Someone needs to get to work on an "oy" emoticon. I need it multiple times a day.

Thanks

I can't "like" this but I appreciate your posting it. I spun many of those wire racks once upon a time.

Why are ICE agents uniforms allowed to say “Police” when they aren’t police?

Tyehimba Jess: "Beneath all, a 33-r.p.m. / orbit of a diamond-cut / tremble."

Bernice Johnson Reagon: "If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition."

John Tottenham: "...to be known for being obscure is in itself a sort of fame."

John Tottenham: "Maybe this is where I can finally begin, with the conviction that I have nothing to say."

Struck by Jeremy Denk's observation that "irony and wit" are the "neglected vitamin of music."

Mona Arshi: "I am a model of virtue. My axe, it grows dusty. / Meanwhile, I dream of goat."

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

Elizabeth Willis: "I am a leaf on your tree as you are on mine"

Charles Taylor: "serious philosophy cannot aid to ignore poetic insight"

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Elizabeth Willis: "That all languages outside the master's are deemed insurrectionist suggests how much the owning class understands the retribution it deserves"

Elizabeth Willis: "All families are eventually a little queer"

Mookie Betts, star of the LA Dodgers, doubled down on his remarks about Charlie Kirk. He said, “If you want people to speak kindly about you after you’re gone, then you should speak kindly while you’re alive.”
After receiving backlash, Betts responded with a follow-up: Be kind — now more than ever.

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

Preach, brother!

Marianne Moore: "The greenest place I have never seen"

Elizabeth Willis: "The repeated unmaking and remaking of America--as a concept and as an ongoing textual project--is not impossible. It is happening all the time."

Elizabeth Willis: "When the wind was in her ear, the prairie was talking."

"Why does my mind, like a loom, weave the world?" Mircea Cărtărescu

The quote and information written in charcoal against a white background. At the top is the Rumpus's full logo in white on top of a yellow ink splotch with "National Poetry Month" written beside it with a red underline.

"I give birth to a shadow & my wife gives birth to a / Bible & my wife’s wife gives birth to a handful of / rusted nails"

From "I Give Birth to a Shadow" by @mathiassvalina.bsky.social for National Poetry Month.

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I think Carl wrote Feel Flows and The Trader (with Jack Reilley) but great songs indubitably

"China Sea" on Cale's Helen of Troy album is not about Brian but sure is Wilsonian

Their publishers often insist on their supplying these intros. It may be the only part reviewers read.

Chapter 19 of Mircea Cartareacu's *Solenoid* rivals J.-K. Huysmans and Martin Amis in its depiction of dental horror.

Mircea Cartarescu: "The neighborhoods of childhood exist nowhere on earth. "

Mircea Cărtărescu: "Nothing is strange to a child, because he lives in the strange"