happy one year anniversary to possibly the best plum poem since william carlos williams' "this is just to say"

[ID: A tweet by The CryptoNaturalist (@ CryptoNature) reading, “The universe is an ongoing explosion. That’s where you live. In an explosion.

We absolutely don’t know what living is.

Sometimes atoms just get very haunted.

That’s us.

When an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself.

And tweets about it.” End ID]

I love that it can be just murder threats or gay promises or both and all of these scenarios are perfectly believable here

ok i found it! it's called the average fourth grader is a better poet than you (and me too)

here are three of my favourite excerpts

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“While the average older student's poems are heavy with allegiance to a limited view of reality, the average younger writer's vision of the world is nimble and surprising—bizarre, yet true.

Last year I spent every Saturday tutoring an extremely undersocialized kid in vocab. When I taught her the word blandishments (“to flatter, coax, sweet-talk, appeal to”) she wrote this sentence: “The blandishments of the sugar flowers made the cake so much more inviting.”

The sentence is interesting because the student understood that a blandishment is something that attracts favorable attention without fully realizing that people almost always use the word to refer to a human action.

The poet’s job is to forget how people do it.”