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Babes and bots,  This week a tall, brown-haired student said to me that his mom used to read his fortune with tarot cards. I asked if his fortune was ever accurate and he said "no." He then asked if he could copy my response to his journal question from the board. The question: what is your passion? How can you dedicate more time to your passion? Respond with five full sentences.  He then informed me that he had a shamrock shake on March 3rd, which he remembered because he loves mint ice cream. This was the most memorable experience of my week, principally because I'm fascinated by the way people link two things--a shamrock shake and a journal response--together. Right now, I'm listening to No Prizes by Kae Tempest and thinking of an episode of The Poetry Magazine Podcast with Sonia Sanchez and Tongo Eisen-Martin . And something about Kae Tempest's voice, the rap music tradition, basic melodies syncopated by lyrics, not just the words but the way one says them, n...

 Babes and bots,  I have one very important question for you: how do you pronounce February? Because I pronounce it like Feb-u-wary. Normal or abnormal? You tell me.  A few musings The first book I finish in 2022 will probably be The Road by Cormac McCarthy and this is my final confession…I’m sorry to all the writers out there who make art out of commas and dialogue. Cormac needs you, and so do I.  Children's books are underrated masterpieces. Biden might as well be a pencil.  Graveyards are weird.  Why don’t people cry more?  A few updates I got into graduate school! You heard it here first, folks! And it's fully funded, so rejection specialist my ass... Apparently we are going to war with Russia? I'm still so convinced that Osip Mandelstam is not a straight, cis-man, it's not even funny. I just don't see how these words could be true unless the human writing them was queer.  She may be known among her companions by her headband that preserves he...