30 days of prompts: day 22

& round-up

Happy Monday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• The prompt

• Housekeeping

• Quotations

• Tweets (many tweets—open this email in a new window to get to the end!)

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Day 22: Prompt

Write a poem about something that will always stick with you.

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Housekeeping:

I have a lot of books. Please buy some.

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I’ve been designing shirts.

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I made a Sappho poster & you can buy it for $9:

dbouts

A post shared by @dbouts

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I have a lot of zines for sale on the website.

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I’ve been reading The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse this morning.

Quotations:

Hetero-sex is best for the man of a serious turn of mind,

But here’s a hint, if you should fancy the other:

Turn Menophila round in bed, address her peachy behind.

And it’s easy to pretend you’re screwing her brother.

-Marcus Argentarius (tr. Fleur Adcock)

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If you see someone beautiful

hammer it out right then.

Say what you think; put your hands full

on his bollocks: be a man.

-Adaios (tr. Alistair Elliot)

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Again? New tumults in by breast?

Ah spare me, Venus! let me, let me rest!

-Horace

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Tweets:

allure @alluregaga2

what tiktok has done to the music industry is upsetting like…

AJ 🥸 @ajiswriting

Academia summed up in one photo:

river butcher 🤠 @rivbutcher

There it is: a gallon of gas costs more than the federal minimum wage

king crissle @crissles

first of all… absolutely not https://t.co/RVzC7PTvx4

sparkleboob @baysueb

*drinks dr. pepper* mmm bbq sprite

slate @PleaseBeGneiss

landlord: your income needs to be 3x rent me: can you tell my boss that

onlyhaters @HogPussy

BREAKING: Worst Person You Know Is Becoming A Social Worker

Harry Hill @veryharryhill

Saw a girl on tik tok make her hinge fun fact that she’s never been on a boat so that guys offer to take her on theirs and I just hope she’s on a boat right now

ᴿᵘᵉ 🏴‍☠️ @dox_gay

transgender marx @JUNlPER

just found out that TERF skateboarder that complained about losing to a transwomen once lost a skate competition to a 10 year old child, at some point you just need to admit you can’t shred

ashelina jolie @sulIengrl

🏴 u look better in a mask @TunnelRatDC

In addition, 44 were traffic related fatalities, 22 were heart attacks, 12 were “9/11 related illness”, 2 were “inadvertent gunfire”. Only 27 of the 576, or 4.6%, were classified as some type of assault.

Read Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell @JoshuaPotash

The missing context is that 444 of these were covid deaths. https://t.co/Jgiz3Wuuql

the selah system 🇵🇸☭ @sintonal

the john mulaney thing happened in Ohio one day after the Ohio government debated HB454, which would forcibly detransition all trans youth, with discussion of detransitioning adults as well.

Gloria. @conamorgloria

Living w/ someone who has a bookcase full of radical books & says they’re an abolitionist but doesn’t treat me w/ care is a very unsettling & depressing experience. The way you treat people in your everyday life will always say more about your politics than who you say you are.

Snarl: a journal of literature & art @JournalSnarl

Our Online Exclusive for May 2022 features the artwork of @itsdbouts. Thank you, Despy, for allowing us to publish your work! View her collages on our website at snarljournal.com/may-2022/

Leah Tigers @9BillionTigers

I understand Bill Maher may not be familiar with my superior work but it's sad to watch seedy little jerks like him ask "Why are there more trans people in California than Ohio" when I wrote an obviously marvelous + brilliant essay about U.S. trans migration patterns last year

queen quen @quenblackwell

amen.

℮oin Higgins @EoinHiggins_

Ricky Gervais has a new comedy special coming out Tuesday. Word is that Netflix sat on it for months because of how virulently transphobic it is—worse than Chappelle—but are releasing it anyway for fear of right-wing backlash.

Zinnia Jones @ZJemptv

John Mulaney is dangerous to us for the same reason as Dave Chappelle, he's offered the public a choice between the funny guy they know who makes them laugh, or disposing of trans people as valid beings with an interest in our own humanity

Layla Benson @BaelaLayla

Hi, this is real

D. Hale @hale1914

schools charging for transcripts is a scam.

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See you tomorrow—

-DB

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