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Micah James Bauman

@micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online

1.7K followers 982 following 945 posts

Poet with Autism. But, not both at the same time. Philly sports fan. Published in Whale Road Review, South 85 Review and Anti-Heroin Chic. Co-wrote Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems (Seven Kitchens Press).

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Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 11/10/2026

Lies I've Told My 3 Year Old Recently
Raul Gutierrez
Trees talk to each other at night.
All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.
Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV,
they get very loose.
Tiny bears live in drain pipes.
If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub
against the sky.
The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago.
Everyone knows at least one secret language.
When nobody is looking, I can fly.
We are all held together by invisible threads.
Books get lonely too.
Sadness can be eaten.
I will always be there.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 11/10/2026

The Breather
Billy Collins
Just as in the horror movies when someone discovers that the phone calls are coming from inside the house
so too, I realized that our tender overlapping
has been taking place only inside me.
All that sweetness, the love and desire-it's just been me dialing myself then following the ringing to another room
to find no one on the line, well, sometimes a little breathing but more often than not, nothing.
To think that all this time— which would include the boat rides, the airport embraces, and all the drinks-

it's been only me and the two telephones, the one on the wall in the kitchen and the extension in the darkened guest room upstairs.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 12/05/2026

J.K. Simmons sits in an office and smokes a cigar. Subtitle says: Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 14/03/2026

Blossom on the couch.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 01/03/2026

Blossom getting ready to nap on her woodstock toy.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 10/02/2026

The update on my life lately is basically this.

User Mark @thecatwhisprer posted: "Used to wonder why my parents couldn't grasp technology but now anytime i see something new i'm like "I'm not learning that."

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 08/02/2026

JMAC already bored of playing with the Thunder. #nbasky

Chet sitting next to Jared McCain on the OKC bench. JMac is yawning.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 25/01/2026

Haliburton is all of us. #nba #nbasky

Tyrese Haliburton tweeted Alex Pretti was murdered.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 07/01/2026

Blossom lying in the dirt.

Blossom sitting on the ground wearing a hot dog costume.

Blossom’s head with a bow stuck on it.

Blossom on the sidewalk wearing a Spider-man costume.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 30/12/2025

Yeah, simmer down, Denzel Washington. Life's not that bad.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 13/12/2025

By Emily Dickinson

Gratitude - is not the mention Of a Tenderness, But it's still appreciation Out of Plumb of Speech -
When the Sea return no Answer
By the Line and Lead
Proves it there's no Sea, or rather A remoter Bed?

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 06/12/2025

Cutest dog ever.

Blossom in her snoopy sweater

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 26/11/2025

That's nothing.

The Future Devil from chainsaw man with closed captions reading: "Youtube rules. The future rules. The future rules.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 19/10/2025

@davidjbauman.bsky.social and i’s haul from @lityoungstown.bsky.social

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 09/09/2025

Blossom why she sitting like that

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 06/09/2025

This is not a joke. Bernie stood outside in below freezing temps in Vermont to ask you this. Support a progressive cause by buying a book by “a gay man” and one that is “neurodivergent.”

Bernie outside asking for donations meme with text:
I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING YOU TO
READ "MAPPING THE VALLEY:
HOSPITAL POEMS" BY DAVID & MICAH BAUMAN

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 01/09/2025

Spider-Man panel. Peter Parker web-slinging.

“HEY, GUYS, WHAT'D I MISS?
BESIDES A
FASCIST TAKEOVER
OF THE UNITED STATES--LOTTA DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION--GENERAL CHAOS...
KINDA
INSENSITIVE
QUESTION NOW
THAT I THINK
ABOUT IT.”

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 25/08/2025

This is the field where the battle did not happen,
where the unknown soldier did not die.
This is the field where grass joined hands,
where no monument stands,
and the only heroic thing is the sky.

Birds fly here without any sound,
unfolding their wings across the open.
No people killed—or were killed—on this ground
hallowed by neglect and an air so tame
that people celebrate it by forgetting its name.
—William E. Stafford

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 22/08/2025

I got this one. I swear these must be AI-generated.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 10/08/2025

@davidjbauman.bsky.social ❤️

Carbon Dating
He tried it once
as a last resort

but most of the women
were a million years old.

From Billy Collins’ MUSICAL TABLES •

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 07/08/2025

This book does a great job of explaining why cooperation and kindness have scientifically and historically been a big part of our species survival and why we should try to be better at that.

Book titled: Understanding Our Origins and
Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by
BRIAN HARE and VANESSA WOODS.
Authors of the New York Times bestseller THE GENIUS OF DOGS.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 16/06/2025

My baby has claimed my pillow.

Blossom (my dog) resting her head on my new spider-man pillow.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 03/06/2025

Okay. I found it cleaning underneath the couch this morning.

2 pennies sitting on a dirty tray.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 02/06/2025

A man and his son standing at a podium reading poems at an art gallery.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 04/05/2025

Really?!

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 04/05/2025

Really?

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 02/05/2025

The Objection To Being Stepped
On
At the end of the row I stepped on the toe
Of an unemployed hoe.
It rose in offense
And struck me a blow
In the seat of my sense.
It wasn't to blame
But I called it a name.
And I must say it dealt Me a blow that I felt Like a malice prepense.
You may call me a fool,
But was there a rule
The weapon should be
Turned into a tool?
And what do we see?
The first tool I step on Turned into a weapon.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 21/04/2025

These I Can Promise
I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart's devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 16/04/2025

Good collection.

New and collected poems by Richard Wilbur

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 15/04/2025

Heck, the wizard of oz likes it. You can trust him.

Ron
1 comment:
The Wizard of 'OZ' September 24, 2021 at 4:13 PM
Ordered! Awesome poems David and Micah! I really enjoyed "Tools"
Reply
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Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 06/03/2025

I need to do more live readings like the one in this photo where I totally look like I have things under control.

Micah James Bauman holding two copies of a literary magazine. One in each hand has a piece of paper inside. Looking perplexed at the camera.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 20/02/2025

Hey, @davidjbauman.bsky.social and I are gonna be in a book. Whadaya know?

The cover of KEYSTONE POETRY
CONTEMPORARY POETS ON PENNSYLVANIA
Edited by Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple going to be publishes in May. I did know for the record!

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 31/01/2025

Someone passed this along for my dog, Blossom, and I sort of think it’d make her look as if she’s a fan of the LA Lakers.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 30/01/2025

Oh wow. Ok.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 23/01/2025

Actually this may be the problem.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 22/01/2025

Hahaha nice one @joe-hill.bsky.social

Basket full of heads comic panel

Woman: IF THIS WEREN'T YOUR LAST DAY, YOU'D BE OUT THERE, AND T'D BE SICK TO MY STOMACH WORRYING ABOUT YOU.
I DON'T KNOW IF I EVER WILL. NOTHING MAKES ME PHYSICALLY ILL LIKE IMAGINING SOMETHING HAPPENING TO YOU ON THE JOB. ЕХСЕРТ MAYBE FOR SKA MUSIC.

MAN: “OH MY GOD, NOT THIS AGAIN.
STING--“

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 21/01/2025

Topps Allen Iverson trading card after his sophomore year.

Shows Allen Iverson’s nba record after 2 seasons.
Allen- team captain as a testament to his maturity in his second season - was a much-improved player despite a slight dip in his scoring. He finished among the league's 1997-98 leaders in steals (fifth), points per game (eighth),

Allen Iverson card.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 18/01/2025

@davidjbauman.bsky.social 😮

David Lynch @DAVID…. Jun 18, 2010
This weekend I'm going to try to find out if I'm connected to the moon.
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Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 14/01/2025

Pretty cool. @ryannorth.ca @albertmonteys.bsky.social Thanks for the late Christmas present, @davidjbauman.bsky.social

Slaughter House-Five or the children’s crusade. A graphic novel adaption of the Kurt Vonnegut novel.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 07/01/2025

When we mention Crypto in this house, we are not talking about currency.

The Giwoggle. The official monster of Clinton County, PA.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 06/01/2025

❤️

My Blossom playing with his buddy Winston.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 30/12/2024

“Of course it would never happen. But what if…?” - Marvel

Issue from Marvel titled What If the amazing spider-man had not married mary jane?

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 28/12/2024

What’s one cool thing you got for the holidays?

Anya. Spy x Family figures.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 26/12/2024

And now… My most recently read comic:

Cover of I Hate Fairly Land Volume One by Scottie Young.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 26/12/2024

Meanwhile on facebook.

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Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 25/12/2024

In between basketball games, Switched to something called Phillies yule log real quick to see what it was. 😂

Phillie Phanatic sitting on a rocking chair by a fireplace and a Christmas set

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 22/12/2024

A poster for Spy x Family season 3 coming out in October of 2025. Bond and Anya are on the poster. Anya is holding three fingers up.

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 18/12/2024

[i want to go back]
Gregory Orr
I want to go back To the beginning.
We all do.
I think:

Hurt won't be there.
But I'm wrong.
Where the water
Bubbles up
At the spring:
Isn't that a wound?

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 13/12/2024

I have this book somewhere. Can’t seem to find it. 😢

Make ME Rain

Poems & prose

by Nikki Giovanni

“Nikki Giovanni is remarkable.” —Gwendolyn brooks

Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online · 13/12/2024

Jesus or a fridge magnet containing the image of Jesus.The lamb and the son of God, holding a literal lamb with a speech bubble (another magnet) that says you: YOU WILL BOW TO ME!