C.G. Drews - @PaperFury: don't let your book scare you 🤨🙌🏻 you scare it. Threaten it with wingdings font. Ominously flirt with another manuscript to make it jealous. Let that character go unhinged. Type "looks cute might delete later" and watch your book sweat.

today's bird-site gem:
Rhys Tranter - @RhysTranter: “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
—
Frida Kahlo

mood #cosopoetry:
eileen chengyin chow - @chowleen: The light has changed;
middle C is tuned darker now.
And the songs of morning sound over-rehearsed. —

This is the light of autumn, not the light of spring.
The light of autumn: you will not be spared.

-Louise Glück, "October" (Part 4)

friday #cosotechnology note:
waly - @literarymath: cant use github, i have commitment issues

some #cosopoetry from the bird-site:
Twila Newey - @motleybookshelf:
"I made so many notes today
in my mind—as if at backyard target practice;
—aiming sloppy at the heart of it in passing
hoping that something might stick, or transfer

but no—not without ink—"

@DSMPoet @MoistPoetry
<https://moistpoetryjournal.com/2022/10/03/ink/>

the sun continues to rise here in Central Texas (yay!):

reposted from a 2009-12-06 Tumblr blog, but still on point:
In a [letter to the New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2009/12/07/091207mama_mail4) on a review of a biography of Ayn Rand, Lisa Turner writes,

>[C]apitalism, in its most extreme form, is the mirror image of Communism—cold, inhuman, inhumane, intractably greedy, and full of contempt for the individual, as well as for societal ideals as a whole.

today’s #education op-ed: Jordan Ellenberg - @JSEllenberg: Explained in class today that delta means a small positive number you choose and epsilon means a small positive number your enemy chooses.

today's #cosopoetry fix:
Plague Poems - @PlaguePoems:

An apology,
to the friend who complained:

I know
that these silly poems are
repetitive
and repetitive not in a good way
but in my defense
this pandemic is also
repetitive
and repetitive not in a good way.

word-salad, insight, or both?
Erika Hall - @mulegirl: Design thinking is a process for manufacturing the illusion of deterministic innovation.
<https://twitter.com/mulegirl/status/1574527843400196096>

another nice bird-site bot:
gender of the day - @genderoftheday: Today's gender is none of your business.

Yoon Kim - @nicoscosc: “I think [the Sperm Whale’s] broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. … This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.”

#MelvilleMonday 🐳

today's #education gem from the bird:
Cat Sebastian - @CatSWrites: when a teacher says they have a rule because they're getting kids ready for the real world, it's literally never like that in the real world unless you work in the armed services or, like, a 1930s tin mine or something

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”

― Hilary Mantel

@MayaCPopa <<https://twitter.com/MayaCPopa/status/1573332500008652803>>
#cosopoetry

The Examination by Richard Wehrman <http://www.richardwehrman.com/> #cosopoetry

sometimes a (#cosopoetry) poem must be seen in order to be heard:

some #cosopoetry from the bird-site:

today's gem from the bird-site:
Asiya Miya - @AsiyaMiya: "In life, you have to avoid three geometric figures: vicious circles, love triangles and overly square minds."

Mario Benedetti, The Truce from Quotomania ▶️
https://quotomania.simplecast.com/episodes/quotomania-066-mario-benedetti

today's bird-site gem:
Sakshi Narula - @mssakshinarula: Somedays only musicians and poets keep us alive.