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J-T Kelly

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poet - Chapbooks: https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-from-aboveground-press-more-of-how.html https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly - Poems: http://www.ucityreview.com/30_Kelly_JT.html

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J-T Kelly

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November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM

J-T Kelly

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There are four types of guys online, no exceptions

November 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM

J-T Kelly

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Poem

We Do

Breakfast time is the perfect time for eggs and coffee
and seeing if today you are up to the task.
While I didn't want to is generally inadmissible,
we do go to a lot of trouble.
I like to make lists and I lie. This is how
the tree trimmers who rescheduled for Thursday came up in our conversation about money.
If only Harry were here. He loves eggs.
And then I wouldn't have to. I could finally
pay attention. I feel like
the beetles are winning the species attrition races.
And that maybe population growth has more to do with the failure of institutions than we think.
Not too many people but too fast
for the good old boy networks to keep up.
And nobody else was in place.
But how can you pay attention to things like that.
When you don't want to.

November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM

J-T Kelly

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Perfect album that came out when I was sixteen.

November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM

J-T Kelly

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Poem #smallpoemsunday

Poem

I slept funny.
Now everyone's laughing.

November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM

J-T Kelly

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Poem

sacrament

taste, like the soul,
has no position

you can’t get ahead of it

one day you like coffee
one day you like sin

you can wash the body
so let’s do that

November 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM

J-T Kelly

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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM

J-T Kelly

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I'm pretty sure this is the first time in my life I've had business cards made. Not bad, I think!

November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM

J-T Kelly

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1. For the first time in my life I opened a spoiled container of sour cream.
2. (New container) I just whisked sour cream into my scrambled eggs. Hope it's good!
3. This grinder is so good for coarse ground pepper I've been refilling it with pepper corns.

November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM

J-T Kelly

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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender

November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM

J-T Kelly

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Two Weeks Notice #poetry

Two Weeks Notice

The snow packed dangerously well.
I was finagling two pairs of sodden mittens
on top of the radiator while Dad, sure
as a nurse, stitched the gash above your eye,
blood and melting ice dripping softly
for several silent masculine minutes.

Through the window in your classroom door
I saw that your shiner was the same
smudged black as the heel of your left
hand, dragged through a morning of cursive.
Beyond you, the window to the field,
patchy with snow and soggy wilted grass.

November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM

J-T Kelly

@j-tkelly.bsky.social

I used to look at typewriter art, like below. I think that is why I am so responsive to your work now. I was just telling my wife how much I like your book, which I have.

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