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JD Scott

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writer, educator, delinquent poet, phd candidate, silly goose ★ literary, fantasy, horror, poesy experiments, weird genre-blurring wordthings ★ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ★ jdscott.com ★ linktr.ee/jdscott ★ they/them

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 21/05/2025

I have sat inside this sadness all day. RIP Alice Notley. She was one of the greatest American poets.

SHOW YOU HIS FACE YOUNG
Alice Notley

treat everyone else as if they were also
pieces of the earth projections of the
earth, he said.
all this decay of bodies, this putri-
faction? not so bad, he said.
what does the earth want me to sing
to it?
‘i love you.’ he said.

my child come this way
my child come this way
you will take home with you a good country
says the father
ghost dance song.

i dreamed my own father was young,
drinking and young. such a longing to see him Mara i say

in a church basement i say
i’m in jeans and a soft man shirt, it’s an amateur sing
all the men there will sing, will i
the seat i sit down in i see belongs
to someone who will sing from Songs of the Republic
for the book is in front of me
i must find a seat where there is no book no Republic
no named song.

show you my father’s face young
but you can’t see it because
it’s inside me
or can you see it
can you see?

if they could see inside you his young self. and he is dead,
in the uncorrupting earth,
Gaza Strip determined to resist,
having set booby traps mines and roadside
bombs Mira says, so that
“This crime was carried out
by scum who hold nothing sacred,”
Putin said after the deadliest
terror attack in Russia since

and all such attacks can be linked
and then we can kill them all,
all the Muslims we care to, in this corroborating war
which makes whatever we say
the truth of it, Mira says

Keep his mouth
away from me
whose? the mouth of male leader
keep it away

pull it away tear it away. a new
ghost dance song
i am singing Cosette says for i am new

Why am i here? i ask
the man in the black headband
Because you remember everything
and know that the earth is uncorrupting

Has gallant hair and master dust
who
the dead in mind
i’d show you my father in my mind

i love you earth, for you have allowed me my mind
for you have allowed me my form
which exists in my mind,
yours and mine
you are more than and more than by being only

i am the people of the sacred bird and the ghost shirt
soft plaid shirt

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/03/2025

An anti-fascist hacker momentarily took over, reportedly.

A screenshot of a hacker claiming to have hacked Twitter/X in the name of anti-fascism.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 01/03/2025

Me, once again thwarting my cat's prison break attempts.

Mr. Milchick, a character from Severance, standing in a doorway and blocking it with his body.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 30/12/2024

I can't say enough good things about this novel (published in 1991) & how poignantly ahead of its time it was in terms of discussing race, US history, violence, sexuality... all through the model of the vampire. Go out & buy yourself a copy of the Gilda Stories immediately if you've never read it.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/11/2024

You didn't have to make my financial illiteracy & emotional dysregulation sound so punk.

A news headline that reads 'People Are ‘Doom Spending’ to Deal With the State of the World'

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 09/11/2024

Another book I'm unfamiliar with—thank you for the rec. PS: I was looking for a book on my anthology shelf this morning & found a queer/magical one you edited! How serendipitous.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 02/11/2024

I'm preparing to (finally) take my comprehensive exams (comps) in the spring w/ my primary list focused on "Post-WWII Queer, Transgressive Novels in the U.S." I'm still working on my theory/criticism list—so I'm open to recs of all sorts if any queer academics (🌈🎓) or #queerwriters have suggestions!

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 20/10/2024

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/10/2024

I own the full set of the version on the right! They're among the very favorite books I own.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/10/2024

I have all three of the version on the right from the original trilogy. They're very dear to me because I found them at three different used book stores/thrift shops!

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