D. A. Hosek
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@dahosek.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Fall-Winter 2025 - Rat's Ass Review
Donald Patten “Mask Gleaners” (charcoal on canvas) The Poetry Kelli Allen ROBBING THE TABLE WHERE NOTHING EXISTS Both our jackets escaped the fall, but the radio stayed a static river anyway, no matte...
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Beginning a big thread of 2025 publications (yes, I know it’s September. This is the first thing published this year) with my poem “Chicago Sonnet #26” in Rat’s Ass Review.
The garbage man is smoking a cigar while he drives down the alley and suddenly I feel like I’m in a cartoon from the 50s
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The garbage man is smoking a cigar while he drives down the alley and suddenly I feel like I’m in a cartoon from the 50s
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Should I buy a house now or wait for the economy to crash?
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Worth the click through.
Japanese Monk Racks
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Worth the click through.
So the Nobel people invited Danny Ocean to perform at the peace prize ceremony and don’t these people ever go to the movies? The performance is a distraction from the heist being pulled off by the other 7–12 oceans on his crew.
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
So the Nobel people invited Danny Ocean to perform at the peace prize ceremony and don’t these people ever go to the movies? The performance is a distraction from the heist being pulled off by the other 7–12 oceans on his crew.
Got my very first “I enjoyed reading your work” email¹ today and man, it feels good.
If you read something that you like, send an email to the author, they will appreciate it.
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1. Excluding ones that came in response to my sending an email to someone published in the same journal as me.
If you read something that you like, send an email to the author, they will appreciate it.
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1. Excluding ones that came in response to my sending an email to someone published in the same journal as me.
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Got my very first “I enjoyed reading your work” email¹ today and man, it feels good.
If you read something that you like, send an email to the author, they will appreciate it.
⸻
1. Excluding ones that came in response to my sending an email to someone published in the same journal as me.
If you read something that you like, send an email to the author, they will appreciate it.
⸻
1. Excluding ones that came in response to my sending an email to someone published in the same journal as me.
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“Movies are filled with metaphors and symbols; you just have to look for them.” 🤣🤪😹
"When Hannibal tells Clarice he ate that guy’s liver with 'some fava beans and a nice chianti,' that is a metaphor for eating figgy pudding and eggnog with a big Christmas ham. Movies are filled with metaphors and symbols; you just have to look for them."
Yes, The Silence of the Lambs Is a Christmas Movie
It’s the debate that just won’t die: is The Silence of the Lambs a Christmas movie? Naysayers say “nay” and they say “nay” because it’s a movie wit...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“Movies are filled with metaphors and symbols; you just have to look for them.” 🤣🤪😹
Annual reminder on the feast of the Immaculate Conception that “Immaculate Conception” refers to the conception of Mary, not Jesus.¹
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1. The fact that today’s Gospel is about Jesus’s conception doesn’t help with this misconception.²
2. So to speak.
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1. The fact that today’s Gospel is about Jesus’s conception doesn’t help with this misconception.²
2. So to speak.
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Annual reminder on the feast of the Immaculate Conception that “Immaculate Conception” refers to the conception of Mary, not Jesus.¹
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1. The fact that today’s Gospel is about Jesus’s conception doesn’t help with this misconception.²
2. So to speak.
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1. The fact that today’s Gospel is about Jesus’s conception doesn’t help with this misconception.²
2. So to speak.
Found poem in shuffle mode on my phone:
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
I’m Going to Sleep with One Eye Open
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
I’m Going to Sleep with One Eye Open
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Found poem in shuffle mode on my phone:
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
I’m Going to Sleep with One Eye Open
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
I’m Going to Sleep with One Eye Open
Movie I’ve seen more than 6 times?
December 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Movie I’ve seen more than 6 times?
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
Boobies!
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Boobies!
Literal receipts
Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it.
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Literal receipts
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Hey guys, it's Mr. Beast here, with Mark of the Beast Financial Services!
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hey guys, it's Mr. Beast here, with Mark of the Beast Financial Services!
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
I’m cautiously optimistic that the Texas gerrymander is going to end up a dummymander where having reduced their majorities to try to gain more seats they end up losing the newly drawn districts and then some.
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I’m cautiously optimistic that the Texas gerrymander is going to end up a dummymander where having reduced their majorities to try to gain more seats they end up losing the newly drawn districts and then some.
As I change “a” to “the” and back again I find myself envious of languages without articles.¹
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1. “Fun”² fact: Outside of the Western European languages, articles are generally absent from Indo-European languages.
2. Well, fun for a language nerd like me.
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1. “Fun”² fact: Outside of the Western European languages, articles are generally absent from Indo-European languages.
2. Well, fun for a language nerd like me.
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
As I change “a” to “the” and back again I find myself envious of languages without articles.¹
⸻
1. “Fun”² fact: Outside of the Western European languages, articles are generally absent from Indo-European languages.
2. Well, fun for a language nerd like me.
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1. “Fun”² fact: Outside of the Western European languages, articles are generally absent from Indo-European languages.
2. Well, fun for a language nerd like me.
If you think my posts are garbage, you should see the stuff I decide not to post.
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you think my posts are garbage, you should see the stuff I decide not to post.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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Tales From The Keane Compound #878
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tales From The Keane Compound #878
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”The sun rises. It is always doing that.” is a legit banger
At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
”The sun rises. It is always doing that.” is a legit banger
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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Charlestown, Virginia Dec 2, 1859
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Charlestown, Virginia Dec 2, 1859
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
