Anselm Berrigan
wystandoll.bsky.social
Anselm Berrigan
@wystandoll.bsky.social
poet
the first track on my new album will be titled Why John Candy Makes Me Cry
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
as far as I can tell the GOP healthcare plan is health exists to be undermined and care is the enemy, but it all actually translates as fuck you
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I might have an apology fetish
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The Stone Temple Pilots, they're elegant bachelors
They're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?
I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing
Nothing more than me
🎶Get a haircut and get a real job
Clean your act up and don't be a slob
Get it together like your big brother Bob
Why don't you, get a haircut and get a real job?🎶
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
free memorial event for Alice (Mom) Notley happening tomorrow eve. Six months from the date of her death. Which also means we just got the French tax bill. So the memorial's free, but if anyone brings a big bag of money to lend us for a spell, that's cool

www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
At Night the States: a Memorial Celebration for Alice Notley
This will be a gathering to read perform and listen to works by and with and about Alice Notley, who passed away this past spring in Paris. Notley said St. Mark's Church was where she imagined her wor...
www.poetryproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
blame, bullshit, cruelty, & harm - that's how you run a country
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
it's probably a good idea to read the long reports about the unqualified vindictive sycophants running the various cabinets and agencies, but we also already knew these people were unqualified vindictive sycophants & one cannot partaketh in the loop for all eternity
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Anselm Berrigan
Rick Reuschel, 1979 #Cubs

#Baseball
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I like it here because it takes less than a minute per day to figure out exactly how nuts things are
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'll take a 50 second mortgage instead
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
she loved the holes in his brain, the worms that made them, the dumping of the bear in the park, the swim in the sewage, the abdication of sanity, the rejection of science, the bend of his knee to the living orange
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Anselm Berrigan
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Anselm Berrigan
52 years ago
The New York Dolls performing "Looking For a Kiss" at The Old Grey Whistle Test, November 1973

#punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #newyorkdolls #history #punkrockhistory
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
is there anyone in the cabinet who doesn't iron their face when they wake up?
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I will never understand Linked In
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
mom would have been 80 today, so Eddie and I are going to go see the new predator movie
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
here's the video recording of me and Cedar reading last week at the poetry project in nyc, with intros by Mirene Arsanios

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7Z...
Anselm Berrigan + Cedar Sigo
YouTube video by The Poetry Project
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
why leave an airport?
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
coming back from cincinnati later tonight and if a million motherfuckers aren't out of nyc by then there's gonna be heck to pay
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Anselm Berrigan
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
one million people leaving nyc because mamdani gets elected would be terrific for the city
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Had I known my ceramic hip setting off the metal detector at LaGuardia meant I’d have to take off my arm sling and wait a good while for a pat down I’d have left my hip in Ridgewood
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
nah
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Saying max muncy and babe ruth are tied with 15 hrs in the post season- without remembering to say ruth hit all of his in World Series games is par for these announcers
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM