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Things I'd like to maybe start a Kickstarter for:

A big bed of sesame seeds build in a storefront window, whose window is covered in reflective paper, in which I can lay down to rest my wear bones for a bit and napsnack my way back out into the world cocoon style.
Visa fees for every Muslim in the world to come to the US mostly because it would be way more peaceful likely although we'd have to have a conversation about the necessity of bacon.
Someone who is paid CEO-level salary + great bennies just to follow me around (union workday hours is cool) and run my feet and legs and shoulders and hands and back and basically all of my body parts as needed like always.
Honeybee husbandry.
Mandatory, heavily stipended coursework for the entire western world on gaining an understanding of, and the language for, a real conversation on race, class, culture, gender, history, and the end of capital. With cookies and juice.
That orgasm machine from that Woody Allen movie from when he made funny movies before he was a known sexual predator. I don't know that I need to raise funds for mass production. I basically just need one and a backup.
One more orgasm machine to rent-out by the minute because then I'd never have to crowdfund anything ever again.
An American Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Televised live with social media access points ala periscope, twitter, etc.
Basically just more cats.

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Portland, Ore. 16.9.16 :: Beneath the fractured light of a harvest moon eclipse, black|bodies descend into PICA's Time Based Art Festival and radiate poetry/light.

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Now Gramming:

A li’l #bathroomselfie in advance of my #poetry reading at @uhmanoa — so excited to hear the students read too! ❤️🙌🏾❤️

Me: OH, THEY’VE BEEN MAKING MESSAGE-Ts SINCE THE DAWN OF WESTERN-CIV?! #stuffImissed

A few small needful facts: 1. Home girl just made me the best mango margarita I’ve ever had. 2. The moon is doing all the things tonight, and also all week. 3. Ross Gay’s “A Small Needful Fact” was not only the poem I needed today, the poem that (along with some Warsan Shire, some Edwidge Danticat, some June Jordan, some Maxine Hong Kingston) helped me set this workshop on fire today, but also remains a poem I need for like actual life. Thanks for that, Ross. 3. If you haven’t gotten at my Restorative // Alchemical Poetics Workshop for you and/or your students: STOP TRIPPIN & BOOK THAT SHIT. 4. I forgot. 5. Somehow I’m between a Saks Fifth Avenue and the truth. #ugh-the-me’est. 6. To my right, @clairevayewatkins’ “watching boys do stuff” is playing itself out at this exact and very moment pero en espanol. 6. Are we still using numbers? 7. Margarita.

We good.

Oh yeah and as this is the SIXTH room in which I’ve resided in the last seven days or so ... 🤭 ... Look! Hotel art! Which will never cease to _____________ me. 😬🧣

Now Tweeting:

A li’l #bathroomselfie in advance of my #poetry reading at uhmanoa — so excited to hear the students read too! ❤️🙌🏾… https://t.co/ktu4RBvxVz
about 4 hours ago
Last night in Hawaii — about to head to UH Manoa to read some poems and thangs — come thru for words and magic!
about 5 hours ago
I mostly just wanna pack the Surf Channel into my suitcase and sneak it back onto the “mainland” with me.
about 7 hours ago
RT @cmclymer: Anthony Scaramucci was White House Communications Director for approx. 10 days and is still being booked for commen… https://t.co/R516JsvGVt
about 8 hours ago
fwiw yup I’m still in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and nope not checking email 🤷🏾‍♀️
about 8 hours ago

Lighting up the night on Broadway!

What a great night.

January 25, 2016

Thanks to Poets on Broadway, Kevin Craft, David Biespiel, and the folks at Antoinette Hatfield Hall--and EVERYONE who came out tonight! What fun. What good times. What great drinks. What poetry. #swoon