Jonathan B. Aibel
@jbaibel.bsky.social
Member of PoetWorks in Boston area, poet, father, cat dad, former software engineer, SQA specialist.
There's money for new Gulfstreams in the government, but not for SNAP.
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
There's money for new Gulfstreams in the government, but not for SNAP.
Art at JFK International Airport.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Art at JFK International Airport.
So long, Tom, I thought you was that bomb...
Listened a lit in High School, learned the lyrics.
Thank you, Tom Lehrer
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Listened a lit in High School, learned the lyrics.
Thank you, Tom Lehrer
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One of my favorite musicians and I heard one of his songs just yesterday.
(Gift article)
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(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So long, Tom, I thought you was that bomb...
Listened a lit in High School, learned the lyrics.
Thank you, Tom Lehrer
bsky.app/profile/scal...
Listened a lit in High School, learned the lyrics.
Thank you, Tom Lehrer
bsky.app/profile/scal...
New Mexico in bloom
July 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New Mexico in bloom
... the pleasure of realizing that a poem that was accepted last fall was actually published.
In the UK, too. Thank you Green Ink Poetry for taking "Box of Holding"
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In the UK, too. Thank you Green Ink Poetry for taking "Box of Holding"
www.greeninkpoetry.co.uk/poetry-submi...
Jonathan B. Aibel: “Box of Holding” — Green Ink Poetry
Ocean-tumbled misted quartz, micaceous granite, glitters, collect, several and many, rocks, shells, shepherded treasures, false angel wing, blue mussel, dogwinkle, each wrapped in tissue, co...
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July 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
... the pleasure of realizing that a poem that was accepted last fall was actually published.
In the UK, too. Thank you Green Ink Poetry for taking "Box of Holding"
www.greeninkpoetry.co.uk/poetry-submi...
In the UK, too. Thank you Green Ink Poetry for taking "Box of Holding"
www.greeninkpoetry.co.uk/poetry-submi...
What I am reading:
oh my soul, ripening in God's alphabet...
Just amazing.
oh my soul, ripening in God's alphabet...
Just amazing.
June 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What I am reading:
oh my soul, ripening in God's alphabet...
Just amazing.
oh my soul, ripening in God's alphabet...
Just amazing.
"Some people do go both ways" -- gotta love Boston.
June 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"Some people do go both ways" -- gotta love Boston.
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“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”
June 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”
Reposted by Jonathan B. Aibel
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Brandeis
—Louis Brandeis
June 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Brandeis
—Louis Brandeis
Lonely bit of grass in a New Mexican sidewalk.
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lonely bit of grass in a New Mexican sidewalk.
Gulf Stream Literary Magazine is out -- with one of my poems: "Anti-Elegy". Great job by the editors!
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Anti-Elegy
by Jonathan Aibel you HURT me by Shelbey Leco Anti-Elegy Beyond the scrim, do the deadremember? If so, let her remember some other child,the one she wanted, a girl, too good to writeon walls,…
gulfstreamlitmag.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Gulf Stream Literary Magazine is out -- with one of my poems: "Anti-Elegy". Great job by the editors!
gulfstreamlitmag.com/2025/05/03/a...
gulfstreamlitmag.com/2025/05/03/a...
And thanks to Medicine and Meaning for publishing my poem "Ported" medicineandmeaning.uams.edu/ported/
Ported | UAMS Medicine and Meaning
The hole in my chest, better than a daily pierce, my three-headed dock for tubes.
medicineandmeaning.uams.edu
April 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
And thanks to Medicine and Meaning for publishing my poem "Ported" medicineandmeaning.uams.edu/ported/
MacGuffin 40.2 is out! Grateful to the editors for selecting "Melancholia" and "Self-Portrait with a Cup of Water".
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April 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
MacGuffin 40.2 is out! Grateful to the editors for selecting "Melancholia" and "Self-Portrait with a Cup of Water".
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Stand in morning light,
stand for teachers, for firemen,
for tax collectors,
for those least loved,
formed in the holy image,
the different, crooked,
neurodivergent, gender
unsure, scared, all of us
imperfect creatures.
Congress in streets,
speak for the laws
that set us free.
stand for teachers, for firemen,
for tax collectors,
for those least loved,
formed in the holy image,
the different, crooked,
neurodivergent, gender
unsure, scared, all of us
imperfect creatures.
Congress in streets,
speak for the laws
that set us free.
April 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Stand in morning light,
stand for teachers, for firemen,
for tax collectors,
for those least loved,
formed in the holy image,
the different, crooked,
neurodivergent, gender
unsure, scared, all of us
imperfect creatures.
Congress in streets,
speak for the laws
that set us free.
stand for teachers, for firemen,
for tax collectors,
for those least loved,
formed in the holy image,
the different, crooked,
neurodivergent, gender
unsure, scared, all of us
imperfect creatures.
Congress in streets,
speak for the laws
that set us free.
Reposted by Jonathan B. Aibel
Last Thursday, at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop -- reading by Greg Delanty.
March 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Last Thursday, at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop -- reading by Greg Delanty.
Four years to the day from my stem-cell transplant. Going strong.
A day with no shield,
the bags are deployed,
wrap me in bubble-wrap,
A day with no shield,
the bags are deployed,
wrap me in bubble-wrap,
March 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Four years to the day from my stem-cell transplant. Going strong.
A day with no shield,
the bags are deployed,
wrap me in bubble-wrap,
A day with no shield,
the bags are deployed,
wrap me in bubble-wrap,
Reposted by Jonathan B. Aibel
Our stock market is crashing.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
March 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Our stock market is crashing.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
Dinner at Travelers Books, Union, CT. Decent food, and used books to take home.
March 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Dinner at Travelers Books, Union, CT. Decent food, and used books to take home.
Reposted by Jonathan B. Aibel
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
