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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 9d

As one window shuts (@iambapoet.com), another opens – and this one's for the whole of October.

If you have an 'after' or #ekphrastic poem that's looking for a home, that home could be @afterpoetry.com.

So go on. Send it in.

afterpoetry.com/submit

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 21m

What about her? She okay?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 24m

That just means, 'We put it on skin'.

Okay, great. What were the fucking results? Did the rabbit break out in blisters?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 27m

Everyone? Really?

I know this all hyperbolic rhetoric, but honestly, I've never given Pluto more than a few minutes' thought.

It's millions of fucking miles away, inhospitable to carbon-based life (so far as we know), and I'm never, ever going there for a holiday.

Also, Pluto isn't sentient.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2h

And yes, I hear your arguments about it probably being a chatroom filled either with men posing as lesbians or far fewer actual gay women than appeared to be the case. But the chats being had would've bored most (horny) men to tears, driving them out almost immediately. I liked it in there, though.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2h

Depends on the chatroom. For six months over the winter of '98/'99, I posed as a woman in a lesbian chatroom. Only one lady rumbled me – but because I wasn't making a nuisance of myself and instead just joining in with various (non-sexual) conversations, she never told anyone there.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 16h

This one (bullshit though it is – no one's taking a kid's drawing as conclusive evidence of a potato parasite that risks ruining an entire crop ... unless the farm is on the Isle of Man) has really gone over your head, hasn't it?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 16h

Or in a commercial airliner full of passengers as it slams into a mountainside.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 17h

I know. I worked in the turn-of-this-century bullshit media world. Kept looking round the studio for hidden cameras ...

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23h

Haven't shared much poetry by others here recently. Been (and still am) too preoccupied with auditions for @iambapoet.com and subs for @afterpoetry.com ... which are still open till the end of this month, by the way. 😉

Anyhow, I just had to share this by @victoriaspires.bsky.social.

bit.ly/4nCLzAy

Victoria Spires — BRAWL

bit.ly

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Reposted by 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

If I sold the weed on my writing desk, I’d make more money.

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody just asked me if I live off being a published poet...

a person is sitting on a chair in the middle of a field with trees in the background .

ALT: a person is sitting on a chair in the middle of a field with trees in the background .

media.tenor.com

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

I was thinking of this as soon as I read the fess! 😆

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Or to sink enough pints to get rid of the taste.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

And cocksucking. Lots and lots of cocksucking.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

See your eight, raise you ... one more. 😆

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

No my friend, you'll be feeding them for a month ...

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Long as you both make it home safely.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

I read 'funding' as 'fucking' and thought, 'Well sure, that's their motivation sorted – but who's actually PAYING for everything?!'

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

While also songwriting on the side for an insanely popular 90s Brit pop band. That would've fetched in a few bob.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Fuck that! The strings, man! How the bloody hell did they accomplish all that without becoming horribly entangled in basically everything?!

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Sure, but ... if you try telling me that post-Gabriel Genesis is anything other than The Phil Collins Band, I may have to swing for you!

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Your use of the word 'fellows' suggests that at YOUR school, things done to pupils might've included the need for butter. Or spit.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Hang on – you got the game back ... but without the dice? Then he told you two decades later he'd ... lost the whole game?!

Weirdest 'Tales of the Unexpected' episode ever!

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Niiiiiice callback, sir!

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

That's just a self-pleasuring toy ... I'm told.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Or fuck someone else.