兔兒神

Book of craft essays, IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD, out December 1st. Preorder now ⬇️

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Sad, weird poems! Sad, weird poems forever!

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.

With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to the bottom as a residue.

It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.

—Anne Carson, from “Wildly Constant”

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Sorrysorrysorry the world has a big slash in it, and if you think the wound is sexy or helpful, at the end of the statement I will set fire to the abutting pasture, too.

—Paige Ackerson-Kiely, from "Book About a Candle Burning in a Shed"

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

racism isn't "edgy" humor or a differing "opinion." it's harm. it's abuse. it's violence. it's dehumanization. it's a system of power. it's cruelty.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

not mine though. it's all poetry. except for that recent post.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i love how many gay guys' instagrams are basically just underwear ads

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

@cocoazafreen ah, thank you!!

[morri the weedlien. @YAOIPATHY]

anyways remember that your little “learning experiences” are black ppls traumas. racism is a traumatizing experience and no one has to forgive you for it ever.

[finn 🍉 @ironasss]

everyone saying "well if you werent racist you mustve been homophobic or transphobic or ableist or—" is such an insane self report

[dire 🐰 @suqartalking]

white queers when you don’t forgive someone for being racist

[morri the weedlien. @YAOIPATHY]

“understand that it’s a privilege to have parents that taught you that racism was bad” have you LOST your MIND ??????😭😭😭

[stevie 🐞 @sapphodiI]

i don’t believe anyone when they say racist/otherwise cruel teenagers were just naive. they absolutely knew better. knowing better and doing it anyway was the appeal. they liked being edgy and thought it was funny. don’t pretend the wrongness of the thing wasn’t the entire “joke”

[🔪 killer buns 🐰 @desigotdone]

When I got beat up as a child because I’m brown, that was just ‘general racism’ guys, not your special aunty semiconductor racism, my bad.

[♡ Peachy ♡ @CattyPeachy]

y'all are always so quick to defend and victimize former racists because they were teenagers who "just had an edgy phase", but never care about the countless black & brown teenagers who were on the recieving end of that "edgy phase"

[elmo 🇩🇴🇭🇹🇵🇭🇨🇳 @steeeambyshelly]

It’s so crazy people are turning this slayyyter shit into “we were all bigoted when we were teenagers” when that’s not true? The kids you were torturing every day bc they were a minority definitely weren’t

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

We have only one minute
and I love you.

—Dunya Mikhail, from "Tablets V"

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Proofreading a smutty poem that's in my new book (forthcoming this spring) and I'm blushing again, even though it's been years since I wrote it.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

Times when I understand myself a little, I understand others less.

—Antonio Porchia, tr. W.S. Merwin

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

@natallman Yes, please!

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

There are many cheesy poems (some I adore), but are there many poems *about* cheese?

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

@natallman @DBrookshire Need this anthology!!