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Consequence makes meaning Forges virgin norms Consequence makes action & so the ego forms Awareness is to freedom As freedom is to choice Choice is to laughter As laughter is to voice My laughter, my ...

January 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM

I Am Kentucky

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Read this week’s poem “Consequences” here:

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Consequences

A smile and a veil won't cut it A knowing look Shot over the shoulder of the eldest child Is worth the last desperate backwards-falling shotgun blast that it is Not enough Like all the world contained...

December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Read this week’s poem “Talk” here:

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Talk

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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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My Supernatural

The snow began to fall Backwards in time And I Had a list Names of the friendly My supernatural Do they know it? Do they know they get me high? I know This This is what I found When out the door I bou...

Full of blood Sight unseen I wait to sneak attack you Attach to you Hopefully From beneath a crack in the hardwood I wait Under the scuffed and carefree shoes Of the dancers The forgetters Seeming lik...

December 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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This week’s poem, entitled “Blood”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/blood

Blood

December 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM

I Am Kentucky

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A new song, for you, about an unexpected gift from a person near the tragic end of their life:

open.spotify.com/track/6qi06B...

Pink Volleyball

I am old Like the pen I flow in and out of time Like the pen Love is time bent* Like the pen Synthetic synthesization of soluble synapses Is what drives me I don't reach toward the light I am the ligh...

December 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM

I Am Kentucky

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This week’s poem:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/word-light...

Word Light Me

She spoke to Him and He ceased to breathe Instantly He couldnt breathe No wait He said to Himself I dont breathe as She speaks to me I dont need to The breath and bread of life is Her words All that i...

November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM

I Am Kentucky

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This week’s poem is entitled “Inevitolution”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/inevitolut...

Inevitolution

Kentucky - Musical Houseboat Tour of the Rideau Canal

November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM

I Am Kentucky

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Today marks the release of my first tour documentary! You can watch the 45 minute film here on my YouTube channel:

youtu.be/hVBd1Nzx8xc?...

YouTube video by I Am Kentucky

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November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM

I Am Kentucky

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This week’s poem is called “Force Forces”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/force-forces

Force Forces

I want to organize Force forces to capitulate I want to see Flower, Dinosaur, and Kitty-Kat Commanding from the top of Heaven's Gate I want sweet deriders to hide inside from us Scholastic Zen give up...

The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 7

November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM

I Am Kentucky

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Part 7 of “The Shape Of Things To Come” is out this morning:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/the-shape-...

It would be foolish to speak for the Women They will speak for themselves In the garden at night beyond the black gate attached to no fence If The Man and the Boy Can endure the fever and the fear For...

November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM

I Am Kentucky

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My weekly poem (from Saturday), entitled “November”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/goodnight-...

Goodnight for Tonight

or "The 11th Hour"

I went to bed satisfied Rare In my sleep I had a dream Two boys 11 and 10 Their Father gone Mother dying The time left was for important questions only For some reason They needed me Mother acquiesced...

November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM

I Am Kentucky

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This week’s poem, on Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/iamkentu...

10 and 11

October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM

I Am Kentucky

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New song out today - Born American

open.spotify.com/track/1Cd149...

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The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 6

October 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM

I Am Kentucky

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This week’s poem, Part 6 of The Shape Of Things To Come:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/the-shape-...

Spoken: Dad what do you think will happen if we get up and try to walk at night and go through the open black steel gate attached to no fence? All things are open now Relationship is singularity Commu...

Prayers for my daughters Prayers for my daughters Fathers without sin Make Girls without Fathers Baptize the water Baptize the water When Fathers invent everything Dry go the Daughters Lambs to the sl...

October 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM

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October 20th, 2025

October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM

I Am Kentucky

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This week’s poem on Substack:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/my-daughters

My Daughters

For the past five weeks, I’ve been writing an epic in instalments.

October 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Coming soon……

October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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Here is this week’s poem, entitled “Perfect Composure”

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/perfect-co...

Perfect Composure

The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 5

October 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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Here is Part 5 of my latest poetry work, “The Shape Of Things To Come”. The other 4 parts are all on my Substack preceding Part 5:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/the-shape-...

Here is what used to exist in the place where the Men now only love the Boys Kick-flips and choke-holds Heads smashed against curbs in parking lots outside bars Televised beatings in cages Murder (whe...

September 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM

I Am Kentucky

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A song I released September 8th, in honour of a young man in our town, Archer. May he live forever now:

open.spotify.com/track/33ufpC...

#archer #thearcher #thearchers

The Archer

The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 4

September 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM

I Am Kentucky

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Here is Part 4 of my latest work “The Shape Of Things To Come”:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/the-shape-...

Here is how it works When the fever and the fear come In near-star dark With dusk glooming up on the men and the boys Leaves of trees go completely still And just as the Earth and all things since the...

The Shape Of Things To Come: Part 3

September 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM

I Am Kentucky

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Part three of “The Shape Of Things To Come” from my weekly Substack post:

iamkentucky.substack.com/p/the-shape-...

Loss relinquished but for the disappeared women Confusion midwifed away Competitions defeat echoes sine waves Tangerines in the garden Tangents spun golden from the circle One thing left to know One t...

September 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM

I Am Kentucky

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With the support of Sarah and Nathan, Archer’s parents, and in accordance with their wishes, we released a new song this morning called The Archer that is dedicated to their beautiful and eternal son. I wrote and recorded the song so that he will live forever in it:

open.spotify.com/album/4NPoav...

The Archer