This brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.

More: Another poet wrote a ms & we went over it word by word & changed a lot (half? more? not sure) to my words—somewhere between super-charged editing & actual collaborating.

There are a million other things you can do! I’m looking forward to reading responses!

A friend read a series poem of mine & wrote some poems in direct response. A friend & I wrote poems back & forth, reading each other’s poems before writing our next. A friend & I wrote every day for a month, but w no rules regarding direct response or timing, who sent first.

I love these so much

This is all very funny and also sad and furthermore horrible—could have bought real cheese—

Gonna plant a good spring garden. Would rather support my local organic farms, but who will harvest & etc? This year, I plant.

Yes. & how they are informed, enthused, & yet utterly lacking in comprehension.
& how women frequently comply, often by force, & also, oddly, without understanding consequences.
Makes me think, in a way, of a recasting of A Modest Proposal. But not “solving” anything.
Still thinking. So much here.

I want to say some things about this story, but I cannot come up with words very well right now, having just finished this…experience. “Most fucked up story” seems good.