David M. Perkins
@dmperkins.bsky.social
Poet. NEW: IN FROM FOREVER
Now available: POST-MODERN BLUES
and I MAY OR MAY NOT LOVE YOU
from icecubepress.com
Bertrand Russell/Oscar Wilde Socialist - Owned by cats.
https://bit.ly/DMPerkins
Now available: POST-MODERN BLUES
and I MAY OR MAY NOT LOVE YOU
from icecubepress.com
Bertrand Russell/Oscar Wilde Socialist - Owned by cats.
https://bit.ly/DMPerkins
Today: Oscar Wilde's birthday. "The Last Days of Sebastian Melmoth" from my 1st collection, I MAY OR MAY NOT LOVE YOU, originally published in THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW, reprinted in WHEN THE BLUEBIRD SANG: An Oscar Wilde Journal.
#Poetry
#Poetry
October 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Today: Oscar Wilde's birthday. "The Last Days of Sebastian Melmoth" from my 1st collection, I MAY OR MAY NOT LOVE YOU, originally published in THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW, reprinted in WHEN THE BLUEBIRD SANG: An Oscar Wilde Journal.
#Poetry
#Poetry
My poem, "Dot," has been published in PROSETRICS: THE LITERARY MAGAZINE out of Amsterdam. The theme was "whelve," which means, "to turn (as a dish or vessel) upside down usually to cover something."
September 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My poem, "Dot," has been published in PROSETRICS: THE LITERARY MAGAZINE out of Amsterdam. The theme was "whelve," which means, "to turn (as a dish or vessel) upside down usually to cover something."
After 7+ weeks in hospital incarceration, I'm finally going home to see Wystan, who will not give a fig, I suspect. But I'm looking forward to seeing him anyway.
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
After 7+ weeks in hospital incarceration, I'm finally going home to see Wystan, who will not give a fig, I suspect. But I'm looking forward to seeing him anyway.
Children reading. Here's my poem in the new annual OZIANA 2024 volume about just that. www.lulu.com/shop/dj-tyre...
February 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Children reading. Here's my poem in the new annual OZIANA 2024 volume about just that. www.lulu.com/shop/dj-tyre...
Readers/Writers, how many of you spent your childhood with the OZ books? I did. When the International OZ club open-called for works in their 2024 annual OZIANA, I had this poem in my files, and they chose it as the concluding work. "Follow the Yellow Brick Road..."
February 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Readers/Writers, how many of you spent your childhood with the OZ books? I did. When the International OZ club open-called for works in their 2024 annual OZIANA, I had this poem in my files, and they chose it as the concluding work. "Follow the Yellow Brick Road..."
Here is the Dystopia being advertised on Elon Musk's [X-]Twitter. George Orwell warned us in '1984.' Books, novels as money-making commodities, not Art. What hath Artificial Intelligence wrought?
#booksky
#booksky
February 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here is the Dystopia being advertised on Elon Musk's [X-]Twitter. George Orwell warned us in '1984.' Books, novels as money-making commodities, not Art. What hath Artificial Intelligence wrought?
#booksky
#booksky
Sometimes shapes say as much as words.
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sometimes shapes say as much as words.
It's Sunday morning ...
February 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's Sunday morning ...
I think the most wrenching discovery that my years on "X" gave me is just how many Americans are not only heartless and soulless, but how many are deliberately cruel and vicious -- including our so-called "leaders." Bone-chilling.
January 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I think the most wrenching discovery that my years on "X" gave me is just how many Americans are not only heartless and soulless, but how many are deliberately cruel and vicious -- including our so-called "leaders." Bone-chilling.
Musk threw a Nazi salute to the Trump crowd at the DC Arena.
"Seig Heil, mein führer?"
"Seig Heil, mein führer?"
January 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Musk threw a Nazi salute to the Trump crowd at the DC Arena.
"Seig Heil, mein führer?"
"Seig Heil, mein führer?"
Just received notice that the man who brought my books into being has died. In light of that and in the times we are living, that last stanza of a poem I dedicated to him in my first collection hit me hard ... the world is a lesser place for me now.
January 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Just received notice that the man who brought my books into being has died. In light of that and in the times we are living, that last stanza of a poem I dedicated to him in my first collection hit me hard ... the world is a lesser place for me now.
Authors, musicians, actors, artists, photographers, and other creatives, take notice ...
January 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Authors, musicians, actors, artists, photographers, and other creatives, take notice ...
From an earlier, more hopeful New Year's wish ... but we can still dream?
January 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
From an earlier, more hopeful New Year's wish ... but we can still dream?
Are we all sufficiently prepared for the upcoming Musk/Trump Administration?
December 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Are we all sufficiently prepared for the upcoming Musk/Trump Administration?
Oscar in "The Soul of Man Under Socialism."
December 16, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Oscar in "The Soul of Man Under Socialism."
Emily Dickinson's birthday today. One of my prized possessions, a gift, the massive 2-volume Belknap-Harvard Manuscript Books containing photographs of every poem, and notes in her handwriting.
December 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Emily Dickinson's birthday today. One of my prized possessions, a gift, the massive 2-volume Belknap-Harvard Manuscript Books containing photographs of every poem, and notes in her handwriting.
All you really need to know ...
December 9, 2024 at 7:50 PM
All you really need to know ...
I think not. Vidal explained it back in 1975 ... and the rest of us have finally caught on. Good luck. You're going to need it.
December 5, 2024 at 5:22 AM
I think not. Vidal explained it back in 1975 ... and the rest of us have finally caught on. Good luck. You're going to need it.
World AIDS Day. In the midst of all that's going on, let’s not forget those who should still be with us.
December 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
World AIDS Day. In the midst of all that's going on, let’s not forget those who should still be with us.
It's Sunday morning...
December 1, 2024 at 6:17 PM
It's Sunday morning...
She *is* sweet, but her brother Wystan is a one-cat-wrecking-ball, and why the study door is closed.
November 28, 2024 at 9:59 PM
She *is* sweet, but her brother Wystan is a one-cat-wrecking-ball, and why the study door is closed.
My little girl, Bette, helping me out in the study before dinner.
November 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
My little girl, Bette, helping me out in the study before dinner.