Samuel Day Wharton
@fakeourway.bsky.social
(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Pinned
Friends, find a few recent poems by me here:
malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-...
wildroofjournal.com
www.engineidling.net/current
Also, stay tuned for more early next year!
malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2
stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-...
wildroofjournal.com
www.engineidling.net/current
Also, stay tuned for more early next year!
The Dawn Of Everything
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Dawn Of Everything
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A jumpscare every single time.
Cyber trucks are uglier in person, holy fuck.
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A jumpscare every single time.
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anyway one of the many reasons to support smaller publishers with a niche they do really well is they're generally publishing books they really care about rather than throwing a thousand titles at the market to see what sticks
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
anyway one of the many reasons to support smaller publishers with a niche they do really well is they're generally publishing books they really care about rather than throwing a thousand titles at the market to see what sticks
I was a child, I did not know // that what I longed for would resist
“I did not know that what I longed for would resist.” A poem by James Merrill.
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I was a child, I did not know // that what I longed for would resist
Damn it feels good to be an em-dasher
So what— I gotta not use em-dashes because someone might think it's AI?
It's not my fault that AI's the one that sucks.
It's not my fault that AI's the one that sucks.
a man wearing glasses and a tie is looking at the camera in an office .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a tie is looking at the camera in an office .
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Damn it feels good to be an em-dasher
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that hard swerve into capitalism when critiquing capitalism 😭
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
that hard swerve into capitalism when critiquing capitalism 😭
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🚨 SACRAMENTO CA: Nazi stickers spotted in East Sac this morning, according to a post in the /r/Sacramento subreddit.
#defendlavenderheights #sacramentonazi #nazispotted #lavenderangels #pridewasariot
#defendlavenderheights #sacramentonazi #nazispotted #lavenderangels #pridewasariot
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
🚨 SACRAMENTO CA: Nazi stickers spotted in East Sac this morning, according to a post in the /r/Sacramento subreddit.
#defendlavenderheights #sacramentonazi #nazispotted #lavenderangels #pridewasariot
#defendlavenderheights #sacramentonazi #nazispotted #lavenderangels #pridewasariot
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wait until they realize the capitalism they’ve internalized has harmed the victims they advocated for whereas poetry has saved some of them
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
wait until they realize the capitalism they’ve internalized has harmed the victims they advocated for whereas poetry has saved some of them
This but if we could also have hot showers. Can't go back to before hot showers...
just for the record, I would much prefer to live in a time where all it takes to support hundreds of good local jobs is to wake up every day and buy a newspaper for a nickel from a legally employed minor with a cool hat
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This but if we could also have hot showers. Can't go back to before hot showers...
I don't have snow or bitter cold. Just endless grey chill. I would like to talk to the owner.
Everyone else has snow, but we just have the bitter cold. I would like to talk to the manager. ❄️
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I don't have snow or bitter cold. Just endless grey chill. I would like to talk to the owner.
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every time I see an A-list actor in an ad for some slot machine phone game, I think about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation doing advertisements is framed as basically the highest form of humiliation an actor could go through.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
every time I see an A-list actor in an ad for some slot machine phone game, I think about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation doing advertisements is framed as basically the highest form of humiliation an actor could go through.
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“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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1 / 3.
Here's a little clue into our upcoming awards.
From Jan 1 - 31 we'll be accepting open nominations from EDITORS, WRITERS, & READERS alike for poetic pieces published online in 2025.
It'll be FREE TO NOMINATE via Google Form.
Details will be posted on Jan 1st!
#writers #poetrycommunity
Here's a little clue into our upcoming awards.
From Jan 1 - 31 we'll be accepting open nominations from EDITORS, WRITERS, & READERS alike for poetic pieces published online in 2025.
It'll be FREE TO NOMINATE via Google Form.
Details will be posted on Jan 1st!
#writers #poetrycommunity
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
1 / 3.
Here's a little clue into our upcoming awards.
From Jan 1 - 31 we'll be accepting open nominations from EDITORS, WRITERS, & READERS alike for poetic pieces published online in 2025.
It'll be FREE TO NOMINATE via Google Form.
Details will be posted on Jan 1st!
#writers #poetrycommunity
Here's a little clue into our upcoming awards.
From Jan 1 - 31 we'll be accepting open nominations from EDITORS, WRITERS, & READERS alike for poetic pieces published online in 2025.
It'll be FREE TO NOMINATE via Google Form.
Details will be posted on Jan 1st!
#writers #poetrycommunity
if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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I got a new poem published in Mugwort Magazine
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I got a new poem published in Mugwort Magazine
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The people who think the Bible, which was written by mystics, priests, and poets, means only what it literally says are the same people who think the Constitution, which was written by lawyers, cannot possibly mean what it literally says.
Exactly. If they meant freed people, they would have written, "freed people." Instead, they wrote, "all persons" because they meant all persons.
This debate is idiotic.
This debate is idiotic.
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The people who think the Bible, which was written by mystics, priests, and poets, means only what it literally says are the same people who think the Constitution, which was written by lawyers, cannot possibly mean what it literally says.
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no star wars or trek, LOTR, Marvelous, Potter, Disney or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no star wars or trek, LOTR, Marvelous, Potter, Disney or Pixar.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A surreal little beauty for #smallpoemsunday in the Scaffoldlit.com archives
Worse Ways To Go
Zebulon Huset
Worse Ways To Go
Zebulon Huset
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A surreal little beauty for #smallpoemsunday in the Scaffoldlit.com archives
Worse Ways To Go
Zebulon Huset
Worse Ways To Go
Zebulon Huset
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~