Risking Melodrama

His elegance hides a crushed conscience. Author @pubgen. Editor @FreeStateReview. A thrilling pessimism. Aries. Has almost started chapter one.

[Risking Melodrama @_BarrettWarner]

When yur a kid you think “if only I run fast enough I can catch that bird.” That’s how I want to write.

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@Loverdesart and the clam shell by her foot to make it seem more sea scape ish!

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Instead of telling people I'm a poet, I just say that I'm increasingly influenced by the Spanish language surrealists, and then I gently sip my Toronto.

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@ambernoelle my kid picked up sitar and sarod and after Berklee went to India and then I started paying attention to non-western time signatures and rethinking poetic meter and also spent years trying to make a curry that curried itself

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When you walk somewhere do you wave your arms in big circles?
I do.

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Just got the worst personal rejection of my life: "Your characters are interesting, but so is a two-headed carrot."

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@amygcb https://t.co/IdO4UlN8jB

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@blakebutler I also flew into Dallas-Fort Worth and everybody clapped although we hadn't landed.

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So happy when I'm dreaming and I think, "miles to go before I wake."

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My life: jogging to catch a bus going somewhere I don't want to be. #isthatseattaken?

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@chillsubs Totally limited omniscience.
https://t.co/WmmgJ3Oi8k

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@jerichobrown There must be a single Arabic word for what you're describing.

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@CowboyJamboree Me. (do wanna be contributors count?)

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@erinisaway waking up is so much nicer than falling asleep

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@chenchenwrites is heart break one or two words or with a dash thing?

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@chenchenwrites "Jesus wept." (The Bible).

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@erinisaway ditto

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every time I think I get the deep South the deep South just gets a little deeper

[Jessica Bonder @jessbonder]

A draft is a house you've been living in for too long a time...

You get used to how things look...

You think that's how they should be..

Until an editor comes along and asks, Why don't you move that chair?

[Risking Melodrama @_BarrettWarner]

@HubCityPress lol developmental and line editor seeks website maker
https://t.co/jFqtNXAwRg