Joseph Massey
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And it's not the kind of behavior I ever expected from poets. Growing up and reading poetry, reading Rimbaud and Blake and et cetera, I mean, these people were outliers. They were rebels, right? They weren't just towing the line. And poets these days, like every other artist in every other field, they seem to just tow the line to keep the federal, to keep the grand money coming.
And it's not the kind of behavior I ever expected from poets. Growing up and reading poetry, reading Rimbaud and Blake and et cetera, I mean, these people were outliers. They were rebels, right? They weren't just towing the line. And poets these days, like every other artist in every other field, they seem to just tow the line to keep the federal, to keep the grand money coming.
Yes, yeah, yeah. And I wonder what percentage of them just do it to keep themselves out of the line of fire, you know?
Yes, yeah, yeah. And I wonder what percentage of them just do it to keep themselves out of the line of fire, you know?
Yes, yeah, yeah. And I wonder what percentage of them just do it to keep themselves out of the line of fire, you know?
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I know. There's apparently a big cancellation going on right now. I won't say any details, but it's just as ugly as it was in 2018. And so I realized a year or two after the cancellation started that I wasn't going to be allowed back. And I'm going to have to do it myself. And so this book and the prior two books, three books are published under my own imprint.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I know. There's apparently a big cancellation going on right now. I won't say any details, but it's just as ugly as it was in 2018. And so I realized a year or two after the cancellation started that I wasn't going to be allowed back. And I'm going to have to do it myself. And so this book and the prior two books, three books are published under my own imprint.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I know. There's apparently a big cancellation going on right now. I won't say any details, but it's just as ugly as it was in 2018. And so I realized a year or two after the cancellation started that I wasn't going to be allowed back. And I'm going to have to do it myself. And so this book and the prior two books, three books are published under my own imprint.
And so they can't cancel me. They can't pull my book because they think I'm a fascist or the poet laureate of white people.
And so they can't cancel me. They can't pull my book because they think I'm a fascist or the poet laureate of white people.
And so they can't cancel me. They can't pull my book because they think I'm a fascist or the poet laureate of white people.
It does drive them crazy. Yeah. And I can't say I mind.
It does drive them crazy. Yeah. And I can't say I mind.
It does drive them crazy. Yeah. And I can't say I mind.
Well, I would like to take the number one spot from Maria Shriver. Maria Shriver has a book of poetry out and it's abysmal. She's not a poet. She's not a poet. She could have not broken the lines up and it would have been probably maybe a better book, but she's not a poet.
Well, I would like to take the number one spot from Maria Shriver. Maria Shriver has a book of poetry out and it's abysmal. She's not a poet. She's not a poet. She could have not broken the lines up and it would have been probably maybe a better book, but she's not a poet.
Well, I would like to take the number one spot from Maria Shriver. Maria Shriver has a book of poetry out and it's abysmal. She's not a poet. She's not a poet. She could have not broken the lines up and it would have been probably maybe a better book, but she's not a poet.
I should take that spot.
I should take that spot.
I should take that spot.