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Author, creative, and professor. "Son of God" was released via Spartan Press in 2024. Check it out for some deconstructive goodness https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/son-of-god-rob-yates/1145596380 (Migrating website/gallery, back with prints summer 2025)

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World on fire, but hey, man, daughters bought me scratchers, and I have won a dollar and a chance at a thousand tomorrow. Here's to tomorrow. #daughters #fathersday

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Thousands of streets quake with fury. Asphalt boils over lit birthday canons. Wider than a batallion of tanks, an entire nation is in the streets. The thunder on the horizon is no coronation of Zues. It's a raging proof, that Donnie, you don't have the fucking numbers. #poetry #nokings #poet

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#nokings

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Explosion of #Spring blooms. Original #photography from a #kansas garden.

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"Poetry is chain smoking" from "Son of God," 2024 Spartan Press, Kansas City. "Menthol flavored madness cooling the tongue..." #kansascity #writing #poetry

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#spring #inbloom #photography. Damn beautiful weekend so far.

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Some pre-work #photography on a new acrylic #art piece for the spring. My Cherry Blossom was looking gorgeous this evening.

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Being dad to the coolest. #kansaswedding #dad

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Good 'ol #KC at The Savoy last week. Missing spring break already #kansascity

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This one was just for fun (and a birthday present) - "Mid-century Sunset" #painting #acrylic #art

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What would #Hellboy do? #fuckfascists

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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

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"We're going to find out what happened and do what it takes to make sure it never happens again. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families for this tragic loss," was all that needed to be said about Flight 587. THAT is Presidential. But no, here comes some old turd blaming black people.

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If it exists you can refine it — but it must exist first. Make the sketch. Combine the ingredients. Try the routine. Be not deterred. You can make it perfect faster with the experience gained.

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Mixing up some landscape with sharp abstract tones and shapes. "Storm's Comin'." Featuring contributions from the kiddo sitting on my lap yesterday afternoon. #painting #kansasart #artists #acrylic

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An older #abstract from when I first started. A Reflections off a #Chicago skyline, named "untitled effort." Related #poem "untitled effort," beside. A day that signaled the death of a relationship, but was the birthplace of art. Poem from #sonofgod #poetry #writersky #trauma