Joseph Massey
@jmasseypoet
Poet. Writer. Uncancelled. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty…” My newsletter: https://www.poetrydispatches.com/ My new book: https://a.co/d/dT5vW7f
I had a wonderful time talking to @megynkelly today as I launched my new book out into the world. She’s been such a friend to my work, and her audience is so loyal. I’m blessed. America Is the Poem is now available! Please consider checking it out!
His voice transports me to many different points in my childhood, as well as certain melodies in his songs—instant bittersweet recall. It doesn’t matter if I’m a fan or not. Phil Collins is an indelible part of the cultural landscape, and the soundtrack to countless memories.
Phil Collins is in hospice. 😢 He was such an amazing songwriter. Please, Gen Xers can’t take anymore loss. My son used to sing this to me when he was a toddler. He loved the Tarzan movie.
Icon of the Theotokos Sorrowing, Monastery Esphigmenou, Mount Athos
I’m old enough to remember what it was like to live an analog existence. My summers were spent sitting at a desk in front of a window in a trailer park in Dover, Delaware. I listened to talk radio constantly on a small clock radio on the desk. And I had a typewriter. And piles…
The only way to live without checking out completely is to actively manage the portfolio of scandals you allow yourself to be outraged about. Otherwise, the only way to preserve your soul and sanity amid this deluge is to adopt a go-live-in-the-woods kind of total detachment.
I didn’t have any healthy male role models when I was a kid other than Mr. Rogers and Hulk Hogan. I say that with all sincerity. “To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins, and you will never go wrong.” RIP Hulk!
REST IN PEACE, Hulk Hogan! A true American patriot! His epic speech backing President Trump at the RNC, just days after Trump was SH0T, will go down in history! 🇺🇸
Most people have a nightstand. I have a night table to accommodate the book load, and my own librarian in a tuxedo. Goodnight.
St Michael the archangel, defend us in battle!
Tulsi Gabbard makes me proud to be an American and a supporter of President Trump. She’s a warrior. We desperately need her example of patriotic courage — it’s extremely rare.
This is the miserable reality transhumanist tech overlords want for you. You will be numb; you will be disconnected; you will be easily controlled — all for their tacky geek version of totalitarianism.
Beauty, objective truth, and faith in a reality incomprehensibly greater than the material world — these are the antidotes to despair and all forms of existential pain. Fleeting, illusory pleasures won’t cut it, but the world wants to hypnotize you into believing otherwise.
Blessed feast of Mary Magdalene, patron saint of converts and contemplatives (‘The First Meeting of Christ and Mary Magdalene’, Henryk Siemiradzki, 1873)
At the gate of a deserted house, A cicada is crying in the rays Of the evening sun. —Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)
Most handsome cat in the United States of America, Jarvis Massey.
My day is made. Hell, my whole week. Why? My nutrition coach commended me on my fiber intake.
I’m happy to have a poem in the new Modern Haiku anthology, Haiku 21.2. Haiku 21 was a major gathering of English haiku, and this is the sequel. Anyone interested in the form would enjoy both anthologies.
Queen Anne’s lace leans into its own shadow in an alley.
