mark leidner

new book “Elegy for Pangaea” out 9/15/26 preorder 1st edition before it sells out:

[mark leidner @markleidner]

iambic tetrameter ass stick

[the human sadiepede 2 @hell_doe]

i'm sitting at the park. more people should be here filming content

[mark leidner @markleidner]

lost in the Backrooms but somehow my phone still works. watching Sully (the only movie I have downloaded on my phone) to pass the time. Tom Hanks’s performance is incredib—oh shit a giant Tom Hanks portraying Sully is coming hold on i gotta run through some labyrinthine corridors

[Joe Keller 9️⃣🇵🇸 @Joe_keller710]

Passed out at work after imagining a dark cartoon entering our world through a liquid mirror

[mark leidner @markleidner]

tom hanks appeared in my dream last night to scold me for not watching sully more than once. I saw it in the damn theater I said diffidently. You could’ve streamed it too, he pleaded. I have kids, tom, I can’t be rewatching 10 year old films that aren’t even good. he began to cry

[mark leidner @markleidner]

@tswift42069

[mark leidner @markleidner]

each morning I put one uncooked ravioli in a thermos. i pour hot water over it, steeping it like tea, and then i drink it all day at work (i work at the white house) and at the end of the day, as i take the last sip of the tea, the soft ravioli slides into my mouth, and i eat it

[Pete Lee @kungfupete]

You could see Jackie Chan making up an entire fight scene out of the thin air while Ratner was on the phone from the Rush Hour DVD extra.

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Four poems by Toni Morrison

[mark leidner @markleidner]

hey man is everything ok? I noticed a blinkered venality beclouding the redemptive potential of all your aesthetic grasping

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

His was the Light of the World, a lit match, or the whole city, burning.

- Robert Creeley, “For John Wieners” 🥹

[mark leidner @markleidner]

hey many is everything ok? I noticed you genuflecting in the grocery store in front of the ground beef and doing the sign of the cross in front of the buns in the bread aisle and muttering arcanely while swinging a censer of incense as you paced back and forth in the beer cave

[zac smith @zacsmithtweeto]

public elementary school library seems to have a 6" television screen dedicated to playing a 20 second loop of ai generated slop all day long, including during the after school book fair event

[mark leidner @markleidner]

hey man is everything ok? i noticed an 80k word document saved to your desktop that seemed to be a gritty cyberpunk retelling of anne of green gables

[Andrew Weatherhead @weeatherhead]

It would be cool if one NBA team traded to acquire every draft pick in a certain year's draft

[William Gerrard @Bill_Gerrard]

“…Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion… Women with the kind of walking that makes benches become men…”

[mark leidner @markleidner]

copying and pasting is a form of AI. people we need to be manually retyping that shit

[Matt Mixon @Mixonaintshit]

two of my conspiracy theories are that this movie was both part of a group of films meant to bolster confidence in the air travel industry post 9/11 and as a throw away film to study audience reaction to specific aesthetics for future comic book films.

[mark leidner @markleidner]

hey man is everything ok? I noticed when we fled a scary cave you ran head first into every single stalactite, and every single stalagmite you tried to hurdle hit you squarely in the crotch—meanwhile i was weaving though the very same obstacles with no issue, like the wind itself

[mark leidner @markleidner]

the prose in my latest novel is so breezy, people can read all 500 pages in one sitting and remember nothing about it, and the prose in my 500 word flash fiction piece is so turgid, not even one reader has ever finished it, but they all have a million opinions about what it means