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Andrei Codrescu

@andreicodrescu.bsky.social
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My new book, How To Live Under Fascism: New Poems and Photos out now (tinyurl.com/How-To-Live-Under-Fasci…)

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"We discuss synchronicity as the status quo of matter. Things that are statistically improbable occur continuously. Birds appreciate that, as do trees and other things that don’t use language." On Umberto Saba, birds, and one of my best friends. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"'Sanity' was born at the same time as language. It was a younger sibling of language that was needed for eons until its older kin put the quotes on it. It was a struggle for language to dominate its sibling, or even find a name for it." On the fugitive of Sanity. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Beware of style because it’s a pattern, and a pattern is A.I. food. Not surprisingly, A.I. identifiers mistake human work as A.I. produced if it is created in a recognizable style." On Style, A.I., and the Dada solution. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"The bartender hasn’t taken a shower in a year. He stinks. His name is Musk. And he doesn’t card anybody with cash for a beer." Satan, Hitler, Meta, Amazon and Anthropic Walk Into a Bar. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"In the small circles where we exist for a firefly blip we long to grab that spider thread to swing to a hopefully larger circle. This is what poetry does: longs for the thread and swings from it into the next circle." On Stephen Petroff, the latest addition to my inner-pantheon. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"It is not too late, my psychology professor points out, to think of Cain and Abel in the double pram, being pushed fast first by a chain-smoking Eve, and then a still-dizzy postcoital Adam." The sociology of Pram culture. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"You can’t ask a sane citizen to choose between gasoline and Proust. Unless they are like me, a nondriver, who thinks Proust is better than fossil fuel, and yet prefers artery-clogging crisp bacon to a memory-opening madeleine. I’m not fit for any side of the culture wars. Culture Wars. First reply
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
All ideologies promote a false cure for malaise: optimism. Communism even made optimism compulsory, creating societies where every human was ill at ease. That was equality.The American Constitution was right to phrase its program as the search for happiness." An addendum to a classic. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"The firetrucks rip the air. Two women put their fingers in their ears. The rest of us are unfazed: we don’t hear anything, except the chunk of brain that falls off by itself at the high pitch." The soundtrack of NYC. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"In my opinion, the horses should stay on display, but all the men riding them should be melted. The horses are the real heroes of those wars. They have no idea why they are there, but they look great." David Franks died too young. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"He was stunned for a minute, then said, 'Where are you from?' I said, 'From Sibiu.' He said on the phone in the same language, 'Simona... you won’t believe it.' Then to me, 'I’m from Sibiu.'" The Snow Door. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"I had just gotten to the end of the street when I heard the little bookseller running and calling after me, 'Mister, mister...' I stopped. 'I can’t sell you that book, it’s my favorite.'" A tale of a walk. Today on my Substack.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"The nonhuman bodies called 'bodies' are related to the human body, but are not metaphors; they fold back and out of the human body but have a body-life of their own, distinct from the human and irreducible to it." An exploration of 16 Bodies. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Five Five Minute Eggs: for Allen Ginsburg on his 100th Birthday. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"The Egyptians did not extinguish fires, they only watched them rage, but cats leapt into fires with ferocious pleasure, and most of them made it undamaged on the other side, except the ones that burned." Petmaxxing in Ancient Egypt. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"That cycle of lost and found has ended. We will no longer find what we lost. Namely, the human who kept losing and finding. The human is lost and there is no way we are going to find it." On mice, cats, and my book "Bibliodeath." First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"Walking or running along perfect bodies were French bulldogs, Chow Chows, Afghan Hounds, Samoyeds, greyhounds, high-end poodles and terriers attached with silver gem-encrusted leashes to their owners’ supple wrists." New dog-walking fads. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The brilliant Plamen Arnaudov has resurrected corpse.org A miracle!
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"When we examine the genetic coils of our mortal flesh, we see that our fine pedigrees are forgeries; we are all mutts and rescue dogs." Today: an essay from Zen Master Richard Collins on attachment and the mythology of identity. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"And so the moral of this story is: you need to have a miserable childhood to have an interesting life, and fuck you, Trump, with your immigrant phobias." On a Great American Immigrant. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"I like a book that carries the dirty fingerprints of the people opening the book to read a line or two, ogle a picture, drip some croissant crumbles on it, and then put it back upside down on the shelf in the wrong alphabetical row.” Meeting a great American poet. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Announcing my new book, No Dog, a collection of 22 poems, will be available to order April 28th. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Eschatology -- the end of humans -- is conceptually and physically available. But ontology is verboten. Stories fascinated me, both the stories told and the stories lived. It is Spring now, so I should care again. This year, I don’t feel it." Human to AI. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"No trades go on in the soul-market these days. The devils get so many offers they now pay people to keep them. We are drowning in souls. Where they lived, there is boredom relieved only by blood-lust." The over-saturated Soul Market. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"With the simplicity and humor for which he is known, Borges replied: 'If it isn’t a joke, why not?' David assured him that he wasn’t joking, that he wanted the master’s autograph on his heart." On Borges, my friend David Franks, and filling in the value map. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"Trump’s ICE is sadly the worst dressed killer corps in history. They have now been ordered to American airports for the purpose of travelers to get used to them, and for killing people with accents." Fascist Fashion. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"The Trump family is planning a golf course and luxury apartments next to the ripest and stinkiest garbage dump in Transylvania. Finally." On Trumps in Transylvania. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Speechless in the burning fumes of stupidity launched into the eyes of the world by the No.1 American criminal and his coterie of idiot cannibals... Reading poems from my 2025 book, How To Live Under Fascism. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"The only things that people readily die for are nationalism and hunger. Both those conditions were present in Romania and in Iran. In the end, people hate bombs even more than hunger." Contemplating Romania and Iran. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"I saw a duck die on the Gowanus. First there were two, sluggishly trying to reach the canal wall. When I looked again there was only one, head leaning left, then it stopped and died." The Gowanus Canal. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"Every morning I lie awake trying to separate myself from the dark, like the way I’m trying to separate this book from the material of my life. Who are you, in particular, before you get up?" An excerpt from a novel in progress by a writer worth every word, Mike DeCapite. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Substack TV: TV is boring. Watching people talk is the most boring. not as interesting as killing alligators or being naked and afraid. Substack will end up selling merch. Smart writing won't matter: the medium is the message. Welcome to adding Substack of visual chewing gum.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"Trump is an ugly man. Inside, he is a cloaca of wormy resentments, putrid hatreds, swarming maggots, flesh-ripping visions of his real and imagined enemies, blood lust and a boundless craving for power. In short, the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch." On "Open" AI. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"My first big snow was in New York in 1967. I built a snowman with my neighbor and we made snow angels that filled up the minute we got up, and then we had a snowball fight in the middle of the street where no car was to be seen." The Snow door. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"If there was a trace of concern for people, it was dividing them into 'friends' and 'enemies' who, in some instances, Russia for example, were one and the same." Our 007 in Davos. First Reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"The machine isn’t just tanks and guns, like it was in the 20th century. It is also the fastest disinformation machine in a history that is falsified the moment it happens. Words and images change sides the second they are uttered." Missing Revolutions. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Revisiting the 2016 election: The Dada Show. Check first reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Valley of Christmas: a fairytale for children about the perils of screens. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"I used to be a run-of-the-mill paranoid American who believed quite rightly that power gives the rich license to steal, and that government was a cabal that built roads to keep the cars of the rich out of the mud." Paranoia. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Au Revoir Raison! New poetry--first reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
"Our mono-pictoral black & white world gave reluctant way to a serial picture world with hints of color in it. It wasn’t until I left Romania in 1965 that I realized that the world could be multi-imaged and color-explosive, and that people could actually wear unconstrained faces." On Photography.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Of meat I have no fear. I understand terrestrial animals. They are most like me. I prefer them cooked, covered in sauce and, I believe, happy to be chewed and swallowed." Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"The form of the poem should fit the subject: long fast lines, languorous jerky ones, or slow dark-syllabled half-sentences wrapped around domed Latinate dips and rises. Use the breath-measures that might have been those of your conceivers. One page, due Friday." Exercises for poets. Link below.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
"In 1990, I was on a panel in Wyoming. Our hosts presented every panelist with a chunk of the fallen Berlin Wall, rugged chunks of cement with an inch or so of rusted rebar sticking out. Pieces of the Berlin Wall were sought-after souvenirs." The ransacking of the White House. Link below.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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