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Living life, reaching past boundaries, poet, the outline of a human being.

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I haven’t seen it

I’m not having any fun

I can’t remember how to search it

No party house

it’s all I talk about

Meanwhile where were you

I’m Garfield

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Monday Night

I’m trying to draw you a chainsaw
Okay I think I’m going to have a guess
I don’t know if I can get a hold of you
I just took a picture of the baby

-Jacob Ian Blankenship

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@ipod_video Context here? Did Griffin do blackface in that Funny or Die clip or what?

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@cableknitjumper @laurenthehough Really bad faith here. Only men getting riled up on the eve of the Chicago Public Schools system fighting one of the nation’s largest teachers unions to decide whether or not to go back to the classroom lol? Teachers need your attention and vigilance right now!

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A Political Ekphrasis

Moment of Bernard
as we watched Hope
called the invisible thing
rife with significance
named “abundance of caution”
cradled him in my
left arm
watched him grow
a cherry pit
in my throat

—JIB

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

"Out of an abundance of caution," we should expand Medicare to cover everyone in America.

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Are you ready to #rock
Me neither
I’m afraid
The monster
in my mirror
is so hot
I named him
after my pet
goat Suitcase
Suitcase! Stop
eating the tires
off the cars
in the junkyard
This has been
a message
from the world
No not that one
The one whose
name I forgot

— JIB © 2020

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The mind is so absorbed
it's almost useless!
Still, it will be your friend
if you let it,
your curdled little pet,
but not me
I'm here
to sing the song
that's been playing
at too low a volume
for your entire life
and that once
you finally hear it
you're free

-- grift orb © 2020

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A poet dies
No he doesn't
He jumps
into the ocean
death puked out
which is adjacent
to the oceans
of this world
and connected to them
by a hallway
with padlocked doors
but I can get you in
if you'd like
to swim back
for just 11.50
plus tax
Think it over

-- grift orb © 2020

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In my dream
I am sleeping
& having a
wonderful dream
& the grift orb
comes in thru
the window
& plants a wet
kiss on my cheek
& in the dream
I am having
in the dream
I am having
you are asking
what's a grift orb
& I'm explaining
if you have to ask
you're the mark

— JIB © 2020

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Known rival
Icarus
Landed
Late in the day.

“My friend Jacob,” he
Exclaimed with glee,

“Perchance could you
Lend me your
Ear? I need an
Audience as I
Search for the perfect
Ending.”

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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A flower
Cracks me up.
Really!
Of course, I
Suck at jokes.
Too many cooks
In this old kitchen.
Crooks, I mean.

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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Bring me as many
Errors as can be
Retrieved from
Near where
I was
Emancipated from

Being a
Replica of
Other failures of imagination

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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Cool how I
Organize my
Reasons for
Ostensibly
Negating
All that I

Very much hope
Illuminates
Reality and
Unreality
Simultaneously

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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#demdebate how will your policies support adjunct instructors at colleges and universities who are currently living in poverty

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Time is a flaxen-haired turtle
according to the
TV show that
I reference the most
in substitution for
a robust personality
as I slowly rewrite
all the songs on
my favorite album
to be about
a crane ex-wife

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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& the stars above stupidly
tossed across the sky
like a wreath on a mound of trash
& my eyes tired & dull
like two wreaths
buried in a mound of trash
& my trashcan overflowing
like all the love in the world
slowly fermenting
into a hideous galaxy

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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My heart is a self-styled daredevil
in a homemade rocket aimed
at the moon and the moon
in this metaphor is nothing
but the moon, the moon without
fringe symbolism leaking into other
parts of my life and the rocket
is another beautiful new day

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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All we can do is give the advice
we wish we had gotten
when it was our turn
to not know yet

I named my good son Exit

I should not have named
my good son Exit

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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Be the sea
you want whirled
into change

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020

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Watch

Like no one
is dancing

— Jacob Ian Blankenship © 2020