#Ollie schminkey

[haleyincarnate]

From “I NEVER WANTED TO BELIEVE IN GHOSTS”, “Dead Dad Jokes” by Ollie Schminkey

[godsopenwound]

Ollie Schminkey from Dead Dad Jokes

[nofeelingisfinall]

on fathers.

[no complaints, noah kahan || unkown || saturn devouring his son (1636), peter paul rubens || the sacrifice of isaac, jacob jordaens || shatter me, tahereh mafi || dead dad jokes, ollie schminkey || ivan the terrible and his son ivan on 16 november 1581, ilya repin || the angel of the lord preventing abraham from sacrificing his son isaac 1616, pieter lastman || how do we forgive our fathers?, dick lourie || I wanted to be there when my father died, sharon olds || saturn devouring his son, francisco de goya || ivan the terrible and his son ivan on friday, november 16th, 1581, shustov, nikolai semyonovich || heartburn, nora ephron || unkown]

[lifeinpoetry]

i want all the things i want. i don’t cry anymore. it is what it is.

— Ollie Schminkey, from "the scab to peel back," Dead Dad Jokes

[geryone]

Dead Dad Jokes, Ollie Schminkey

[llovelymoonn]

dad, i just want to be enough

alan davies just ignore him \\ keith haring journals, november 7 1978 \\ ollie schminkey my father

kofi

[readtilyoudie]

his mother brings me a photograph of him as a teenager, and his mouth is open, wide with laughter, and i am the one who doesn't exist.

Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey

[universalinvariant]

Some favorites from Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey

[sharedinsanitea]

“You ask me if I hate myself

like it’s something I should

be ashamed of, and you know,

some days I’m still not sure

what healing looks like.”

- Ollie Schminkey

[frompoemsthativeread]

god will answer

for my love

only god

is

never

enough

for the living.

-Ollie Schminkey, My Father.

[iwontheidgafwar]

[haleyincarnate]

there is something about silence that only the woods understand.

Excerpt from “The Quarry, Sandstone, MN”, Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey

[godsopenwound]

Ollie Schminkey from Dead Dad Jokes

[impulsepolls]

if so, drop some of your favorite poems!

[lifeinpoetry]

i write my dead name in my father’s obituary. i don’t even think about it.

my dead name doesn’t feel like such a dead name while i’m standing next to my dad’s corpse.

i don’t feel bad about writing my dead name in my dead dad’s obituary. what does it matter which name my dad used to call me when he can’t call me anything anymore.

in this moment, i don’t give a fuck about what my gender is or isn’t. what people think it is or isn’t.

there are some things that are alive, and i am one of them.

and there are some things that are dead.

— Ollie Schminkey, from "i write my dead name in my father’s obituary," Dead Dad Jokes

[simmyfrobby]

Nolpat poem?

Amy Hempel, Bianca Stone, Charif Shanahan, Ollie Schminkey, Marina Tsvetaeva