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i've died on smaller hills, so i can't judge. but i do think it's funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan's absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs

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Cunnilingus VS. The Virgin Mary

Way back in the very early 90s, I wrote a poem about cunnilingus. At the time (late 80s to 1995 or so), poetry was completely dominated by men. All the big name poets were men. The publishers were men. The critics were men. It was accepted back then that poetry was really two separate genres: robust, insightful, vigorous poetry written by men; and soft, nurturing, quiet poetry about small things and gentle emotions written by women. Utterly shitty, I know, but that's how it was in the Dark Ages. I wrote angry, in-your-face, visceral poetry. And it pissed me off that the Big Topics of sex, violence, appetite were all reserved for men. So I wrote this:

Poet as Chalice

I arch over the bed like some marble triumph, whimpering, blind, drunk on you.

I grip you with secret muscles you can only know by proxy, explored with fingers and tongue.

My hands know you, every shape of you.

The taste of you is imprinted, primitive, on my every cell.

You make me sing… syllables drawn from some ancient well.

I am deep water.

I am your Grail.

Drink your fill,

this wine is yours.

Yep, it's a poem about cunnilingus. And it was published in Poetry Magazine. They had a letters section back then. In the next issue, there was a long letter printed about my poem. The writer was a man. (Don't remember the name, now...that was nearly 40 years ago.) He rhapsodized about my poem, went into considerable depth analyzing each line, and concluded... ...that it was an allegory for the Virgin Mary. A deeply Catholic ode to virginity and sanctity. Mary as the Grail. Mary as the Fount. He praised my Christian piety. I was floored. How could someone so very thoroughly miss the entire point? My flabber was ghasted. I wrote a response, saying "I'm an atheist. The poem is about oral sex." The letter was printed in the next volume, then I had to wait for his response. Which, in its entirety, was: No it's not. I dream of someday having the monumental confidence of a mediocre man.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My more recent poetry, along with the True Adventures of my Demon Horse Michael, is available in my Kofi shop. https://ko-fi.com/idiomagic/shop

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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I cut my fucking hair

got tapped by two different districts to substitute for them come fall. it's not a contract like I was hoping for, but given that I was at 0.8% success rate as far as actually scoring interviews went, and 0.0% at getting an actual job - I'll take the work where I can get it. at least I'm not going to be unemployed.

and tomorrow I'm going and cutting my fucking hair

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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately

she’s 35 years old, by the way

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im gonna be honest gang i really don't care if a 16 year old sees porn. i think the circumstances & context around your first interaction with sexuality is a lot more important in whether or not it will be traumatizing in some way than the sex itself. like i think the first time i ever looked up porn i was 12? which is a very normal age as well. and i was also on tumblr where i saw a lot of people saying "hey porn isn't realistic" so when i watched porn i was like hmm interesting, maybe hot, but i's not good advice. and that was that. watching porn didn't lead me to engage with any adults, it didn't make me upset, all it did was help me visualize things and later explore my own sexuality. and im not saying there's no rules i couldn't get behind regarding minors and sexual content because we do have these concepts for good reasons. but i keep seeing people be like well OBVIOUSLY we should keep minors from watching porn! and im just like idk! do we really need to be majorly concerned with preventing teens from accessing porn as much as we need to make sure there is bountiful, educated and compassionate sex ed, workers rights for sex workers, and awareness around abuse? maybe the solution is better positive than negative

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I'm so sad in such a strange way to hear about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting officially shutting down. It's a weird feeling. Most of it is the intellectual level of "oh this is SO fucking bad and terrifying that we'll no longer have federally supported public information channels anymore, it will ALL be through the private market, not to mention the stark reminder of the US government's continued descent into anti-intellectualism and fascism," all of which makes my stomach sink.

But on a smaller level it is the disappearance of something that was so ubiquitous to American childhood. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Americans can hear the exact intonation of this phrase in their head: "This program made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by viewers like you. Thank you."

There is a lot more that could be said about the likely repercussions of this. In addition to being sad, I am also exceedingly furious. I wish despair upon all the Republicans who helped kill the CBP just because it took its mission seriously and refused to broadcast overt right-wing propaganda as news.

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got tapped by two different districts to substitute for them come fall. it's not a contract like I was hoping for, but given that I was at 0.8% success rate as far as actually scoring interviews went, and 0.0% at getting an actual job - I'll take the work where I can get it. at least I'm not going to be unemployed.

and tomorrow I'm going and cutting my fucking hair

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Writing a new part to new Amish Dennis Whitaker fic and for research purposes I needed to make pickles.

I now have 29 jars of pickles.

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Man. MAN.

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