30 days of prompts: day 26

& shopping guide, quotations, tweets, etc.

Happy Friday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• The prompt

• Lil shopping guide

• Quotations

• Tweets

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Prompt: Day 26

Use another poet’s line as your first line in a poem. (With credit)

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It’s almost June. Be gay & proud. I’ve designed so many fun shirts.

You’ve heard of I ♥ NY—now get ready for:

• I ♥ BEING GAY

• I ♥ TRANS PEOPLE

• I ♥ HOT GIRLS

& here’s a lil shopping guide:

• For the high femme who wants girls to know she’s gay¹

• For the self-described dyke

• For the poet

• For the ally

• For the bookworm

• For the newly out bisexual

• For the athlete

• For the But I’m a Cheerleader fan

• For the video gamer

• For the Coke lover

• For the vintage lover

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Quotations:

I should have known

when he called me “cathedral”

I was only a place

for sacrifices

-Alexis Bates

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I move my body through surf & imagine foam teeth

dissolve me—

this, my most precious spell. Death is a blue burglar

but I am vigilant.

I address the monster inside me, which is animal

& male.

-John Allen Taylor

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The air thick & humid

settles like moss at your throat—

-John Allen Taylor

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I’m not versed in these verses,

their grist and tumble.

-Grace Arenas

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Someone told me once that we are all cadavers,

or was it flowers

that have yet to bloom.

-Anthony Borruso

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This business of being

in a body is so tiresome.

-Anthony Borruso

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What faith do you consider yourself to be?

I have no faith in anything but the coyote’s howl.

-Anthony Borruso

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I kept

kisses on the threshold

of my lips. I was a birch branch

teetering in wind.

Then winter came to crust

the streets. Trees slouched.

The sun turned peach.

-Anthony Borruso

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To have two mouths, one for singing

and one for screaming bloody murder—

this is what the poet strives for.

-Anthony Borruso

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Sound of a match

flickering.

Sound of a forest

burned down—that

kind of quiet.

-Anthony Borruso

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I tried so hard

to find myself in the spines of the men

who wronged me.

-Tariq Luthun

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I’ve left so many

times — and so much — to find

what might come of flinging

oneself into thirst; to drown

in every possibility, and

learn — if it’s possible —

to emerge unscathed.

-Tariq Luthun

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Still, I’ve never known

a law to rewind a bullet

or a bomb, to unwind

a spine too busy wrapped

around Grief.

-Tariq Luthun

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And I pray

for everything

that has not tried

to kill me; feeling

blessed, I pray

for everything

that has tried

and failed. I pray

for everything.

-Tariq Luthun

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Tweets:

fun facts with lulu @FunFactsLulu

The problem with "everyone has [mental illness symptom] sometimes" or "everyone's a little [neurodivergence]" is that it makes nondisabled neurotypicals think they have a point of reference for these feelings. They don't. They don't have a clue how we experience the world.

Stop Donating to BLM National and Shaun King! @WrittenByHanna

its also important when talking about incels not to talk about them as simply boys and men who simply can’t get bitches bc they’re “ugly” or wtf ever. its an inherently violent movement that uses their supposed non desirability as a way to pledge their allegiance to whiteness

New York Yankees @Yankees

Kevin ☕️🎶 @KevinSixx13

Nothing says ban assault rifles like cops being scared of the shooter who has one.

Sid @sidsidtoosid

teachers r making 30k a year & u want them to be the avengers too

Cliff 🦖 Jerrison @pervocracy

I feel like the facts still aren't out on the Uvalde police response but one thing that seems really clear and not for the first time is that cops in fear for their lives act in the exact opposite manner from cops "in fear for their lives"

Chaos Bride Kyelaag @Monstrous_Fest

Folks are talking about police a bunch, and that's something I might actually be able to provide context for. Police are never, and will never be, required to endanger themselves in any way for any reason. This has been litigated thoroughly.

Cody Johnston @drmistercody

The "we need schools to have one door" thing broke me.

jordan @JordanUhl

losing my fucking mind

Nolan🌹🕊🇵🇸 @VoidOfRoses

I’m not joking when I say one of the more inspiring tweets I’ve ever seen was tweeted by a man w/ an @ of “paradoomer” and a display name of “tank enjoyer” while most likely being higher than Mt. McKinley at 5 pm on a Friday

𝒓 𝒐 𝒂 𝒃 𝒐 𝒂 @roacarriola

my toll enforcement invoice came in the mail and honestly they took the cutest picture of us im crying

Read Wobblies and Zapatistas @JoshuaPotash

It’s not that cops are bad at their jobs, it’s that their job isn’t to protect you.

Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻 @PlanetofFinks

The thing about having "guns" as your hobby, is that if my hobby had turned into the number one reason of death for children, I would just find another hobby.

bring on the dancing horses @inthefade

screenshot for posterity

beast?!how dare you? @rich_white_lady

Joe Garcia dying of a broken heart after his wife was killed protecting her students, and subsequently orphaning their 4 young children, is just about the saddest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. I’m really so shaken. I hope this children have community and support around them

sila puhl @c_lapuhl

(uber driver doing his job joe biden style) and how will you be getting to your destination

trash jones @jzux

ask not what your country can do for you. they literally won’t do it

Eric Stanley @Eric_A_Stanley

The police waited three hours before entering the bathroom at Pulse where the shooter was executing people. This is always the story.

matt @mattxiv

just learned that dildos are more regulated in texas than guns are

roxane gay @rgay

Every single cop who stayed outside like cowards while teachers protected their students should resign immediately. They should live the rest of their lives in abject shame. What is the purpose of police if they won’t do their jobs? I know the answer. I KNOW! But Jesus Christ.

Rachel McCartney @RachelMComedy

Aw yeah, scold the powerless and paywall it! You're helping https://t.co/wMGjpd2s8K

Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions

This is your fault. It is all our faults, @ChristineEmba writes. https://t.co/PcMZG4XWxb

Brandon Canning @CanningBrandon

This you? https://t.co/oyel2phMIj

Chris Evans @ChrisEvans

FUCKING ENOUGH!!!!

jordan @jordan_stratton

Oh good, the leader of the free world is begging me to enact change

Lisa Dreher @lisa_dreher97

roxane gay @rgay

The alleged good men with guns waited for men with bigger guns while the gunman had an hour to murder children. Never let Republicans fall back on the notion that there’s a hero out there to save us. https://t.co/LnFVdhZWgE

The Associated Press @AP

Onlookers urged police to charge into the Texas grade school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, a witness says. The rampage lasted upwards of 40 minutes, ending when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. https://t.co/Q11bo5eR6j

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