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JC Reilly 🦃🦃🦃
@aishatonu.bsky.social
Poet, cat lover, eater of cheese.

Books: La Petite Mort (Finishing Line), What Magick May Not Alter (Madville), Daughter of the Wheel and Moon (Red Mare), Amo e Canto (Sow's Ear).

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I am writing a promotion letter today for someone who absolutely deserves it. It's exciting to see all of the person's accomplishments--but so hard to boil down into two pages!
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Why are chewable vitamin C tablets so big and so awful-tasting?
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Drinking a couple of drams of whisky to help ease some physical pain I'm in... first whisky I've drunk since I left Scotland. Glenmorangie 14 year, Port Cask finish. Delish!
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My father has been put in palliative care.
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Reposted by JC Reilly 🦃🦃🦃
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the cage –
And sings the taunting songs –
That never stop –

Yet, tonight, tonight –
When you sleep –
I will eat it.
Eight Famous Poems Rewritten by Your Asshole Cat
“This is Just to Say” I have eaten the eggs that were on the counter which you were probably saving for breakfast. They weren’t moist or savory lik...
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻 🎃 👻 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
One of the professors here at school--someone I admired and cherished--a poet, died of cancer this morning. He was one of my favorite people and someone who was like a beloved uncle. He walks with angels now.
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The graphic novel rendering of my collection What Magick May Not Alter got canned because the publisher's humanities/arts grants were canceled to Donald Rumpledipshit.
a man says thanks a lot bro in front of a white background
ALT: a man says thanks a lot bro in front of a white background
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October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Facilities just poured an algaecide in my air conditioner vents and the smell is so bad I had to open the window...letting in all the cold air. Waaah. :-D
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Despite all my rage I am still just a poet on a page.

#poetry #crabby
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Sitting in traffic and the person ahead of me is smoking some really shitty reefer, and of course, the smoke is blowing my way.
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The ant infestation in my office sucks so hard.
October 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Stabbing rejection:
No thanks, your poems make us
lose the will to live
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Received a beautiful, complimentary rejection. The only reason why they didn't accept the poem? The lines were too long. 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Unsalted nuts may be better for you, but they're a lot less delicious.
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Why even are men????
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Good morning, my lovelies! What wonderful #poems will you write today?

#amwriting
October 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Things that are on my shit list rn: Target pharmacy, FitBit, and Primo water service.
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Mistakes happen. Mistakes happen. Mistakes happen. (She tells herself, banging her head against the wall...)
a blurry picture of a person 's back with their hands on the wall
Alt: A person stands with their back towards the viewer and their hands on the wall. They are banging their head against the wall.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you are at a doctor's appointment, or are doing something important, and I happen to call you, LET YOUR VOICEMAIL GET THE CALL. It seems dumb to answer "I'm at a doctor's appointment" and then hang up very rudely.
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Poems with poorly-controlled rhyme schemes make me sad.
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Struggling today, too.
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm in a really foul temper tonight. That stupid 7 p.m. meeting I was in didn't help matters either.
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The only place I want ice is in my glass.
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM