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Peter Kaczmarczyk

@pkaczmar.bsky.social

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Poet. Author of The Scars Across My Thigh and Distant Yet Always Heard. Vinyl lover. Library Cataloger. Co-creator of the Captain Janeway Statue. Unpaid Cat Herder #vss365 #writingcommunity #poetry

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Mar 11

Poems with cats! The poetry book you know you need! Some light or silly, a few serious, these poems will put a smile on your face and faces of the cats you read them to. Want to get away from the doom and gloom of the news and the state of the world? This is the book for you. #poetry a.co/d/bEGhk2x

Could Have Gotten a Cat

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 2d

Escape the cage that’s
Erected around your soul
By one who claimed to love
Let not your existence remain
A silent tale of terror
Screams only heard on the inside
Your heart unseen
Unleash your voice to echo
In halls that once were dreams
Destroy it that holds you in its teeth
#vss365 #terror #unseen

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 2d

3 years ago this weekend I had the honor to have dinner with @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social. She'd come to Bloomington to see the statue of Captain Janeway that I and a dedicated team had designed, financed and erected. I can attest that Kate was genuine, funny, and a joy to spend time with. #startrek

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 2d

You I can fight
An enemy known
If I still have the energy
A lifetime spent
Battling demons’ unseen
You come for me in light
Masked minions who bleed
I prefer this over the shadows
That stalked my night
You threaten to take me whole
They drained my will to live
Bit by bit
#vss365 #unseen #energy

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 7d

I know you loved me once
More than a passing fancy
Less than a gateway to a different time and space
I don’t want you to suffer
I loved you too
But I do wish
As I sit with my dog and my whiskey
That my face hovers on the edge of your life
Telling you I am the one that got away
#vss365 #hover

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 8d

In early stages of the project some of us were very against a bronze bust because we had all seen the horrible Lucille Ball bust and other failures. When I went to the webpage of the person we choose I could recognize the subject of most of his works immediately and thought 'he's the one'

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 8d

I love this album. Not a bad track on it.

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 8d

I was not the sculpture but I was deeply involved in the creation of the statue. Faces are hard, and the sculpture worked really hard to get what he did, which was approved by Paramount and Kate Mulgrew.

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 8d

Boygenius. In their solo careers they were constantly encouraged to collaborate with men because the men were such a boy geniuses. Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus. In college a roommate pointed out that my album collection was virtually all men. He was right. I've come a long way Tony.

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

#NoKings

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

Captain Antifa!

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

#NoKings

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

Terrorists!

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

Terrorists!

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

Captain Antifa!

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

Stopped in to see the Captain on my way to the No Kings Rally. I'm sure we have her support. #nokings

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 9d

Just played an album I have not heard in 40 years. It has a truly haunting song about Anne Frank. How have we forgotten? How is it that some think that the Diary of Anne Frank is fake news? How have we gotten to where we are today? No Kings! Never Forget! Never Again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUf...

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 10d

I already have the charms and wards in place.

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 10d

In the midnight reading light dust swirls
Motions of a lone dancer with a tale to tell
Particles flaked from bark that coats your arid heart
Every time I feel it beat
A little more is sent spinning into the air
I inhale all I can to help me sleep
The only way I can hold a part of you
#vss365 #arid

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 10d

This cat's tired of your shit
I'm no photo prop
I refuse to be trotted out
To your wine soaked friends
Playing fake witchy games
Dressed like Stevie Nicks
I won’t summon an #unearthly spirit
Just for your amusement
But push me I’ll conjure one for mine
I'll bring on a demon to eat your face
#vss365

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · 22d

Children bounce when hitting the ground
Held together with rubber bands and chewing gum
Traumas faced down
Buried beneath smiles and trading cards
Time dries out the ties that bind
Elastic dreams becoming broken seams
Wisdom the illusion of age
Hard earth waiting to greet you again
#vss365 #elastic

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 20

Once upon a time hits from this album were overplayed. Listen closer. Martin Barres's guitar is amazing. Ian Anderson wrote lyrics capturing hypocrisy of a system we still live in today. Wonder'ing Aloud is a masterpiece in the simplest of forms. We have not progressed in 50 years. God save us all.

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 16

I hardly remember the world before cats had wings
I take comfort in the fact that
They still think we are fun to have around
Hairballs and rodent entrails are always raining down
We were once the dominant species before this new regime
Nowhere is safe from the little killing machines
#vss365 #wings

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really excited to have in hand the latest issue of New Square from the Sancho Panza Literary Society. I am honored that they have included my poem Solitude of Two, which I feel is one of my strongest works to date, amongst so many great authors. #poetry #lovepoems

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 9

I promised her a new toy for every copy of the poetry book I sell and I'm behind.

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 9

She is a beauty. 18 years old and going strong.

Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy #internationalcatday! Looking for just the right way to celebrate? Pick up a copy of my book of poems with #cats, Could Have Gotten a Cat. Mostly happy, a few sad, some just plain weird. You won't regret it and neither will the cats you read them to. #catsofbluesky #poetry a.co/d/bEGhk2x

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Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social · Aug 4

An angel danced on the head of a pin
I impaled it
Stuck it on my lapel as a charm
Turns out I was a djinn
Offered me 3 wishes for its freedom
But I was Aladdin Sane
I wore it till it passed away
I don't worry we'll meet again at the pearly gates
I know I won't be going there
#vss365 #angel #charm

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