown [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown] Finnegan's Wake [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake] Lauren Markham [https://www.laurenmarkham.info/] Paul Auster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster] Paris Review [https://www.theparisreview.org/] Caroline Polachek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Polachek] Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund [https://give.randomacts.org/campaign/763917/donate], How to Help MN Master List [https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qcfpmw/how_you_can_help_master_list/], How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally [https://randomacts.org/acts/] Food Not Bombs [https://linktr.ee/foodnotbombshtx], INARA [https://inara.org/gaza/], MAP [https://www.map.org.uk/], Islamic Relief for Palestine [https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/], The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund [https://gabusittahchildrensfund.org/] Legacy of War Foundation [https://www.legacyofwarfoundation.com/] UNHCR [https://www.unrefugees.org/], *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol). **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat. ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound [https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.