Richard Epstein
@rhepstein.bsky.social
Denver poet. Evidence at rhepoems.blogspot.com.
Bitter cold here, too, but mostly I'm just annoyed.
January 23, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Bitter cold here, too, but mostly I'm just annoyed.
The other day I caught my pen refilling itself. Who knows what and to whom it had been writing?
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
The other day I caught my pen refilling itself. Who knows what and to whom it had been writing?
That seems right to me. He possessed less than average intelligence to begin with, and he is now deep into the sere and yellow leaf. The media should choose a single reporter to attend his public utterances and report on them collectively.
January 22, 2026 at 11:49 AM
That seems right to me. He possessed less than average intelligence to begin with, and he is now deep into the sere and yellow leaf. The media should choose a single reporter to attend his public utterances and report on them collectively.
Seems likely to involve the transmission of secret, probably coded, messages concealed in the books.
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Seems likely to involve the transmission of secret, probably coded, messages concealed in the books.
I was thinking about how SNL treated Gerald Ford. Imagine what they'd have done with Trump.
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I was thinking about how SNL treated Gerald Ford. Imagine what they'd have done with Trump.
i wish you well in your quest for dominion, but it seems a bit like Lichtenstein trying to conquer Monaco.
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
i wish you well in your quest for dominion, but it seems a bit like Lichtenstein trying to conquer Monaco.
We solved that by buying a house in an Historical Preservation District. The good news was that Denver isn't that old a town, so a house can qualify w/o being decrepit or decaying.
January 19, 2026 at 11:36 AM
We solved that by buying a house in an Historical Preservation District. The good news was that Denver isn't that old a town, so a house can qualify w/o being decrepit or decaying.
Hmm. Did Roger Zelazny write any mysteries?
January 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Hmm. Did Roger Zelazny write any mysteries?
What would Billy Joe Royal say?
January 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
What would Billy Joe Royal say?
—Hurry up!
—Hold your horses. I'll be there in seven grains of sand.
—Hold your horses. I'll be there in seven grains of sand.
January 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM
—Hurry up!
—Hold your horses. I'll be there in seven grains of sand.
—Hold your horses. I'll be there in seven grains of sand.
I'm shocked to learn the people didn't speak
In verse as blank as any I can write.
Is free verse what they used? How radical
The peasant life, what Whitmans they all were.
In verse as blank as any I can write.
Is free verse what they used? How radical
The peasant life, what Whitmans they all were.
January 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I'm shocked to learn the people didn't speak
In verse as blank as any I can write.
Is free verse what they used? How radical
The peasant life, what Whitmans they all were.
In verse as blank as any I can write.
Is free verse what they used? How radical
The peasant life, what Whitmans they all were.
I recommend you spend some time with Raymond Chandler or Ace Atkins. Think of it as a purge or a medical mudbath.
January 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I recommend you spend some time with Raymond Chandler or Ace Atkins. Think of it as a purge or a medical mudbath.
It's got to be the paranomasia.
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
It's got to be the paranomasia.
Your point is well taken, and your evidence persuasive, but it's still hard to take seriously conversations about The Conquest of Greenland.
January 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Your point is well taken, and your evidence persuasive, but it's still hard to take seriously conversations about The Conquest of Greenland.
I am surprised that I've never seen a soup comercial using the line "'Tis a consommé devoutly to be wished."
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
I am surprised that I've never seen a soup comercial using the line "'Tis a consommé devoutly to be wished."
I read "Dieter Rams" as "rams who diet" and spent way too much time trying to reorient myself.
January 13, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I read "Dieter Rams" as "rams who diet" and spent way too much time trying to reorient myself.
This got me thinking about the characterizations of me I am least likely to encounter. I settled on "dandy."
January 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This got me thinking about the characterizations of me I am least likely to encounter. I settled on "dandy."
Easy for you to say, answered the ottoman.
January 12, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Easy for you to say, answered the ottoman.