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John Luke Byrne
@byrninlove.bsky.social
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Poet, toxic optimist, pessimistic tendencies
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December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Movie theaters forever!!
Three frames from Amelie at the cinema. Top: Amelie seated in the cinema facing the camera but looking up in wonder at the screen, she is clearly near the front of the theater, as you can see many people seated in the rows behind her. There is a caption of the narrator speaking, “Some Friday evenings, Amelie goes to the cinema.” Middle: same image as top, only now Amelie is looking into the camera, speaking directly to the viewer: “I like turning around and looking at people’s faces in the dark.” Bottom: Amelie turning around and looking at people’s faces in the dark.
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Her fits are peak. She did what she did and they deserved it
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Is this a gratuitous pic of us in the matching pajamas she bought us, taken by my boyfriend’s mom? Yes
Four people in the living room with matching plaid pajamas
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Is this anything?
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Sobbing
Screenshot from impossible archetype submission page that says “impossible archetype was an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry. Thanks for ten wonderful years.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Werewolf pope!! Werewolf pope!!
August 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Me showing up to the performative male contest
August 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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me when radio towers
August 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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You can’t make me hate her! It’s stupid and bad and I won’t give it up
August 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Normal temp, this is fine
June 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Someday it’ll grow bigger than my living room and these gif invitations will be more widely distributed
June 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Were they silent or were they silenced
June 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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In honor of @dapowell.bsky.social’s birthday, here are two poems:

one from his little chapbook of poems circling our favorite movie, and one from the anthology he sent me for my birthday.

Happy birthday to the poets’ poet!! We love you get up!!
May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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If you see this post, find a pic of you from five years ago and post it.

From roomie and me on a covid lockdown photo walk
Pic of me out of focus behind some wisteria
May 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Catherine Martin from Silence of the Lambs driving in her car and singing along to American Girl by tom petty and the heartbreakers
May 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Who is she
Zoomed in and cropped on the seagull in the background of the picture of the white smoke that signals a new pope has been selected
May 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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And here I will insert my We’re All Going to the World’s Fair poem (bc it’s TV Glows big sister) which is in the latest issue of Call Me [Brackets] (tho the formatting was wonky so I put the original here)
Text from my poem “[I swear someday soon, I am just gonna disappear, and you won’t have any idea what happened to me.]” for the full text visit https://callmebrackets.net/call-me-crazy/
May 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Is now a good time to plug this poem of mine which just came out today
Image of Janet Leigh screaming in the shower scene from psycho, in front of a red background with woods and twelve cabins. The top says “john Luke Byrne” and below are the titles of the two poems included in this issue: [oh we have twelve vacancies. Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies.] and [I swear someday soon, I am just gonna disappear, and you won’t have any idea what happened to me.] A photo of the poem [oh we have twelve vacancies. Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies.] the issue of the magazine can be found at this address https://callmebrackets.net/call-me-crazy/ however if you need a text file to read it please feel free to dm me and I would be happy to send it over
May 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Tiffany Pollard “Beyoncé??” Meme except it says “SYDNEY SWEENEY??”
April 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Alyssa Edwards—with a gun!
April 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Don’t be fooled, I love two star movies
Letter boxes last four: The House That Jack Built (four stars); Without Name (two and a half stars); Bloody Axe Wound (three and a half stars); and Man From Earth: Holocene (two stars)
March 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Vibes of said poems
Tony Perkins and John Gavin square off in the doorway of a cabin at the Bates Motel in Psycho (1960) Anna Cobb as Casey in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, she’s in her bedroom screaming
March 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Vibes of the poem I’ve been working on
Mitch Brenner from The Birds in his cozy sweater in the diner, his mother can be seen entering in the background The lovebirds in a cage in The Birds, they’re swaying on their perch in the passenger seat of Melanie’s car Annie Hayworth and Melanie Daniels discuss Mitch Brenner over cigarettes in front of Annie’s house. Melanie wears a big fur coat and Annie has dirt on her face A man lighting a cigar outside his car, standing just over a puddle of gasoline
March 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Vibes of the poem I’m working on
Casey in her bedroom from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair Casey dragging a stick along a chain link fence in winter from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair Casey in bed, grinning, in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair Casey with her face painted green, holding up the lemur’s eye from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
March 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM