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Jake Fournier
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firefighter/poet
https://fournier.wiki/
thanks @danielpoppick.bsky.social, @chrus.bsky.social, and @dapowell.bsky.social for your help with the book this poem gave it's name to
Jake Fournier — Washington Square Review
Issue 54 Fall 2025
www.washingtonsquarereview.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
do you think maybe too many of our standard utensils are designed exclusively for cutting butter?

#utensils #butter #butterknife
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
everything you need to know about Osiris:
Jake Fournier | The Milky Way
www.taosjournalofpoetry.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Used booksellers of the world!
When?
When will you begin to use stickers with less stick?
For your inventory and internal records, you could use stickers like the stickers they use on apples...
September 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Instagram Tantalus, clicking through 1000 ethically-sourced exquisite chore coats, none sold in his size...
August 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
smiling hugely at a security

person when you walk past with

everything you stole

#improvingsituation
August 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
a superhero whose powers derive from the exactright brain mixture of PFAs and nanoplastics
August 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
reading a long poem with Bojan Louis at the Institute of American Indian Arts
2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series
Readings by Bojan Louis (Diné), Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet Nation Citizen and Salish Descendant), and Jake Fournier Join the Institute of American Indian Arts…
vimeo.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
they don't have to disappear dissenters or throw them in jail. the "invisible hand" of the market will take care of them all on its own.
CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
laughing when your waiter

at the tapas bar says

you ordered "a lot of food"

#worseningsituation
July 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I've told you all about my café/book, record, and porn store, We've Moved to 6213 Menaul, right?
July 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
next time you're feeling down just remember that, when he ran into the monkey-god Hanuman on the path to heaven, the mountain of the Pandavas, embued with mantric weapons that placed him in war above the rakshasas and celestials--the mighty Bhima--couldn't budge even Rama's servant's relaxed tail
July 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
all our systems, from the market to the traffic grid, are designed to incentivize risk, so why is it that the systems' petty functionaries, the bank tellers and traffic cops, so excessively fear it?
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reposted by Jake Fournier
Pride doesn't end when Pride Month is over…but this giveaway does! Repost or quote post by June 30th and we'll choose one winner to receive SIGNED COPIES of Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly + A Real Man Would Have a Gun! 💙📚 #booksky

US shipping only. Winner will be randomly selected on 7/1/25.
June 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
just realized that, back in February, I signed up for an intake appointment with a pcp named "O'Sickey" - almost makes up for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa not becoming pope
June 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
one of my great regrets in life is not having become a hyper-proficient funk bassist
June 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
not even short kings?
June 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by Jake Fournier
Mayor, City Council spar over paramedic staffing

A strife over paramedic staffing is testing the balance of power at the Albuquerque City Hall, which could reshape how the city responds to emergencies. At the center of the dispute is a City Council rule requiring two paramedics on every rescue…
Mayor, City Council spar over paramedic staffing
A strife over paramedic staffing is testing the balance of power at the Albuquerque City Hall, which could reshape how the city responds to emergencies. At the center of the dispute is a City Council rule requiring two paramedics on every rescue unit — a move the Keller administration says hurts emergency response and crosses into the mayor’s authority under Albuquerque’s strong-mayor charter.
nm.news
June 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@joncaramanica.bsky.social is the absolute type specimen of Gen X, nerding out over Caramicrons of difference in drill beats. Check out Wirecutter's pick for song of the summer:
Video: Is ‘Get Jiggy’ This Year’s Song of the Summer?
In his latest driver’s-seat review, our critic Jon Caramanica makes a case for a new, vintage-feeling rap track as a possible song of the summer.
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
a nice dinner of creatine, bcaas, magnesium l-threonate, sodium bicarbonate, beet root powder, circuminoids, fish oil, ibuprofen, epsom salt, and spinach
May 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Vitamin E - my new dating app exclusively for people with class E driver's licenses. There's nothing quite like hooking up on a non-commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 26,000 pounds or less.
May 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
beautiful essay by the fabulous @lisawellswriter.bsky.social on her @dseuss.bsky.social approved second collection, The Fire Passage
Lisa Wells on The Fire Passage
Poets and translators on their work.
poetrysociety.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
as your head hits

the pillow, you remember there's

ripe avocados

#improvingsituation
April 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
eating a peach

filled with worms

at Bible camp

#worseningsituation
April 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM