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The Everyday War

A prose poem slash diary entry slash anti-war rant with extensive hyperbole, some confessional bits, some contrived bits, and very little structure

11 hrs ago •

A very condensed, stylized to the point of fiction, barely chronological account of the week I spent in NYC

May 1

Too many pronouns in this poem like so many feet just to carry the thought that we humans are mere common nouns pretending to be proper nouns

Mar 30 •

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What it Takes to Be the Non

Mar 9, 2023 • Yann Rousselot

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CC#5: Florida Man Ignores Warning and is Struck and Killed by Train

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Time and Tide Wait for No Man

Aug 20, 2023 • Yann Rousselot

CC#9: That Which Keeps On Giving

Jan 23, 2023 • Yann Rousselot

CC#10: Florida Man has Friend Mail Him Rattlesnake in a Coffee Can

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CC#20: Florida Man Films Himself Driving Around Drunk and High at 3AM With an Endangered Owl

The headline had nothing to do with love but the poem somehow ended up being all about it

Mar 20 •

Fragments spun from bitter seeds, cotton sheets, ego death, heaving sobs

You know the drill, poems written by a lazy man

Mar 11 •

A note from your favourite dystopian or at least misanthropic poet

Pragmatic stuff

Feb 26 •

Fragments that could be poems spun from bird feed, firewood, nocturnal blue light, medical waste

Deconstructed and reconstructed journal material pared down into very tight spaces

Feb 19 •

Fragments that could be poems spun from table scraps, shrapnel, worries, pocket lint

Journal entries meet erasure poetry crossed with some GIFs and a random photo and I call it "la cohérence" and there you have it

Feb 3 •

CC#6: Threat Level

A heartfelt poem disguised as relationship advice disguised as a long-winded complaint

Jan 23 •

[untitled] unknowable variable

Jan 10 •

CC#1: Florida Man Gets into Brick-Throwing Fight with Identical Twin Brother

This particular headline stood out to me as the perfect metaphor for self-harm...

Dec 18, 2023 •

[untitled] morning rant from a forgotten day at the office ten years ago

My hate/hate relationship with waking up early exemplified in this poem/open letter to Kronos the God of Time written circa 2012

Dec 8, 2023 •

An Ominous Mistake

An Ominous Mistake

disreputable poetry & prose from the front lines of dystopia

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