30 days of prompts: day 6

& recommendations & tweets

Happy Saturday, all!

I have a busy weekend so I’ll keep today’s newsletter quick.

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Day 6: Prompt

Write a poem about getting older.

Here are some great examples:

• To Be Honest, Not At All Like Fine Wine, Donna Vorreyer

• The Art of Aging, Marie Gauthier

• Menopause, C. Prudence Arceneaux

• After Many Springs, Langston Hughes

• As for the Heart, Erin Belieu

• Song of Myself, 45, Walt Whitman

• Indigo, Ellen Bass

• The Barmecides, Jane Zwart

• The New Domesticity, Nancy Reddy

& one of my own:

• Adulthood begins with my fist—

& read:

• Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

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Recommendations:

• This is a nice wash-off face mask

• This is the best moisturizer for dry skin

• This got excellent reviews so I’m trying it

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Tweets:

Redwall Abbey Head Baker @JuliaFtacek

Baby radfems have been having a field day with the idea of forcing all "men" to have vasectomies, so a reminder that compulsory sterilization on men IS actually a thing that has happened in the US, it tends to affect vulnerable populations the most, and it's fucking horrifying.

May 6th 2022

3,648 Retweets22,822 Likes

sarah lugor! @sarahlugor

i get so envious when people are like “my parents forced me to play piano” like that’s very valid but at least now u have a cool party trick!! my parents played a reverse uno card and made me parent them… i can’t just therapize people as a party trick

May 6th 2022

17,222 Retweets172,076 Likes

Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter

Cis queers telling transgender people they'll come for LGBTQ rights next

May 5th 2022

2,694 Retweets26,579 Likes

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See you tomorrow!

-Despy Boutris

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