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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-10-03 08:55 pm

You can't stop us and we're dancing

My poems "And a Sleep Full of Sweet Dreams" and "Uncle Sonya" have been accepted by The Cascadia Subduction Zone. The first is a cranky mythological poem about insomnia that I wrote in a doctor's waiting room; the second riffs on the name Fox uses for me and [personal profile] shewhomust's immediate location of it within the Chekhov canon.

Courtesy of [personal profile] selkie: "Some Lines, On the Occasion of Discovering That One of Donald Trump's Border Plans Was a Moat Filled With Snakes."

Looking for something else entirely, I ran across this photo of members of the original Broadway cast of 1776 with Richard Nixon following a performance at the White House in 1971. The musical is winning on formal wear hands down. William Daniels looks pretty much exactly as I would expect his John Adams to look under the circumstances.

The man sitting two seats down from me on the bus home tonight looked extremely like mid-period Ralph Bellamy, right down to the wave in the hair that no one this century wears anymore, and I don't know what to make of that.
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[personal profile] heron61 2019-10-04 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Some Lines, On the Occasion of Discovering That One of Donald Trump’s Border Plans Was a Moat Filled With Snakes."

OK, that was delightful (in an oh gods how is this our reality sort of way, but hey, laughter beats the alternative).
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2019-10-04 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"And he is high as fuck on Adderall."

That poem rules so hard.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2019-10-04 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! I assume this means we'll be sharing a table of contents.

That snake poem is amazing, as is that photo.

Maybe it was young Satanist Ralph Bellamy, who happens to be adept at time travel.
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[personal profile] selkie 2019-10-04 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
*thuds*
It is good you got home safe in case you need to go on our cruise instead of me because I have died. Of Tishreisentery.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2019-10-04 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yay poetry!
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[personal profile] sholio 2019-10-04 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! And welcome home!

[personal profile] pengwern 2019-10-04 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
\o/ congratulations on the poems! and oof on the one you linked.
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[personal profile] oracne 2019-10-04 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray for sales!!!
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[personal profile] brigdh 2019-10-04 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the poems!
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[personal profile] dramaticirony 2019-10-05 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Happy for you, and the people who get to read your poems for the first time!