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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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anybody who's about to say NYC doesn't count because it's not "real America" (read: rural, conservative, just as fucked over as everybody else by this admin): as somebody from "real America" 8.258 million absolutely counts more than 8 or 5 or 2 thousand. sorry. welcome to the real world folks

I like New York in June. How about you?

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

With apologies to LCD Soundsystem: New York, I love you, but you are NOT bringing me down.

Like a scene out of some science fiction film... which is what we're living in, now.

It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity. ~rim shot~

Feeling as if I’ll be using “Our status is Tomb” in the near future.

after much deliberation over my vote, i decided to rank andrew cuomo, under "who do you want to place into a small metal box and then banish that box to a lower dimension, living the rest of his or her life in a flat world, a torturous plane of existence." for comptroller i voted for mark levine

Where have you gone, Lake Breeze? A city turns its sweaty brow to you.

Delmore Schwartz

Accurate.

Just change the name from Supreme to Supremacist Court and get it over with.

DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK CUOMO DON’T RANK

Once, long ago and far away, I had sex for hours with this song on repeat in the background. I felt you should know.

A drop of good news.

love this picture of a novelist sitting in on the poetry workshop

A friend just made a World War III joke, and I said, Hey, it’s not WW III yet, and then a minute later I saw that Iran attacked bases in Qatar.

This is great… except for that comma.

Any number of things to say; little energy or will to say them. Except for “Don’t rank Cuomo.”

My Darling Clementine (1946), John Ford

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

I learned about the bombing last night just before going into my 40th high school reunion, and I suddenly remembered the first punk zine I ever saw, shown to my by a friend while we sat on the bleachers during gym class: it was called REAGAN DEATH.

All over the world, people just want to live their lives.

Punk in 1979 spraying “No future” on a wall may not have grasped just how no future it would get

Already there.

“It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around.” - @eccantwell.bsky.social on JAWS

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Happiness is finding, in the Little Free Library, a Peanuts book from the year you were born that also sums up your philosophy of life.

Moon and Cow — Alex Colville, 1963

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

Jenna Barton

Yeah, okay Satan, today would be fine.