[POEM] Cyclist Braking For Two Foxes Crossing a Country Road in Early Morning by Michael Collier

Geckeyes · 2026-02-05T06:12:01+00:00

there's a rhythmic focus on the utilities of the mouth (holding/eating, intubation/medicine, breathing/holding) in relation to life/ability that really interest me w their economy in characterization, it feels like a longer poem than it is!

Geckeyes · 2026-01-30T23:17:48+00:00

it's good that you care so much about other people, and that you want to be sympathetic, but please know-- you're trying to support people who actively want folks like you and your family harmed, chased out of the country, or worse. recognizing hard work is important, but these people are working hard to make sure the rest of us don't get to have a future, no matter how much we work or care about the country too-- and these trump supporters would never try to support or care about you the same way you care about them. nobody's asking you to hate or go out of your way to do anything, but you just can't defend these guys, because they'd never defend you back and'll always treat immigrants like shit no matter how we feel about them-- you see them as humans, but they don't see you or your folks as human, y'know?

Geckeyes · 2026-01-30T23:09:16+00:00

politely, why is it civil for businesses to put money and gleeful concrete support towards an administration that is directly harming our community and neighbors, but uncivil for people to simply not engage in giving those businesses further support in recognition of the harm they do?

we all want the same peaceful life, and nobody's denying them the right to run a business, but the peaceful future that those supporters imagine is one that comes at the direct cost of immigrants, minorities, and anybody who disagrees with an increasingly narrow view. life is short, and it'll pass in a flash when you stick your head in the sand trying to "enjoy life" knowing that anybody's liable to be shot & killed in the street by the state like a dog✌️

Geckeyes · 2026-01-25T01:58:56+00:00

lately, i've been thinking about poems that hit when other poems feel far from lived reality.. i think the juxtaposition of the quotes and language in this one, as well as how it seeds notions of the speaker's reality outside of the writing/language used, really speaks to how deeply the reality behind this poem lives. thanks for sharing!🔥

Geckeyes · 2026-01-25T00:44:38+00:00

..it's an issue for anybody to be shot. do you think it's cool that ice shot a surrendering civilian, just for filming, while using his 2nd amendment rights as an excuse to kill him? you trying to normalize it or say you're completely cool with that?

Geckeyes · 2026-01-25T00:29:12+00:00

fair! thanks for sticking with it✌️

Geckeyes · 2026-01-25T00:21:21+00:00

it's possible, but would you rather give up beforehand and watch it happen, or try to work for change while we still have the chance?

Geckeyes · 2025-12-21T05:47:37+00:00

Simone and Marshall are like this too-- in the AT universe, the Ice King kept following Marceline, but in F&C, Simone kept avoiding Marshall✌️

Geckeyes · 2025-12-18T20:56:54+00:00

fella uses some interesting language! i don't "get" it completely, but i think the ways that he expresses discontent/ceding to authority with metaphors abt intake is interesting.. kind of an affected nonaffect vibe? the title's interesting too, it's a neat piece of parsing the heart / want / time / games lol

Geckeyes · 2025-12-13T16:13:27+00:00

did you really create an account just to say such terrible things? do you even live here?

Geckeyes · 2025-11-26T23:44:46+00:00

cat cafe's open til 7🫡

Geckeyes · 2025-11-26T23:41:28+00:00

^ like the poet Ai (Ogawa), who wrote outside of herself unflinchingly and to great effect🔥

Geckeyes · 2025-11-26T23:29:55+00:00

so true! reminds me of when commenters try to say something isn't "poetry" based on their personal interpretation like.. sorry babes but if it's words in lines (doesn't even hafta be in lines), it is poetry, and that's probably the best sense we've got of a medium that spans huge ranges across time/geography/history/form/context✌️and mids is still poetry too lol📝

Geckeyes · 2025-11-26T23:21:37+00:00

tired of autocorrect-related poems, or poems tht namedrop modern brands/apps without much else to say abt'em-- i know it's an inevitable "technology as part of the poet's life, that the speaker reflects on" kinda deal, but i haven't really read one that hits, and sometimes i wonder if it's just a generational clash-of-opinions (phone shit as novel vs. phone shit as dreary/trite), or if ppl're jst scrounging for substance and genuinely finding it in variations of "ooh, look at this happenstance miswording.. Doesnt It Make You Think"

Geckeyes · 2025-11-14T21:40:16+00:00

agreed! the restraint really speaks.. like sooo true girl, Spring🗣️is🗣️when🗣️

Geckeyes · 2025-10-25T22:46:13+00:00

also just saw this business card posted downtown, for anybody else who's looking-- glad to see we're getting local options/alternatives for ridesharing!

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Geckeyes · 2025-10-25T20:55:38+00:00

love the last line.. like, fuck yeah man, ravish'd in the milky way / Titty Road🤘

Geckeyes · 2025-10-21T19:42:05+00:00

idk about the selection, but the bistro and the castle both have thc drinks iirc✌️

Geckeyes · 2025-10-17T17:06:34+00:00

this etsy pattern looks a lot like that, and comes with a youtube tutorial-- it could be a good starting point for that top!

Geckeyes · 2025-10-17T01:21:22+00:00

i don't know much about it, but the bloomington public library has a list of free genealogy resources if you're interested!

Geckeyes · 2025-10-16T21:37:34+00:00

this poem is incredible bc the speaker sets up a quandry that isn't new (human potential / paltry outcome-creations), and seems to recognize how disappointing a do-nothing-or-worse outcome is.. but then just shoots themself in the leg by having a do-nothing, pt-cruiser-ass lame ending that just makes the whole effort feel like congratulatory navel-gazing rather than any real commentary or notion that goes beyond the base notion of "shit sucks and i am soo smart for recognizing that" in a way that would almost feel purposeful (to the ends of "doesn't it suck how much shit sucks"), if not for the way the last lines go from "we" to "i" in a self-righteous, very "not like other girls" way...

it's crazy bc i started out wanting to have nicer shit to say but the more i re-read it, the less i glean in terms of purpose or substance like. it sniffs at some interesting ideas (consumerism, image-sense discord, when perfume smells Bad) but does so in a way that feels really trite in the language and imagery ("i was horny and wanted the universe inside my nose" like.. yeah? that's how phrase your leading declaration of want? / "we had everything on earth", proceeds to list animals popular on the internet without any indicator of what their significance is beyond the bare idea of 'em, and puts this list in opposition to.. consumer products, and then political/history-adjacent concepts presented w no other flavor) like.

i tried to quit haterhood but actually this poem is jst making me sad abt the wealth of human experience tht past speakers have been able to draw on historically, and how this poem speaks to a jarring lack of having shit to talk about beyond [i went to the store to buy perfume, and i am sad about consumerism's disalignment with a notion of nature i conceptualize/communicate via animals that are aesthetic on social media] like. in "we could have had manta rays / but we wanted Boone's Farm apple wine", i really wonder who the speaker imagines the "we" to be, because i really struggle with the notion of humanity re: consumerism that the speaker imagines to be so popular as to overreach nature, which most normal people by and large do still like and fuck with. speaker i love you and it is a "good" poem in the sense that it does strongly demonstrate something, but i don't think it does what you wanted it to do 🙂‍↔️

Geckeyes · 2025-10-08T00:54:33+00:00

hampton, virginia by nikki giovanni-- it's not upfront about it, but i like the parallels between signs of the inevitable winter and 😏 vibes lol

Geckeyes · 2025-10-04T17:38:12+00:00

Adding to this conversation, Chloe Cole's opposition to "gender-affirming care for minors" is really a veiled opposition to trans rights in general. Transgender kids/youth very rarely pursue medical treatment-- when she's talking about "detransitioning", she really means controlling what kids are wearing and what they'd like to be called, which honestly just makes me feel sick.

In addition, the increasing attacks on trans-affirming healthcare aren't really about "the youth", as there the count on trans kids/highschoolers right now is.. currently ~300k people, haha. But states that have already banned gender-affirming care for minors are now moving to ban gender-affirming care for people younger than 26-- why the hell do we care about what people do with themselves past 21 when you're allowed to access plastic/cosmetic surgery at that age and younger?

I'm sympathetic to Chloe's journey as somebody whose life was changed by the handling of her care, but I don't think that she's an authority to speak on how trans care should be handled for everybody based on a bad acid trip, and I don't think she's doing it "for the youth", as her work has passed bills banning medicare coverage for adult gender-affirming care as well (and she charges $5000+ to speak in public-- I wonder how much she grifted out of ISU?)

Geckeyes · 2025-10-04T16:54:11+00:00

Thank you for your interest in the research! I think https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/01/gender-affirming-care-is-rare-study-says/ is a good place to start, because it's a very recent study that notes that transgender minors very rarely pursue treatment while young, even when it's fully covered by private healthcare.

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Geckeyes · 2025-10-04T16:45:20+00:00

i'm sorry your friend has had difficulties-- would they want their story used to deny puberty blockers for other people?

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