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Grand Old Jack | Spelling it Out #1
What’s Grand Old Jack? I recently submitted my poem Grand Old Jack to citizen trans* project, which highlights trans and gender non-conforming people’s responses to living in These Unprecedented Times. This piece was first drafted in January, just before I became bedridden for a week and ended up writing a thicc multi-paragraph prose piece that…
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indoctrination:insecticide
Regarding my frustrations with climate change and censorship. It should not be 90 degrees for consecutive weeks in a Midwestern June. June is for 70 to 80 degrees, July and August are for 80 to 90 degrees — everyone knows this. But not Gen Alpha. They have no idea how good we had it. How…
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“The Peace of Wild Things” and me
Jan. 3, 2020: I wrote this in my notes app… Been doing a lot of thinking about songs and how they can tie to bittersweet memories. “The Peace of Wild Things” is running through my head forward and backward. What it means to me is so much more than its message, its frantic piano introduction…
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