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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 17h

Hell, in case you are wondering, is reading yourself over and over. That is the postmortem fate of all poets who end up there for many reasons, the most egregious of which is having troubled good people’s sleep with verses." A preview for my Selected Poems project. First reply.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations, Anne Carson. James Laughlin sent us your early poems to publish in Exquisite Corpse. Love them and still do

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"But how far? But until when? The time has come to undo our previous 'repairs'; to free ourselves from the 'freedoms' that have elevated us to the point where we’re now floating in the air. The time has come to underdevelop ourselves." Calin-Andrei Mihailescu on undoing self-help. First reply.

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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

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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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