barton smock

He/Him, poet, father. Most works are self published, are pay what you want. Full-length 'Wasp, gasp.' (2023, Incunabula)

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

I have all the words that have gone missing to say that I am thankful for being in the August 2021 run of Poem-A-Day at https://t.co/Z6XBu8bDtU as guest edited by Kazim Ali
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[barton smock @bartonsmock]

@WriteToRebel So kind. DM me an email and I will send PDFs of some of my collections your way, or a physical address if you want hard copies.

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2022

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circa 2011, not an endorsement of

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the answer is always they are rich, have time, are worshiped for what they are doing, and have access to healthcare, but they'll always get asked what's your secret your workout your skincare routine

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yrs

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[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

“I was stuck in traffic after attending an event for an AIPAC front group so I couldn’t (accidentally, and in good faith) vote to impeach the person prosecuting the war AIPAC enthusiastically supports” ok if you say so

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

FIRSTLASTGRIEF

I am here to tell touch about my hands but all I can see is you

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@aliner Ok getting it now!

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super long time ago but it is still

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

a left-wing prepper starts with, is community. As soon as you start building out a little pantry for yourself as a leftist, you should be thinking about who gets to share that food with you when the chips are down.”

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[barton smock @bartonsmock]

Eric Shonkwiler:

"And if I have enough rice and flour and beans in my basement, it’s true to some extent that I can live until I die,” Shonkwiler said. “But you’re going to die of something else. And you’re going to die of something simple that having anybody around you with

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

any kind of expertise could have prevented. And at least in the popular idea of what a prepper is, that’s their drawback. They have built up this castle around them, and they have forgotten to populate it with people, and in particular people who care about them. And that’s what

[Stephanie Kaylor @sm_kaylor]

I wrote about the sex worker memoir industrial complex in a piece for the latest issue of Apogee—one of my favorites around. Read the whole issue! & it reads best on a computer

https://t.co/WvMLzg1TVo

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

but I need to see good people die trying and she says 'we are not the same' but I think it's pretty close

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

watching a totally fine spiders kill everyone movie and complain to Gen that these movies never reach their bleak potential bc the main character is always the only good-hearted person and everyone else is cartoonishly evil and she says she likes watching bad people die and I say

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

@TomSnarsky they all, mean, but this one means something hidden to a me I was trying to remember, and am glad it did some work elsewhere

[barton smock @bartonsmock]

2020

[Ben Niespodziany ☁️🐋 @neonpajamas]

Eva Alter 💔