Alexander Nemser

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As the French have no word for entrepreneur, the Jews have no word for Christ.

[Alexander Nemser @AlexanderNemser]

I was starting to feel again that I hate this season with its empty materialism, family dysfunction, and roiling currents of political/ecological darkness, until I misread a woman's snowflake-themed hat as "LE TITS NOW" and I understood the true meaning of the winter descent.

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Interesting double meaning here: creative inspiration from the Staples crafting section OR calling from our spirit guides / alien mothership to escape this limited and illusory plane of reality?

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You don’t have to dig around too deep in most people’s history to find someone who made them feel stupid about poetry.
The Dreamsource of Un-needing, Part 1 https://t.co/WosCcBbFdt

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The Wages of the Underworld
In a sense, I was trying to renounce the inheritance of my descent to the underworld. We don’t learn culturally how to value periods of darkness, and part of me had written off all these fragments as simply worthless. https://t.co/gZipuFVrdw

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New Substack piece: "The Golem Plays HORSE"
https://t.co/36gFRc0FLs

It's a meditation on the legendary Golem of Prague, fathers and sons, Kafka's Odradek and Larry Bird...

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New Substack post! Take a winding journey into the mystical meaning of sunlight shining through leaves via the Song of Songs, David Bowie, and a mutual cosmic peepshow with the Source of Creation.
https://t.co/BEkXs34XzS

[Alexander Nemser @AlexanderNemser]

Launching my Substack: "New Jokes on the Old Path"
Reflections on poetry, mysticism, and and those mysterious visits to your childhood bedroom in dreams where you meet a raven who agrees neither to take nor give notes (what is that?!).
https://t.co/EMPkoqtQTq

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Hi @emlycarroll, this is Alexander, poet from the Cantab days! Hope this finds you staying as sane as possible. I have a Baffler question -- if you like, please DM me!

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“So I’ve been playing phone tag with a shaman“ is probably the most Los Angeles sentence I’ve spoken up to this point.

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Labor? More like Labyrinth Day, amirite?

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A dream is like an inside joke between your mind and sleep when you’re not there.

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If Nostradamus was alive today, he’d probably be amazed at how much he got wrong, and how much we still respect him anyway.

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“The best things in life are free / But you can give them to the birds and bees,” said a group of ingenious birds and bees.

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My girlfriend: “They say a woman can’t have it all, but I have neuroses about anti-Semitism AND nightmares where I’m working for the CIA.”

[Alexander Nemser @AlexanderNemser]

Walking in nature is like going to a couples therapist.
In the deep quiet, you and your partner share your hopes, fears and hidden insecurities.
Finally, the landscape/therapist pauses, and then says,
“Tweet tweet shshsh mmm zh-zh-zh murmurmurmur [untranscribable].”

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Irony of time passing: scarring, chaotic, unforgivable childhood experiences fade, and I think, “Wait, wait! Precious history is being swept away!”

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In the sinking kitchen evening, she eats her rain omelet on rent-controlled feet.

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Meaning is just consciousness slapping itself five.

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Criticize a man and he’ll fuck himself for a day; teach him to internalize an overactive self-critic and he’ll fuck himself for a lifetime.

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An I for an I makes the whole world blnd.