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Consequence makes meaning Forges virgin norms Consequence makes action & so the ego forms Awareness is to freedom As freedom is to choice Choice is to laughter As laughter is to voice My laughter, my ...

January 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM

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Read this week’s poem “Consequences” here:

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Consequences

A smile and a veil won't cut it A knowing look Shot over the shoulder of the eldest child Is worth the last desperate backwards-falling shotgun blast that it is Not enough Like all the world contained...

December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Read this week’s poem “Talk” here:

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Talk

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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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My Supernatural

The snow began to fall Backwards in time And I Had a list Names of the friendly My supernatural Do they know it? Do they know they get me high? I know This This is what I found When out the door I bou...

Full of blood Sight unseen I wait to sneak attack you Attach to you Hopefully From beneath a crack in the hardwood I wait Under the scuffed and carefree shoes Of the dancers The forgetters Seeming lik...

December 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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This week’s poem, entitled “Blood”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/blood

Blood

December 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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A new song, for you, about an unexpected gift from a person near the tragic end of their life:

open.spotify.com/track/6qi06B...

Pink Volleyball

I am old Like the pen I flow in and out of time Like the pen Love is time bent* Like the pen Synthetic synthesization of soluble synapses Is what drives me I don't reach toward the light I am the ligh...

December 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM

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This week’s poem:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/word-light...

Word Light Me

Kentucky - Musical Houseboat Tour of the Rideau Canal

November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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Today marks the release of my first tour documentary! You can watch the 45 minute film here on my YouTube channel:

youtu.be/hVBd1Nzx8xc?...

YouTube video by I Am Kentucky

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November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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This week’s poem is called “Force Forces”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/force-forces

Force Forces

I want to organize Force forces to capitulate I want to see Flower, Dinosaur, and Kitty-Kat Commanding from the top of Heaven's Gate I want sweet deriders to hide inside from us Scholastic Zen give up...

November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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My weekly poem (from Saturday), entitled “November”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/goodnight-...

Goodnight for Tonight

or "The 11th Hour"

I went to bed satisfied Rare In my sleep I had a dream Two boys 11 and 10 Their Father gone Mother dying The time left was for important questions only For some reason They needed me Mother acquiesced...

November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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This week’s poem, on Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/iamkentu...

10 and 11

October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM

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New song out today - Born American

open.spotify.com/track/1Cd149...

Spotify – Web Player

Prayers for my daughters Prayers for my daughters Fathers without sin Make Girls without Fathers Baptize the water Baptize the water When Fathers invent everything Dry go the Daughters Lambs to the sl...

October 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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October 20th, 2025

October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM

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This week’s poem on Substack:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/my-daughters

My Daughters

For the past five weeks, I’ve been writing an epic in instalments.

October 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Coming soon……

October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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Here is this week’s poem, entitled “Perfect Composure”

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/perfect-co...

Perfect Composure

October 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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A song I released September 8th, in honour of a young man in our town, Archer. May he live forever now:

open.spotify.com/track/33ufpC...

#archer #thearcher #thearchers

The Archer

September 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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With the support of Sarah and Nathan, Archer’s parents, and in accordance with their wishes, we released a new song this morning called The Archer that is dedicated to their beautiful and eternal son. I wrote and recorded the song so that he will live forever in it:

open.spotify.com/album/4NPoav...

The Archer

I Haven't Had Anything Good To Eat

September 8, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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This week’s Substack post, entitled “I Haven’t Had Anything Good To Eat”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/i-havent-h...

I woke up very hungry and I suddenly realized it had been a long time since I had anything good to eat.

Second Chance Music (Live)

August 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM

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Just dropped a live version of my debut album, Second Chance Music. Unedited, no auto-tune, no fixing. Recorded by Ken Friesen on May 25, 2025 at the historic Almonte Old Town Hall in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Here’s the link to Spotify:

open.spotify.com/album/0x7kRH...

Kentucky · Album · 2025 · 17 songs

On her legs are my constellations all my ways home Maybe there was more than one way home there is i know only one home She is my home and my way home How can that be? I'm too lucky and I don't deserv...

August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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This week’s poem on Substack:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/constellat...

Constellations