Saturday, August 8, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Gotta Have Friends Edition

1. friends who are occasionally willing to tell you what you want to hear as long as they make it clear they are lying to you
2. friends who shoot straight
3. and have your back
4. and hold you well
5. and love you

Friday, August 7, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Comedy Friday Edition

1. nieces and nephews who text hilarious things to me
2. how proud I am of them*
3. running gags
4. when someone tells a joke and you know it's going to be a running gag
5. coping mechanisms

*for their capacity for humor, but also as human beings

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Summer Thursday Edition

1. iced coffee
2. Gracie sleeping with just her face in a sunny spot
3. bees
4. tomatoes
5. cucumbers

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Midweek Break Edition

1. dinner and a movie with your love
2. Swedish fish
3. waking up in the morning to find the humidity broke overnight
4. maybe finally making yourself go grocery shopping
5. skirt weather*

*it's always skirt weather

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Poeting Edition

1. writing poems*
2. serial revising
3. reading things out loud
4. writing interviews with fun questions
5. writing interviews with really well thought-out questions

*So. Many. Poems

Monday, August 3, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Avoiding Errands Edition

1. finally waking up feeling like yourself
2. having poet friends you love so much that coming back into the real world feels like scuba diving, even though you love your real world, too
3. grapes*
4. not going to the grocery store
5. having the option of not going to the grocery store

*theoretical, as they would require a trip to the grocery store

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Five Things that Don't Suck, Sunday Morning Edition

1. getting the political into my poems in a way that feels satisfying to me
2. the balance of subtlety and heat
3. putting shame on the shoulders where it belongs
4. letting it sit there even if/when it's uncomfortable
5. my own damn voice