Jose Padua Better Watch His Language

Jose Padua - poetry, non-fiction, fiction, photography. Author of A Short History of Monsters (Miller Williams Prize 2019)

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For Fathers’ Day this year: My Father Remembers Many Legends While I’ve Forgotten Nearly Everything I Knew About Math And Chemistry. At my substack:
https://t.co/YKr8uTARM7

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My story about the birth of The Fugs—text together with video of the story as read at No Bar in 1993—at my substack. Don’t even bother to ask—this is exactly how it happened, X-Ray Spex see-thru glasses and all. https://t.co/OwNzcwh9Yx

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A poem, now at my Short Histories substack. At the link below.
https://t.co/ZgDNAkM4x1

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@JDVance What's wrong JD, your wife making you sleep on the sofa again? Oh wait....

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@JDVance You miss your sofa, don't you?

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@PeteHegseth Jesus would have flushed you down the toilet, Pete. (Ok, they didn't have toilets then so he would have just thrown you into the turd hole)

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@PressSec You stand with Nazis and pedophiles AND you stand with ICE? Who would have thunk?

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MERRYHAPPYHOLIHANNUKWANZAACHRISTMAS: A MIX IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANY AND ALL ANTI-FASCISTS FOR THE YEAR 2025 AND BEYOND
My holiday mix is up. It’s seasonal AF this year.
https://t.co/PsTQz8ppym

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@elonmusk Shut up and put in another ketamine suppository, Elon.

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In these days of certain madness and uncertain escape, here’s to getting away—getting away from it, with it, in spite of it. And, sometimes, just staying and fighting it. My poem is at Vox Populi today (thanks, Michael Simms!) https://t.co/HxtBUnbyDO

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I have a poem up at Vox Populi today. Thanks, Michael Simms!

https://t.co/SQGYndFTfN

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Happy to be included in the Best American Poetry for 2025 among poets whose work I have admired for a long time (Bob Hicok, Sharon Olds, David Trinidad, etc), a poet helped make my work more widely known (Billy Collins, who chose me for the 2019 Miller Williams Prize) and more

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Congratulations to my brother @JosePaduaWriter, selected as one of the Best American Poets of 2025!

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A poem for Mother's Day 2025

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A poem is like a billionaire in space in that you wish it would just go all the way out there and not come back.

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Today's poem and snake forecast....

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@SenatorBanks Congratulations, all the assholes and idiots are proud of you

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I have some poems in the new Gargoyle online. Thanks to Rick Peabody for having me!
https://t.co/geFfpv5WX0

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@elonmusk @DOGE I like the way you look like you just got food poisoning at an all you can eat buffet--well done, Elon!

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@elonmusk there we are then