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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 13h

The Living?

No words
will make them come alive.

Only words
will make them come alive.

John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Dead?

No words
will bring them back.

Only words
will bring them back.

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 8h

Trump First

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve got a photo of it somewhere. I’ll look

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Dead?

No words
will bring them back.

Only words
will bring them back.

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 4d

Great News

The online travel journal CULTURA just published a piece I wrote about a heart attack I experienced on a transatlantic cruise.

Check it out and please leave a comment.

And don't forget to check out the journal. Great stuff there

cultura.me.uk/2025/10/06/b...

Bad Day at Sea. On Cruising and Heart Trouble

Fifteen years ago this summer, I had a heart attack on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic, on the way to England. My wife Linda and I were on board the Independence of the Seas, doing what…

cultura.me.uk

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 4d

My heart seems fine. After 12 my cardiologist said I didn’t need to see him any more. But I’ve got walking problems, balance problems, bones disintegrating, arthritis. I’m even going blind in one eye! But I can still write.

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Daily Screenplay Festival contests @dailyscreenplays.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s Screenplay Festival Deadline (Oct. 6th): WESTERN Screenplay Contest

storypitches.com/western-scre...

The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute asfilms which are “set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier.”

WESTERN Screenplay Festival – Deadline October 6th

The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute asfilms which are “set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier.&#822…

storypitches.com

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 4d

Great News

The online travel journal CULTURA just published a piece I wrote about a heart attack I experienced on a transatlantic cruise.

Check it out and please leave a comment.

And don't forget to check out the journal. Great stuff there

cultura.me.uk/2025/10/06/b...

Bad Day at Sea. On Cruising and Heart Trouble

Fifteen years ago this summer, I had a heart attack on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic, on the way to England. My wife Linda and I were on board the Independence of the Seas, doing what…

cultura.me.uk

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 4d

the dog was sniffing
through the woods,
trotting, his tongue
just hanging,

he knew he was
getting close to something
and he was happy.

then suddenly
he didn't know anything,
his heart just stopped
and he dropped like a stone
on the leaves.

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 4d

Poetry sits at the table
drinking coffee

she wonders
why it's so quiet here

she remembers all the coffee
she ever drank

and stirs the star of words
into the cup

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 9d

If and when normal "rule of law" returns, any federal employee who follows this MAGA instruction would be vulnerable to prosecution under the Hatch Act.

("If and when" doing a lot of work here.)

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

www.wired.com

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 9d

Beautiful, insightful words from the amazing author Zig Zag Claybourne: Yes, evil people have hijacked much of the world, but it's good people who keep it livable. Good people are saying let me kiss your forehead, let me feed you, what do you need, how can I help? 1/
zzclaybourne.com/write-on-rig...

This Is Not A Writing Entry, So I’ll Keep It Brief — ZZ Claybourne

Sometimes I feel a deep need to apologize without knowing specifically to whom or for what. That vagueness is probably a good thing. Keeps me honestly reflective and aware enough to know wishing I cou...

zzclaybourne.com

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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · 10d

Originally wrote this haiku for Tom Ricks' "Best Defense" blog at @foreignpolicy.com. Seems appropriate to re-post today.

Background story & all 7 haiku:
www.fobhaiku.com/2018/07/from...

Also printed in "Twelve O'Clock Haiku: Leadership Lessons from Old War Movies & New Poems":
amzn.to/3ShSDCr

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 6d

What my father ate to stay alive in the concentration camp

lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/2016/09/what...

What My Father Ate

My father survived almost 5 years of slave labor in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. He worked 12-14 hours a day and 6 and 7 days a week,...

lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 6d

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 10d

I tear up old poems.
Stick them to the wall.
Listen to their groans.
Wait for the silence
to come like night.

Then I paint over them.

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 11d

Fuck Foreign Films!

Trump Doubles Down on 100% Tariff for Movies Made Outside the US

The next tariff will be on foreign books.

This kind of stuff just makes us stupider.

Imagine a world where you can’t see a movie by Fellini or read a book by Charles Dickens.

a woman in a black dress is kneeling in front of a waterfall in a black and white photo .

ALT: a woman in a black dress is kneeling in front of a waterfall in a black and white photo .

media.tenor.com

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 11d

Every morning is a poem waiting to be read.

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John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 12d

On the last day of life on earth, a little boy asked his mother for a drink of water, and she smiled and kissed him on the forehead.

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And 23 other things happened on the last day.

Here's a link to my story "The Last Day of Life on Earth"

atticusreview.org/the-last-day...

The Last Day of Life on Earth - Atticus Review

On the last day of life on earth, a little boy asked his mother for a drink of water, and she smiled and kissed him on the forehead. In Chicago a bartender walked outside and stared at the sun for a m...

atticusreview.org

John Guzlowski @jzguzlowski.bsky.social · 13d

Emily Dickinson and me castle.eiu.edu/agora/May05/...

a black and white photo of emily dickinson

ALT: a black and white photo of emily dickinson

media.tenor.com

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 14d

for that one moment
my thought of you returned
to where you left it

oyoguhito
#haiku
haikueye.blogspot.com

haiku eye

as eyes seize it

haikueye.blogspot.com

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Joe Black @joeblack1.bsky.social · 14d

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Sue Hardy-Dawson @suehardy-dawson.bsky.social · 14d

Today's #NationalPoetryDay poem, what could be more playful than a shape poem. This one from my 1st collection Where Zebras Go Otter-Barry Books @domconlon.bsky.social @piecorbett.bsky.social @brianbilston.bsky.social @brianmosespoet.bsky.social

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 14d

and still they flower on

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