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Tommy Welty
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All shall be silly, and all shall be silly, and all manner of thing shall be silly.

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First poetry acceptance of the year! I will be reading at a performance of Hayden’s Seven Last Words on Good Friday at the coolest bookstore in San Diego. I’ll actually be reading the first poem I ever saw published at a now defunct and sorely missed magazine [RIP The Curator]
March 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Tommy-coded characters
Because I never wear pants Because I only wear vests Totoro Dad vibes
February 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Very cool.
January 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Watching the Boss Baby TV Sequel instead, so same difference.
Donald Trump is a big baby and America is his dirty diaper.
January 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Probably should have taken a family photo, you all look lovely. This nearly counts. My family’s most sacred tradition is the annual book exchange. There’s specific rules for the exchange we don’t remember and so we make up our own rules. Who knows what rules we’ll follow in 2025. Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Merry Christmas!
The Rose I Have in Mind Carrying a fold up, prelit authentic looking tree through a crowd of buskers, a strung out Mickey Mouse, an old fashioned brass band playing carols, hooting and tooting Lo How a Rose E’re Blooming, I pray: Tender stem of Jesse’s lineage, take root in our wintry hearts, break through with glorious splendor, like the old poets said, the concrete and development, the cold of winter and half-gone nights. Alyssa points Atticus to our window with its fold up, prelit, authentic looking tree, “That one is ours.” It’s a small light dispelling the darkness everywhere. Tender stem, true man yet very God, From sin, from death, save us And lighten every load.
December 25, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Real pleased to have a new poem out in the world today. Thank you to the Clayjar Review for running it. Check out the full issue here: clayjar.review/issues/thril...
Desert Psalm Why are you so angry? God is laughing. God laughs. God is unimpressed but go on – God, if God wanted to, could turn all our sand to glass. But we could have so much more. We could kiss and never stop kissing. We could trace our faces, run fingers through our hair. We could kiss in creeks carved in flash floods. We could kiss spiders and geckos. We could grind dirt in our teeth, call it communion. We could hold black-throated sparrows on our wrists, feed them with a kiss, give them all our locusts. We could kiss the clouds. We could have so much more: (We could) Kiss the Son or die.
December 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Yes I’m religious. I believe in the holy trinity.
December 1, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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This is what I ended up with… music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
November 30, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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9/20
November 30, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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lol the cover didn’t post and more people liked it than the last one…
November 29, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
It’s a cosmic goose saying: “God is testing me and I have not studied” in a MS Paint font The dragon from the original Pete’s Dragon A New Yorker cartoon of three of priests. Two are smoking and having coffee in a break room and the third bathes in and says: “Back to work, boys. Those mysteries of the Trinity aren’t going to grapple with themselves.” My cat licking his balls.
November 28, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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8/20
A real groovy cover of a Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle with like circles and stuff
November 27, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookSky

#Books

#BookChallenge

7/20
November 27, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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6/20
November 26, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Buddy of mine left this old hymnal at the coffee shop for me
November 26, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#Books

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5/20

To counter balance the Narnia of it all
November 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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A friend just ten minutes ago texted, “Hey I think I should read more poetry. Any suggestions!” Heck yeah!!! Check this one out:

“Bible Study” by Tony Hoagland www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Bible Study by Tony Hoagland Who would have imagined that I would have to go a million miles away from the place where I was born to find people who would love me? And that I would go that distance and that I would find those people? In the dream JoAnne was showing me how much arm to amputate if your hand gets trapped in the gears of the machine; if you acted fast, she said, you could save everything above the wrist. You want to keep a really sharp blade close by, she said. Now I raise that hand to scratch one of those nasty little scabs on the back of my head, and we sit outside and watch the sun go down, inflamed as an appendicitis over western Illinois — which then subsides and cools into a smooth gray sea. Who knows, this might be the last good night of summer. My broken nose is forming an idea of what’s for supper. Hard to believe that death is just around the corner. What kind of idiot would think he even had a destiny? I was on the road for so long by myself, I took to reading motel Bibles just for company. Lying on the chintz bedspread before going to sleep, still feeling the motion of the car inside my body, I thought some wrongness in my self had made me that alone. And God said, You are worth more to me than one hundred sparrows. And when I read that, I wept. And God said, Whom have I blessed more than I have blessed you? And I looked at the mini bar and the bad abstract hotel art on the wall and the dark TV set watching like a deacon. And God said, Survive. And carry my perfume among the perishing.
November 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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4/20

To commemorate the anniversary of CS Lewis’ death, my favorite Narnia book when I was a weird kid.
Weird cover of Prince Caspian [the actual second book in the Chronicles of Narnia]. It’s a cartoon Italian pirate type fighting a child in medieval looking armor. There’s lightning. It’s not Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator of the Narnia books, but it is the copy I read as a wee lad.
November 22, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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I was real caught off guard by how normal life felt after the initial shock of CoVid [and each prior and subsequent crisis] and how life just keeps going. I think, perhaps, Matthew 24:36-42 was bouncing around the back of my head when I was writing?
Screen shot of Matthew 24:36-41 Revised Standard Version: “36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,[a] but the Father only. 37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left.”
November 22, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#Books

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3/20
November 22, 2024 at 5:48 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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2/20
November 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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Fox Kids never missed with the Power Rangers knockoffs
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#Books

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1/20
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Cannery Row is a hoot! A quick read. I read it at FFW. You’ll be laughing your patootie right off and then Steinbeck will drop paragraphs like this:
November 18, 2024 at 6:45 PM