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Karin
@drivelikekarin.bsky.social
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Writer, poetry workshop facilitator, collagist, and birder based in Portland, Oregon. Author of See You Never (2024). she/they 🌈
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 4h
In another life I would have pursued a career in something related to public policy; glad I became a poet instead.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 1d
Shazam-ing my neighbors’ shitty metalcore through the wall to see which terrible band they’re listening to, and then getting even madder when it’s one I’ve never heard of. Worst genre.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 2d
I love Caesar the No Drama Llama and more people outside Oregon need to know about him (plus crucial therapy llama feud content from 2020, for the archive): www.wweek.com/culture/2020...
The Owners of Two Portland Celebrity Llamas Are Feuding
From the city that brought you squabbling strip clubs and pork-related chef brawls comes a new entry to the category of public in-fighting among Portland cultural figures: celebrity llama drama.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 2d
Eileen Myles nails it.
Poem by Eileen Myles: Today I would love to love someone forever & fuck them till they died.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 4d
People have been mistakenly calling me “Karen” my whole life, and I don’t mind correcting people, but in an age of karens it is a bit tiring, gotta say.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 4d
Suddenly remembered this Big Star song I was obsessed with 10-15 years ago. All of my favorite songs are love songs youtu.be/utOb0JRLH0A?...
Nightime
YouTube video by Big Star - Topic
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 5d
Emily Skaja’s got the juice.
Poem: BRUTE STRENGTH Soldier for a lost cause, brute, mute woman written out of my own story, I've been trying to cast a searchlight over swamp-woods & parasitic ash back to my beginning, that girlhood— kite-wisp clouded by gun salutes & blackbirds tearing out from under the hickories all those fine August mornings so temporary so gold-ringed by heat haze & where is that witch girl unafraid of anything, flea-spangled little yard rat, runt of no litter, queen, girl who wouldn't let a boy hit her, girl refusing to be It in tag, pulling that fox hide heavy around her like a flag? Let me look at her. Tell her on my honor, I will set the wedding dress on fire when I'm good & ready or she can bury me in it.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 7d
This Horse Feathers cover of Nirvana came out in 2010 and I’m sad I didn’t know about it, a great song to slow down: youtu.be/3-FO0HaVc0Y?...
Drain You
YouTube video by Horse Feathers - Topic
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 8d
Fiona Apple and Jon Brion covering Buddy Holly. I love this song, would 100% sing it to a baby: youtu.be/IJGZImkXMVc?...
Everyday
YouTube video by Fiona Apple - Topic
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 10d
From Safe Word by Donald Dunbar:
THE O F ENEMIES LOVE My mother was fond of digital pets, And put her hand on my head, And pressed her finger down. My father was a smartphone. My brother is a simile. My sister is a butterfly who eats butterflies. She flutters over, and matches her wings to theirs. I say "Oh you're a dragonfly!" and she says, "No, an angel." The cutscenes make it look like I'm living this life like a pro. But the gameplay footage shows me getting beat to death by angels. Shows me reloading, Shows me getting crushed under the weight of the gold I recover from their corpses. In this way, I come to resemble even my enemies.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 14d
Maybe mostly everyone has seen it by now, and Fallon sucks, but this song by Hayley Williams is really kind of great, calls out white southern christofascism and racism, more of this, please! youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...
Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 19d
Incredibly rad and a jam, a real bop: youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?...
Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble
YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 21d
“Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die,” sang Robert Smith, age 26. youtu.be/scif2vfg1ug?...
The Cure - In Between Days
YouTube video by TheCureVEVO
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 23d
I’ve been sad lately about a lot of things, but annoying animal dance party protest makes me laugh, great tactic, I love it here, never leaving.
thedailyshow.com The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 23d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 25d
Sometimes all I want is to listen to some guitar chords and a little ditty, thank you, Arthur Russell: youtu.be/FjPhXjmrTPE?...
Arthur Russell - Close My Eyes
YouTube video by Audika Records
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · 27d
Transcribing that Jane Goodall interview clip into my poetry journal for future reference and thinking that slide guitar might be my favorite instrument (I thought it was theremin or handclaps). It is definitely Sunday.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Oct 2
Here for the mushroom-powered toilets: www.popsci.com/environment/...
World's first mushroom-powered toilet could replace stinky porta-potties
Fungi flush out the odor in this pilot program.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Sep 28
About to go to the community arts and crafts store for some collage supplies here in war-ravaged Portland. 60 degrees and the sun is shining, an absolute hellscape.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Sep 26
From Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night by Morgan Parker:
There Are Other Things I Want to Explain but They Are Mysteries What is usually said about love I ignore worship instead the wilted flowers gleaming in our throats what you don't know is I envy this world and I want to save it squeeze its bloodied hand like so saying this will sting but only for a minute our primary concern will always be the gnawing feeling like when I wake up to wonder how many serial killers have entered my life how the truth can feel like ant hills their sandy curves their tiny crests like nipples what I really want to ask is what do you think of the idea of progress and is it an injury I can fix
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Sep 14
Little bite from Paul Legault:
3 AIRS I. So what if electricity can kill elephants? The internet which is powered by the same force swung us into such a tizzy, and all I can see is pictures of us looking back at ourselves inside of the enveloping world.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Aug 19
Feeling despair as AI increasingly takes over my writing dayjob opportunities and thinking of this panel with sci fi authors I went to back in 2019. I wonder what those writers are up to now that it’s fully taken over. slate.com/technology/2...
What Sci-Fi Futures Can (and Can’t) Teach Us About A.I. Policy
Join us in Washington on May 7 for a half-day mini-conference on the intersection of science fiction, futurism, and real-world A.I. policy.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Aug 19
Up crying about the scourge of capitalism, wyd
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Aug 12
Reading through poems on my shelf and found this little ghazal from Kaveh Akbar:
GHAZAL FOR THE MEN I ONCE WAS If you re immortal, God better be too. Otherwise? Otherwise. Hello, have you disrobed? The nursemaid is stomping her hooves. Don't make her fret like that. Dip a finger in your bourbon, tap it to your lip. Bad water. Bedwetter. Now watch thosehands through your blood jealous moths. How do they heaven, upset like that? The hungry bear won't dance. Bad milk burnt her tongue. How to find your voice: try, You're bound to it like a knight to his century. Everything forgets like that. The key, filed smooth to fit every lock, opens none. The bitter mourning uselessly in the rain. In the beginning was the eye, and the eye was wet like that. Like a pin pushed through a pane of glass. Like life lasting longer than you can bear. Like a sundial gone bad. Like your own name. Dead set like that.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Aug 6
A wolf poem I like, from Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser.
Dedication I can see your wolf in the bathroom mirror. Your wolf is built of purplish light. It barely sleeps at night. I use my eagles to touch your wolf. Try harder to carry your wolf, I say. Carry it over the fields of snow past the army of ghosts asleep in the vale. Circumnavigate the necropolis. If your wolf gets too heavy, don't pop your flares. No one will rescue you. You are the rescue team. When you arrive at the secret bakery the bakery is closed. The stars appear one at a time, completely naked. Your wolf will die amongst the cedars behind your face. Let's name him Robert Frost.
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Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social · Aug 6
Elliott Smith covering Waterloo Sunset on The Jon Brion Show, directed by PT Anderson: youtu.be/LFbQQzkZuqU?...
Elliott Smith, The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset cover [Live on the Jon Brion Show]
YouTube video by Junk Bond Trader
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