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PS Conway

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2x Pushcart Nominee; Poet-in-Residence @ The Fictional Café 🥂 “Life Sucks” humor: https://a.co/d/0qHin5u 🤣 “Echoes Lost in Stars” poetry: https://a.co/d/76gM1Rt ☘️ Website: PSConway.com 🔗: linktr.ee/psconway

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · Mar 26

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“Life Sucks” doesn't suck.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

- Hilarious, #satirical, and deeply human - like Monty Python with a colonoscopy.

- A must-read for anyone just in need of a damn good #laugh.

- Darkly #funny, brutally honest, and weirdly comforting.

Buy here: a.co/d/bX0YQE0
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#booksky #writingcommunity

Life Sucks is snort out loud funny. Nothing is sacred.

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 5h

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i found Javier
crying on the stoop,
his father
was taken by ICE today.

the bruises on his cheek:
proof of resistance

his mother’s sobs
from their apartment upstairs:
proof of love

ash drifted down the block
from the bonfire
of green cards
burning in the park.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 16h

So appreciate that!! Thank you 💙🙏🏻

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 16h

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 1d

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🙏🏻🥂

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 1d

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 1d

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we’ve worn out every argument,
let logic run to rust

yet between what we meant,
the heat of what we said,

there is the hope
that love survives each clash,
forgives each cruelty -

that our blades stay sheathed,
all our truces
hold for today.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!! 🙏🏻🌹🥂

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 2d

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i grow by the brook
it sings to me
but has forgotten my name

time has forgotten
me
us
you

and there is a thirst
no song can slake

the sun warms me
i associate that with love
or its memory

when there was
you.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! 💙

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much 💙🙏🏻

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 3d

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bluebells ring faint
‘long the forest's edge
adrift in pollen & ache

you are present
in an oleander breeze
laughing at how we cannot
cast shadows

i advert to a blackbird’s song
she beckons me
to the evergloom
'neath the birches

where my shadow
withdrew, long ago
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much 🙏🏻🥂

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 🙏🏻

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!! 🙏🏻🍷

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 4d

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 4d

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we whispered
little white lies
never fearing
the consequence
of accumulation

pulled tight
like a sheet on a bed
too cold to share

only later
did we learn
truth is elastic:
it stretches beautifully -
right before it breaks
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 5d

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fruit grows
in your sacred orchard
oh, to taste its nectar…

to feel its juice
run down my chin
sweet against my skin
sticky and blasphemous

wipe the pulp from my lips
savor its thickness

feral and alive
to know you deep inside
and all your unholy
secrets.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much 🙏🏻🥂

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 6d

I appreciate the kind words! Thank you 🙏🏻🌹

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 6d

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i am thirsty
to drink from your stream
though its banks
are dry and bitter.

deep calls to deep,
i seek your light.

outside this oasis of mind,
i am reminded of the time
we found Elijah’s ghost
curled asleep beneath juniper,

the wind hissing,
rest.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 6d

I’m honored - thank YOU🙏🏻🍷

PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 7d

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banshees keen
down the coast
your ship now lost
in a horizon line blur

i tie a white ribbon
‘round a branch of
the windswept hawthorn

careful
not to draw blood
tears must be enough
for today
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 8d

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you are the firmament
on which i lay
chaos contained -
stifling in your godly way

i am the pinpricks
that reveal the white
interred beneath your darkness
seeking to unmake you

a conundrum of conscience:
to tolerate such comity
or be the entropy
i was born to be
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 9d

So appreciated! Thank you

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