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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My debut poetry collection is out now at Bottlecap Press! These are some of my favorite pieces from my life since college, and one of them contains the best bit of wordplay I've ever written - which is saying a lot. Pick up a copy at the link in the next post! 💜💜💜

Each of these poems was written in a place that no longer exists. From demolished music venues to the arms of vanished partners to the interiors of reforming vastus lateralis muscles, each of these poems serves as a snapshot of something that was deeply significant to T!K! Williams at a previous point in her life but, for better or for worse, had to be left behind.

This debut chapbook was born from upwards of a decade of internal dialogue about memory, sentiment and personal growth, but above all, it came from T!K!'s desire to keep her writing fun, even when its subjects weren't. Included here are some of her favorite poetic forms, the sestina and the villanelle, which both utilize repetition of words and lines to both force deeper thematic explanation and open new ways to play with language.

T!K! Williams (she/they) is a poet and hopeless music enthusiast based in Indiana. She writes from the intersections of trans identity, disability, autism and faith, even if she doesn't quite know where those things come from yet. Her work can be found in Mania Magazine, Poetries in English, Transients Magazine, and JAKE!, and she can be found trying to talk to the deer in the nearest forest.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

First sonnet in a while, inspired by Diane Seuss

My doctor told me I needed sodium like I needed salvation,
to at least aim for twice the daily amount in order to remember what
normal meant, but knowing about something and being able
to rest in it are very different states of being. After
the appointment, and after the next appointment and the next appointment,
I packed my bags full of peppercorns and fennel seed and
started walking, and on my way the oceans parted and the dead
came back to life, whether or not that was better for any of them.
I am tending the pillars outside Sodom. I am seasoning the pickled
ground of Gomorrah. I am trying to sustain myself on tombs
whose passages I never cleared but whose traps can reach
out their gleaming, bitter hands and know that I will meet them.
In this way my ambitions are lethal, and I am still a child, and I am left
scraping small crystals from the palms of someone who can only look back.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

@warrocketajax.com thought y'all would be amused that the thanos-copter is about to be an official magic the gathering card

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Watched R100 yesterday and I can confidently say that more movies should be bold enough to fix all their main male characters' problems by getting him pregnant

Seven Japanese women in leather bdsm outfits standing in a line before a red curtain.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sat down and tried to write a sonnet like Dianne Seuss. I think I failed at that pretty spectacularly but I still really like this one on its own merits. I'm still trying to get a better feel for sonnets so it was a good exercise.

My doctor told me I needed sodium like I needed air,
to at least aim for twice the daily limit in order to remember what
normal meant, but knowing about something and being able
to rest in it are very different states of being. After
the appointment, and after the next appointment and the next appointment,
I packed my bags full of peppercorns and fennel seed and
started walking, and on my way the oceans parted and the dead
came back to life, whether or not that was better for any of them.
I am tending the pillars outside Sodom. I am seasoning the pickled
ground of Golgotha. I am trying to sustain myself on tombs
whose passages I never cleared but whose traps can reach
out their gleaming, bitter hands and know that I will meet them.
In this way my ambitions are lethal, and I am still a child, and I am left
scraping small crystals from the palms of someone who can only look back.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

What if I started posting poems again

Starting today, I stand past the edge of path,
accruing small debts to gravity.
I have studied release before,
a body ago,
and I was left ruined in the pursuit
of something that even now I still
reach for, even if I do so in a safer,
more learned way,
with other hands reaching with me.

If my body is a machine, even if it breaks
or slows now, I have still spent half my life
in perpetual motion, gently grasping my problems
and trying to find the right place
to let them fall
and this
isn’t very different
if I don’t
start thinking about it.

I am a non-Newtonian fluid, and I
am not under new pressures,
no matter how flattened
and spread thin I find myself.
But, like me, my muscles
have lost their memory, and none of us
can remember the correct
amount of force to apply,
barely aware yet
of the freedom this will give us.

I respond in kind, in all the ways
that I can. I break
and I devour. I support
and I envelop. I I struggle
and I love. I struggle
and I fall. I struggle
and I love.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Vial of Bones Zine is open for submissions for our AI-themed issue!!

The following text above a static background and a metallic hand giving a peace sign: SUBS OPEN - OUTVIE THE AI - DEADLINE APRIL 30TH - VIALOFBONES.WORDPRESS.COM

Vial of Bones is a literary zine highlighting the experimental and bizarre. Our new theme is: OUTVIE THE AΙ.

What is individualism in the face of ai? Vial of Bones asks you to out-ai the ai. We want writing and art that's ai soup on steroids. Your memest of memes. Your digital bizarro incomprehensibles. To create the most nonsensical sense there could ever non!

NOTE: usage of actual Ai isn't allowed. We want everyone to have fun trying out this strange and goofy theme call :)

#cyberpunk #openforsubmissions #literaryfiction #deadinternettheory

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

My arm feel asleep 7 minutes ago

A cat with thick, soft fur using T!K!'s arm as a pillow

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Busy weekend! I think the Rei is my new biggest piece.

Perler bead models of Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion, the MENACING sound effect from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and the photo of Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah HELL YEAH

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Pulmonary function test's probably the hardest thing I've ever done but the path to a long COVID diagnosis has started. I'm so fuckin tired, man. I make jokes but I'm so so tired.

White trans woman sitting in a clear plastic box biting and breathing into a nozzle to measure the capacity and strength of her lungs.

TK showing her Holter monitor, a small black device attached with glue to her chest.

An Albuterol inhaler with a capsule larger than it is attached to it, to concentrate the delivery of the bronchodialator.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Not the strangest collab I've seen today though, I'm befuddled to say

Saudi Arabia asks Hans Zimmer to rework national anthem.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Two recent workshop pieces I've been working on for a few weeks

Sometimes, the phoenix comes back
with extra wings, or a beak
evolved to catch different kinds
of prey.

No matter how long I watch it,
after the embers
have cooled into a nest,
it tries to fly again, despite
these new abstractions.

An interrupted pattern
a foggy muscle memory
an plea to move
like it always had. Sometimes
it dies in the attempt.

Sometimes its feathers
shine green or blue
when it rises again.

Sometimes, the phoenix comes back
with baby’s hands for talons,
or a tail so long, you could write
on its feathers every single adaptation
it didn’t bring back from the grave.

A treasure trove of carbon
waits for you in the iron grip
of a summer night.

Until now the hands were yours,
until now they held you
like the sky holds clouds, together
with the oasis of a solid edge.
Now they turn your pliant space
and invite you to sensation.

You still know. That
can’t be taken. The knowledge
is your image, making yourself
even as you bargain with the air
you shove aside.
Call it Grace. Call it Anachronism.
All the world’s billions and billions of years
came to a head and called itself
Child, like a rainbow’s waves
being bent to clear light. But
you still had to learn
the safe ways
to let all the red inside you
out.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Blank verse practice from last week

The first breath of the cold is a relief,
a wake-up call for all the parts of me
that haven't shucked their heavy blankets yet.
The furnace stokes itself these recent years,
or at the very least, the tongues of flame
know when to still their preaching, let the coals
inch closer, make more shadows in their light.
It all continues burning, even with
a congregation that it must consume.
Eventually (though likely sooner now),
that great hot maw will need a hearty meal,
will need a body with its spark skin close
to toss in something strong and porous, then
retreat because the danger draws too near.
I give it extra air, that much is true,
but after long enough a vacuum forms
and pulls the edges of me tighter in.
Controlled environments I've got in spades,
but I am not one – luckily, the rest
know where to find me when they need some heat.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Gustave Doré (1855) // Rhea Ripley challenges Bianca Belair to a Test of Strength, NXT (2019)

Woodcut illustration of a man in a red robe struggling against being held back by a winged angel

Rhea Ripley grabs Bianca Belair's hand in the air and prepares to grapple her.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

[steely dan voice] 🎶I cried when I pet this cat🎶

Picture of a grey cat looking to the left side of the camera with very dilated eyes about to enjoy some scritches

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Got all - literally all - of my old poetry out last night. I think I'm gonna spend a month each going through them and see...what I was writing about before I knew I was queer and disabled and autistic lmao

Eleven pads of white & yellow legal paper, dated approximately 2007-2016

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Could not be more excited to start a new year with a double pub. Links to the pieces in the thread!

Two Japanese professional wrestlers grabbing a third's ass cheeks. The caption announces the publication of two of my poems on the same day.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

T-1 hour until publication day

Autism creature with eyes even bigger than usual blushing and looking at a laptop screen. The laptop's back is to us.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Damn I'd forgotten how much I missed Oronamin C! This was my greatest find last time I was there. Tasted like a Werther's original & came out of the vending machine heated up.

Morinaga's famous "hot pancake milkshake" canned drink from a vending machine in Japan.

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

COMING SOON TO SEVERAL SHINY RECTANGLES NEAR YOU: BARELY HUMAN BY T!K! WILLIAMS IN DOG TEETH LIT!!!

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"the autism tax isn't real & can't hurt or financially impact me" The autism tax:

A white woman's hand holding 5 damn nail clippers

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Anybody wanna buy the 80 pounds of bulk magic cards that I just finished sorting

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Gonna try keeping track of what I'm listening to the most week-to-week: 1. Monika Roscher Bigband - Witchy Activities and the Maple Death 2) Hitsujibungaku - Our Hope 3 - Mon Laferte - Autopoiética 4: Yugo Kanno - Golden Wind Vol.1 Overture

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Tonkey Kong @cheatcommando.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

"What did you do at work today T!K!?" Well,

TK's hand holding a copy of Sarah Ruden's translation of the Gospels, and a Nintendo switch with Persona 5 Royal displayed on the screen.

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