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The Halloween Post

It's the last day of the month, so I suppose I address two topics: National Coming Out Day and Halloween(ish). I've been thinking about the latter, and the former will be scheduled over the weekend. All's (s)hallow Perhaps it's because

A Playlist While I Am Depressed

I haven't been talking much. Or doing much of anything, really, beyond existing and feeling pretty bad ab-- Sorry. "Pretty bad" is a terrible understatement. I'm depressed. Capital D Depressed. Alanis Morissette, "Tapes" All these tapes in my head swirl around Keeping

TBT: The Classroom Does You A Disservice: How "they/them" as pronouns trip up ESL folks

Throwback Thursday: Originally posted to the VerboseTerse instance at Mon, 29 Oct 2018 03:45:51. This may also look familiar if you follow me on a certain social media site with a black background. "Singular they," I say. "Those are my pronouns."[1] Very recently

To Be Included Somewhere (1 take)

This spacesuit-layer-thin Is all that separates me from My idle thoughts in the dark-- But I dream, propelled, A shooting star Away from everything. Landside, I melt into my thoughts Unrecognizable As unknown quasars, Unstable as three-star systems. Gravity should Discover and pull me free.

I am banned from Tinder.

It's actually more boring than it sounds. I didn't get lewd and I didn't piss off thin-skinned misogynists. I'm back on dating apps; I figured it'd give me an edge in addition to doing things The Old Fashioned Way-- and

The Letter I Never Sent

I'm just... reeling over the fact that someone so talented, so beautiful, and so capable of good things can be so... needlessly ugly and hopelessly shallow.

An untitled post about a friend that died yesterday.

"I deal with my pain by writing." That is how the original draft began. This is what I said to my girlfriend an hour ago. It's still true. And it's been a week. A typical, stressful week: I had 17 dollars to my name

The Party After the Footer!

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