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davidrogersbooks.wordpress.com. Writer. Poet. Reader. Cat person. "I bought some dehydrated water . . . I don't know what to add." --Steven Wright.

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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Long Afternoon (after High Noon by Edward Hopper, 1940) David Rogers Four windows one door In the distance all the light and shadow she can imagine
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High Noon | Dayton Art Institute
The Dayton Art Institute features renowned art collections, special exhibitions, educational programs, family activities, and events in Dayton, Ohio.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Somebody tell me why the killer is not in jail awaiting trial? What were that "prosecutor" and grand jury thinking?!? people.com/woman-argued...
people.com
Woman, 23, Was Killed by Father After 'Big' Argument About Donald Trump, Inquest Hears
An inquest heard Lucy Harrison had a “big” argument about Donald Trump hours before she was fatally shot by her father at his Texas home in Jan. 2025. A U.K. coroner ruled her killing unlawful and "re...
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lonE skuM and his bozos say they're going to Mars but can't even orbit Earth without crashing. So, who wants to be one of the first humans to crash and die on The Red Planet? Or be stranded and die there because the rocket won't start? What--no volunteers? Curious... www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4052143...
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Moment Musk's Starship explodes & lands in sea on world’s most powerful rocket
THIS is the shocking moment SpaceX’s Starship exploded in the Pacific Ocean after losing one of its three main engines. Footage shows Elon Musk’s rocket launching into orbit before comi…
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I want to pet the tiger. The scatches would be worth it. www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I guess these guys think they can buy their way out of responsibility for supporting genocide. Suppressing protest is support. suppohttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/robert-kraft-ed-sheeran-donating-4-million-to-humanitarian-crisis/ar-AA2cmRlu
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reasons Lamo's Law (sorrry, Leno's Law) is needed: First, poor billionaires deserve a break. Who's done more to speed up global warming? Second, Newsom doesn't want to look like he's gone all woke. Third, who doesn't love the smell of unfiltered exhaust from a 1973 Chevy? www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Orange Felon and its VP James Dunce Vance are saying AI does not need to be regulated. Add that to the reasons AI definitely needs to be strictly regulated. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...
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These are the most urgent AI risks, according to 272 experts | MIT Sloan
Which AI risks could cause the most harm in the next five years? New MIT research shows that businesses should be aware of threats like competitive pressure and dangerous AI capabilities.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pop culture has suddenly discovered that The X-Files predicted the dangers of misusing artificial intelligence. Most of the articles must not be written by true X-Filers. They usually overlook Kill Switch, written by William Gibson. In the 1990s it seemed like fantasy. screenrant.com/x-files-kill...
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X-Files’ Most Cyberpunk Episode Written By Iconic Sci-Fi Author Is Still 1 Of Its Best
The most cyberpunk X-Files episode explained.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope this becomes the most-watched video of all time. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vote-buying is illegal. Shows how desperate Republicans are. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Creation And on the eighth day God said I shoulda had more coffee and thought longer about this whole project before I started
Saturn, NASA Hubble Space Telecope image
via Unsplash
Photo by Dev Asangbam on Unsplash
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Etel Adnan David Rogers Shadows fold into other shadows and watch from the margins www.researchgate.net/figure/Etel-...
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look but don't touch. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/lions... #cat
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
M31 David Rogers Building anything taller than trees was where we went wrong We came to be impressed with the magnitudes of our own creations when the Andromeda Galaxy was called The Little Cloud Now we cannot see past the top of the skyscraper
M31, also known as the Andromeda Galaxy
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
According to the Book of Job, God and Satan seem to find each other's company most entertaining. I wonder what they discuss besides how much more misery poor Job can tolerate?
An original poem by David Rogers
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Some of us were already thinking about the Odyssey a long time ago . . . And yes, this version challenges the original. dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol...
Penelope's Lover, by David Rogers https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol26/iss2/22/
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Meaning of Life David Rogers On a morning when the most important decision I had to make was to have more coffee or not I discovered the meaning of life is to always have more coffee
Photo by Ante Samarzija
https://unsplash.com/@antesamarzija
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A Wind David Rogers after Edward Hopper's Ground Swell Earth breathes I breathe Some new creature finds its breath stretches wings and flies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Swell#/media/File:Ground_swell_2014.79.23.jpg
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A novel is like a maze. At least one way in and one way out. If it's a good book, you're a little tempted to retrace your steps. Or a lot tempted.
Maze drawn by David Rogers. There is a way through!
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Deus ex Machina Or Univac and Epicac Great advances are promised by the machine gods: miraculous increase in production of CO2 and nightmares worthy of digital art Intelligence has always been an art but rarely so artificial and so toxic+
Photo by Enzo Tommasi on Unsplash
Find Vonnegut's story "EPICAC" here: https://open.ocolearnok.org/demag/chapter/epicac-by-kurt-vonnegut/
Poem "Univac to Univac" here: https://tilde.town/~kc/poems/univac-to-univac.txt
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
POEM David Rogers Life is memory Maze drawn in wet sand Written on paper fragile as robins' eggs Find more paper a way out or further in Keep walking
https://unsplash.com/@syinq
Photo by Susan Q Yin
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Coffee Cup David Rogers It shares the oldest shape human hands have made: the pot vase bucket basket cradle: Vessel that becomes itself by giving up everything it has
Image by Mike Kenneally
https://unsplash.com/@asthetik
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fortune David Rogers Moonlight moves on water Planchette No hand to guide it
Moon and water photo from Unsplash:
"body of water under full moon"
"Download this free HD photo of dark wallpaper, beach, sea, and dark in Cannon Beach, United States by Kyle Johnson (@kylejeffreys)"
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hello friends. Looking for your next book? The Well and the Spiral is on sale for 99 cents. www.amazon.com/Well-Spiral-...
https://www.amazon.com/Well-Spiral-David-Rogers-ebook/dp/B0GX3B715S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0
Family secrets and supernatural forces dominate this tale of two worlds. Annie and her friend Victoria must come to terms with powers they can barely understand or control. Rusty faces a life-altering challenge: ascend the Spiral and try to return alive. Fate, history, and the cosmos bring Rusty, Annie, Vic and their circle of friends, enemies, and allies together on a path none of them could have imagined--until now.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
HYLAS AND THE NYMPHS David Rogers Some see danger in beauty Others find beauty in danger
Hylas and the Water Nymphs by Henrietta Rae, 1909.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylas_and_the_Water_Nymphs
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Why and how Hylas and the Nymphs had its moment of controversy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_(painting)#
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BRANCUSI'S GOLDEN BIRDS David Rogers Remember the present Live in the future Forget the past Hear birdsong and cat purr Hold everything you want in one hand Let the rest go The present is an egg left by the phoenix Do you really think you know what's inside
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/22/how-constantin-brancusi-shaped-the-course-of-sculpture-in-the-20th-century
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This AI stuff is crazy. I ran a review someone gave one of my books through an AI detector--or so it claims to be. But it flagged one sentence as AI-generated because it used the word "because." The "detectors" are useless, I think. You know a human wrote it if you saw it being written. That's it.
Anyone else nostalgic for the days when electric typewriters with correction ribbons were considered high-tech?
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
INQUIRY David Rogers Why do we make so many STOP signs and so few GO signs What do they hope to keep us from finding STOP signs pretend they are all alike but if they succeeded we would need only one The rest distract us from the final stop As if any word could mean the same thing twice
Photo by Natalia Blauth from Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/red-stop-sign-on-a-road-dFGQTSkFYmg
Modified by David Rogers.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
INSCRIPTION David Rogers I write my oldest name in wet cement Rain falls Now rain knows my name
All images public domain from Unsplash
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
INSCRIPTION David Rogers I write my oldest name in wet cement Rain falls Now rain knows my name
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
HERE'S WHY David Rogers Take a cue from Andy Warhol I would like to explain but cannot Cat sits curls a tail stares at the unseen Eveything is kinetic Be famous for fifteen minutes More than fifteen is exhausting I am going to lasso a supernova If I do not come back please water my plants
Andy Warhol and work by Andy Warhol. Public domain. shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol#/media/File%3ARobert-Indiana-Andy-Warhol-1964.png
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
OTHER David Rogers Across borderlands outside the boundary of skin lie wilderness wastelands and gardens tended by buzzards mockingbirds rabbits and stray cats Skirmish and scandal bring rumors to your doors and windows You decide which to let in www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...
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Lisa Yuskavage | Los Angeles | February 18—April 12, 2025 | David Zwirner
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent paintings by American artist Lisa Yuskavage, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This will be the...
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hey folks, my story "Outside the Station" is here. It's partly inspired by A.J. Deutsch's classic story "A Subway Named Mobius." I always wonder what happens to people on the train. Here's one possible answer. nauvoo.supply/products/inf...
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
My poems in great company in Unlikely Stories Six: www.unlikelystories.org/content/shel...
Poems--Unlikely Stories 6 https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/shelter-icarus-and-missing
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
LANDSCAPE Shadow forms a mask makes copies of faces seen in mirrors Sun slowly moves northward
Edward Hopper, Excursion into Philosophy
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This New Yorker cartoon rewards a closer look.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
ISIS David Rogers All parts of the human body may be imitated Only some can be replaced Toe and finger pry open shells and hearts Hearts open palms Prints copy fingers Severed fragments of soul grow back in new shapes
"Isis wall painting in the tomb of Seti I (KV17)"
Public domain image
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis#/media/File%3A%C3%84gyptischer_Maler_um_1360_v._Chr._001.jpg
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Irony: we have "No Kings" protests, which I totally support. Yet many of us cannot help feeling a bit jealous when the King visits. It's like bad cubic zirconia versus an actual well-cut diamond.
Protesters at a No Kings marchKing Charles and Camilla
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My poem "Icarus" in the magnificent journal Thimble. I'm honored to have my poem in such great company. Visual artists note--it's a very visually appealing journal. Give it a look. www.thimblelitmag.com/2026/02/07/i...
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
SUN, MOON, STARS David Rogers On a clear day you can see what's right in front of you
From Wikipedia, "Moon": "Astronaut Charles Duke working on the Moon with his suit covered in lunar dust. Lunar dust is highly abrasive and can cause damage to human lungs and nervous and cardiovascular systems."

NASA John W. Young • Public domain
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
POEM David Rogers The poem was about what the poet saw outside the window so I went outside looked in and saw the windiw is a lens outside uses to project its inner thoughts on a world neither in or out
Hopper, Western Motel, 1957
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@npr.org Just when you hope NPR might have come to their senses--I don't think they've had Steve Bannon on lately--they dredge super-transphobe Dave Chappelle out of the muck so he can pretend to be a decent person. NPR will never see another dime from me.
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
M31 David Rogers I have never counted to a million but I have seen two and a half million years flash by in less than a second
M31, or the Andromeda Galaxy, is the most distant object visible to the unaided human eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
FORMULA David Rogers Count my heartbeats Count my breaths Count the shadows Today I can afford to do what I want she said
Second Story Sunlight by Edward Hopper
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second-Story-Sunlight-Edward-Hopper-1960.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Big shout-out to Unlikely Stories, which will be publishing three of my poems. Thanks!
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
EROSION David Rogers Light cuts more sharply than water but slower because light has so many places to go A thousand starting points and no end Lee Krasner, Living Colour artblart.com/wp-content/u...
Two people looking at Lee Krasner's painting called Living Colour
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
True Story David Rogers My friend worries about the political mess and the absurdity of human behavior. I agree it's grim but, meanwhile, I say, spring is green and cats purr and forces greater than any of us or the idiot politicians keep the world turning and stars shining.
Edward Hopper, Boy and Moon https://www.tumblr.com/eclecticswoons/665224263417118721/ganymedesrocks-hymnoneos-edward-hopper-boy
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The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
WAITING David Rogers That glassy smooth rectangle where nothing seems to move is only a surface Best not try to cross it no matter how sturdy the light seems Wait for time to rotate the clock the one with no hands or numbers on its face
Edward Hopper, Morning Sun. The model is said to have been Hopper's Wife, Jo.
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