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Incapable of being content
a fall reorganization of my Substack
Oct 9 • 
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Certainty in love is boring
a not-terrible love poem
Sep 25 • 
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The older I get, the girlier I become
reminder: the patriarchy hates girls
Sep 11 • 
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Because this Enneagram 7 loves a challenge
100-day creative project from The Book of Alchemy
Aug 21 • 
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What Andrea Gibson and Ozzy Osbourne gave us
artists and their impact (and where I fit in)
Aug 6 • 
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The productivity meter (as a poem)
and on allowing myself to be a writer
Jul 23 • 
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A writer and a doctor walk into a bar
on downplaying the importance of my work
Jul 7 • 
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The salesman says this is the best computer for creating [content]
a poem about loss, kind of
Jun 18 • 
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Life isn't meant to be figured out
biting my tongue while hugging my heart
Jun 11 • 
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The pressure to be funny
fear of making any kind of claim
May 29 • 
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Poetry at the intersection of home and elsewhere
a looksie at some pieces from my manuscript
May 21 • 
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Didn't want to work there, and now I don't
on being laid off and the floating phase
Apr 30 • 
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