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Counterpoint, you are meant to finish everything and have appetizers and if you cannot maybe you are not ready to visit america.

Can’t finish the whole cheesesteak? You are not ready to see the liberty bell. Cracker Barrel a little too much? Well maybe so is Yellowstone’s majesty.

We eat like this at home too, try upping your game and maybe you’ll be invited to dinner.

Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home.  The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”

If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese.  Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.

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Campbell County has a 34% drop in registered voters. A few thousand people could move there and flip the politics of the place that produces 41% of the coal used in America.

Wyoming, one of the most useless states in the union, has decided to make itself even more useless by disenfranchising about a quarter of the electorate in hopes of cementing its shitty republican majority and bloody senators.

any followers who live there and didn't vote previously:

go fucking vote

re-register so you can do item 1

#but then they would have to live in/near Gillette #a county so racist that the NYT sent a reporter there during the Obama administration to listen to people make credible threats on his life

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trying to raise the dead by Dorianne Laux

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guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn't figure out why it was happening

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Best friends older sister took us and taught us the fine art of stopping at a convenience store and sneaking snacks in.

what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

#jurrassicpark

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April Poetry Challenge Day Nine

Prompt - CRJ - "Stay Away" - Dedicated Side B

I tried your mouth and I can't come back, I don't know why Wherever I go, I still see your face, I don't know why But I can't make this wrong when I see your face, I don't know why The city's so hard when you sleep alone, I don't know why

Yeah, hey, I want to travel south this year Yeah, hey, yeah, tears that soak a callous heart Your weakness builds me So someday, you'll see Away, away, away, away

If I put on music, then I'll play your song If I play your song, then I think I'll lose it End up pulled up at the front of your lawn But I can't make this wrong Away, away, away, away

Talking 'bout forgiveness, I don't know why giving you my heart back, I don't know why Just so you can break it, I don't know why one more time before I say, I don't know why

Taking all my light and blocking out my vision I climbed a wall to touch your shadow If my love's too strong for you, walk away Ain’t got no how watchamacallit

#aprildailypoem

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I am being brave and trying new things (poetry) and sharing the result. The impetus is Storytelling Collective’s April Daily Poem challenge, but I am using a a Carly Rae Jepsen song title generator instead of their prompts.

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Favourite Colour (04/12/2024)

The more you see colours, the more you know them, recognising the subtle variances, the hues, the shades, the shifting gradations. There are so many to see once you begin. So when the sky, filled with clouds, could be called tin and winter brings whites and greys in rotations, the suddenness of blue is a revelation. The difference a shining shock to the system.

And the sky, hanging like blank canvas overhead, is rent not with boiling dark grey of heavy rain but a true colour, for the weak sun's dripp'd thread to spool down and drape you once again. Retreating, greys reflect dimly in its stead. The light even and the colours soft within.

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And since you have/get to see two poems in a day as I make up a skipped day here is the best I could find quickly in my archives of some of the sky I mean:

ID: A photograph, in soft focus, of softly rolling hills thickly packed with evergreen trees, giving the impression of an undulating dark green carpet. In the foreground is dark wet road backed by more distinct shapes of pines or firs. The top of the rolling hills is being nipped at by a bit of mist that fades seamlessly into a white, evenly-clouded sky. End ID.

#bonus photo

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April Poetry Challenge Day Eight

Prompt - CRJ - "Picture" - Curiosity

not in a mean way but it’d be kind of great if gregory crewdson had stayed in his new wave band that let me take your photo song kinda bangs and i could do with less covers and more songs

#aprildailypoem

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April Poetry Challenge Day Seven

Prompt - CRJ - "Put It to Rest" - The Loveliest Time

I’ve had the same Ben Folds song in my head every morning for a week not a particularly good one at that I mean obviously an effective melody so good in that sense I shouldn’t equate good with what I like I love tons of shit the worst dank ground scrubbing mess

I’ve been trying to force Ben out with all sorts of versions of Peggy-o but I’m not married to the idea so I’ll set the cities free and see what comes back to me

and if I ever return and the cites burn and you step down the stairs and run fingers through golden hair and I tell you that Will-o is dead and he died for a maid

could you put it all to bead penniless in nola put to rest or be left like all the ladies of the area-o

#AprilDailyPoem

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I am being brave and trying new things (poetry) and sharing the result. The impetus is Storytelling Collective’s April Daily Poem challenge, but I am using a a Carly Rae Jepsen song title generator instead of their prompts.

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Let's Sort The Whole Thing Out (04/10/24)

There's trepidation in naming a thing, by giving something a name you expose it to all the possible pitfalls.

Most things grow in the sunlight, And it's good to bring things into the light, air things out, discuss them in the open.

But things do flourish in the dark. Rhubarb tastes better and is more tender grown in darkness, and grows so fast you can hear it.

So maybe this thing can stay hidden. At least for now, and when it is revealed maybe it will be all the better for the seclusion.

#poemspoem!

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April Poetry Challenge Day Six

Prompt - CRJ - "Sunshine on My Shoulders" - Tug of War

but never as warmly as when Icarus II delivered it's payload

#AprilDailyPoem

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April Poetry Challenge Day Five

Prompt - CRJ - "Psychedelic Switch" - The Loveliest Time

just need a few years more to feel like i got a good run of it

waking euphoria but unfortunately like the tv show

lucid dreaming but unfortunately like a rich person car

puttin on the ritz but like the cracker

i'll own that one as not unfortunate

meditating on your lips there’s just enough room

if you breathe deep and count in

#AprilDailyPoem

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Listen, gang: it's rare that I ask you for anything explicitly. But after the awkward hell that she endured on my behalf, and given that she's one of the funniest standups traipsing around LA right now...

...please, please, PLEASE go on Instagram and follow Kaylin Mahoney.

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April Poetry Challenge Day Four

Prompt - CRJ - "Surrender My Heart" - The Loneliest Time

I’m underwater

on this loan

how can I be expected to keep up

instead of just surrendering

my heart

or wait,

do you think I could park it under an unsteady tree?

Would it look suspect? How long should I wait after taking out a comprehensive plan?

#AprilDailyPoem

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April Poetry Challenge Day Three

April 03 - Prompt

Carly Rae Jepsen - "I Know You Have a Girlfriend" - Kiss: International Bonus Track

I didn’t want to tell you but she is the best part of your channel, not for any prurient reasons, but just that there are times when she telecasts an affection for you, not the performative one played for the camera when trying a product or food you just bought at far flung market, but like a moment after that when there is a look a knowing glance a recognition a moment sort of unintentionally shared, and listen whatever it is who you are, you are it too, contained in it, it as much it, as anything in that moment you are to. 

#AprilDailyPoem

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I am being brave and trying new things (poetry) and sharing the result. The impetus is Storytelling Collective's April Daily Poem challenge, but I am using a a Carly Rae Jepsen song title generator instead of their prompts.

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Call me maybe (04/04/24)

Imagining the goblins would carry you away and keep you there safe and sound. You give your name so easily to all, too ready to trade your soul for a wish.

The careless way you comport yourself here each movement a dare to superstition.

You've done the math and could lose a hunr'd years and stepping out from under some green hill, find a fresh set of problems at your feet. Something new at least, rather than old pain

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it's give the little man to the dogs thursday