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Samuel Day Wharton

@fakeourway.bsky.social

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(re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades some books / some music / some wine / some dogs / some politics Sacramento CA

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 12d

Friends, find a few recent poems by me here:

malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2

stonecirclereview.com/aubade-with-...

wildroofjournal.com

Also, stay tuned for more coming in the fall & early next year!

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1h

Spirit Airlines sending me increasingly desperate emails to book travel the week after they ceased operations in my city 🤷‍♂️

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 2h

These clouds this morning y'all...

#sacramento

Some cool feathery clouds in the pre-dawn sky.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 4h

"A novelty for the lazy" absolutely f&$@in nails it.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5h

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 3h

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 14h

I just got an email regarding my "Facebook User Privacy Settlement – Notice of Upcoming Settlement Payment."

So there's that.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

Looks just like Pacific Rim to me

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe they got one of these women. Finally.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 15h

This lady?

Photo of agent Peggy Carter, Captain America’s girlfriend

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

10 horror movies to get to know me

Alien
The Thing (original)
The Cabin In The Woods
Nope
Candyman (original)
Dead Alive
Halloween (original)
The Descent
Let The Right One In
It Follows

Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 16h

10 horror movies to get to know me

28 Days Later
Alien
Get Out
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Devil's Backbone
The Others
Critters
Tremors
The Lost Boys
The Thing

Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 19h

10 horror movies to get to know me

Alien
The Shining
It Follows
The Witch
The Babadook
Salem's Lot
Fright Night
An American Werewolf in London
Night of the Living Dead
The Ring

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

Constantly, but mostly in good ways!

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

Yes! & The way you put the image under pressure opening it up for so much exploration... Nicely done!

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks so much! Wrote that during high summer here in Sacramento, but I think it definitely has a bit of spooky season feel.

I was really blown away by both of these, but especially "SCIENTISTS CONFIRM BIRDS MIGRATE TO ESCAPE HARSH WINTERS." The repetition there like hammer-blows, so much force...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16h

Angel it’s dark
but almost morning

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3d

"Angel if I felt better about myself / I could fall asleep"

Former Poetry Editor @williamfargason.bsky.social published three new poems in Quarterly West! 👏 buff.ly/l5J8oxt

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16h

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my gosh! I just saw that two of my poems are this month's Amuse-Bouche feature from @lunchticket.bsky.social !

Big thanks to the editors at @antiochmfa.bsky.social for giving these poems a home!

lunchticket.org/scientists-c...

Scientists Confirm Visceral Reactions to Graphic Images - Lunch Ticket

Two poems by Jill McCabe Johnson

lunchticket.org

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16h

These are so good. Especially loved "Simply Horrific."

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

I have four new poems in the newest 'censorship' issue of The Indianapolis Review

Here's one of them

theindianapolisreview.com

Silent America

The superstitious
lamb asks
for more
bricks.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 18h

It's GWA-de-loop, not gwa-da-LOO-pay.

Now guess where I'm from.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 1d

"Have You Ever Seen a Whale"
a typewriter poem
by Lizzie Bourne
from Argyle Night Market:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7968409...

poemswhileyouwait

"Have You Ever Seen a Whale" by Lizzie Bourne -- Argyle Night Market, 8.14.25

poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 1d

“You were wasted on this world.” A poem by Natalie Shapero.

How'd You Get This Number

I couldn't stomach a movie about it, after
it happened to me—that's why I make lists
of plausible additional upcoming shocks,
then scramble to watch all films on these subjects
while I still find them fun. You remember the one
with the woman walking forever in winter?
Everyone loves that actor, but they found the plotting
shoddy and too spare. They said she was
wasted on that role. Like you were wasted

on this world—I'm the real one who belongs here,
who suits its din and disuse.
After you’d gone, I prayed for myself
to outdo my prior low era, so that I could feel
solace at the thought of how you never
lived to see it. I tithed, I ignited
a votive. I did not have to wait long.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

The moon in Sacramento is lit tonight

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2d

A successful moment of poetry won't let you calculate anything, for as long as it lasts, it is a mental force that silences all other mental forces.

-- Clive James

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

Boo

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah it was a strange night.

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 2d

Oh we're fine & thankfully seems nobody died in this. Could have been worse. No cars hit but the occupants of the helicopter taken to the hospital. It was about half mile down from our house.