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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy)

@okaypoet.bsky.social
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NO DMS WITHOUT PERMISSION•she/her •MFA •teacher •writer •wife •mom •gamer •lifter •ND •dyslexic •guitar player/singer •funny on a bi-weekly basis linktr.ee/okaypoet Facing Shadows: a.co/d/2K6zmRE Unprompted: a.co/d/a06XGtq

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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here's a fun comparison of stress levels 1. May, end of school, insane busy packing up my class to move, etc 2. July, summer break 3. This first week back to school Teens-20s is chill time 30s is hectic but ok 40s is bad times 50s usually means I'm bedridden with illness.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Yoo
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Jfc can you not
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hey, Wednesday. I kinda hate you. Don't take it personally. I hate all the days.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Most days I feel like my arms are just flab. Then I catch my reflection when the light is just right and boom bicep.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's monochrome Monday! I'm wearing an adorable Star Wars tee, but after 30 failed attempts, I've decided 2 things: (1) I can't show you w/o it looking like I'm trying to show you boobs (I'm not) & (2) b/c of the physics of boobs, you can never see all the design in one pic.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Out to brave the commercial world. I really need to find some clothes that help my hourglass-but-too-short-torso disfigurement 🤣🤣🫶🔪✌️
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Therapist: so if your child was in a coma, or became profoundly disabled, she'd still matter, still have worth? Me: yes absolutely. No question. Therapist: but not you? Me: yeah no, absolutely not. Instantaneously worthless. Therapist: okay, we're definitely changing *that* belief set
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A poem
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Some climbs aren't the fight, some are the escape, & I wrack my soul against these rocks to free myself, to feel myself, to #summit somewhere unstopped by time & lies & past & promises made of smoke & paper flowers that turn to ash in my hands #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Person: what's your deepest fear? Me: someone I don't really know or trust asking me invasive questions about myself to mine info they will probably use against me one day
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The sky speaks, but most don't listen. She sings, & sighs. Few memorize her morning poetry, but forgive the paint she spills on night horizons. They ignore the #cadence of her supplication, curse her heat & her ice, pass by & never really know her #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Sun fixes most of my problems
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ah there's my normal numbers
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I. Don't. Want. To. Put. Away. Laundry.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The center of gravity moves & I wonder where the universe went when I closed my eyes, the catch in my chest, stomach drop, inner ear, adrenaline floods & I tip backward, #balance lost, spinning, tossed into nothing: the knife's edge cut me unevenly #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I slept. Like REALLY slept. My brain doesn't usually allow this, but apparently the trick is to have my neck at some inhuman angle because I am unable to turn my head much or look down 😅
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I would wander the desert a thousand years, #sprint into that sweet oblivion, I would swallow the pillar of salt and unpart the seas, sacrifice every doubt on the altar of truth like the sons I'll never bear you, & sleep sounder in the lions' den than in your bed #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You tell me keep going, as though the steps can move me, as though the time spent passes, as though #momentum will build any moment now, any day now, as though tomorrow will be different from yesterday, as though you never expected me to anyway #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Arthritis flare got my hands pretty rough, so heres my sunset. Im out for the night✌️
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sometimes I see a sparrow savagely beating itself against a #headwind, frozen in the sky as though suspended by wires, making no movement forward, its tiny heart beat fluttering & flailing & I wonder who told her, too, it was laziness to land. #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On the bright side, I'm feeling much more myself today. Ran a mile and a half, but had a *minor* asthma attack. Took an albuterol break, then came back for a slower pace 5k.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I have been impossible so many times, risen from graves that claimed better bodies than mine, climbed to where no air remains, & fallen from skies of fire like flaming rain, & I will conquer this, too, make one last miracle: my north, my wish, my truth #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I managed to talk myself into exercise, showering, washing my hair, drying my hair, and even put on makeup. Today, that felt like climbing Everest, and yet I feel zero pride or even relief in accomplishing it. Brain chemistry sucks sometimes.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
*sigh*
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Mosely is my spirit animal today... and also interfering with my ability to use a keyboard
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Everything hurts and I'm dying, lol
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Step 1: wash towels Step 2: dry towels Step 3: remove from dryer, place in basket Step 4: set the basket down for 5 seconds before folding so you can pee Step 5: Fisk.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Have a day✌️🔪🫶
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We've seen trees contort & lean to find the sun, flowers face each other in #defiance of night, & dandelions crawl through concrete cracks to earn the light, & through a window screen, a houseplant demands compassion for its roots, cramped with nowhere to grow. #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Another day, another assclown coming at me like he knows. 🤣🔪✌️
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
• Dreamed my teeth were breaking and falling out. • Then woke up with a little ruptured vessel in my eye. It's summer. I should not be stressed(?). Is there a manager I can speak to about a refund?
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We have no choice but to stand as we are, an oak judged by maple #appraisals: we burn too hot, unwieldy among tidier trees, offering only acorns & shade but none of the sweet syrup the world would prefer to take from our veins #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I sense the shift, the way a flower feels her petals pull away from the stamen, nascent #apprehension, not knowing if this is what it's like to bloom, or whether unseen hands are drawing her apart to drop "he loves me, loves me, loves me not" #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Adorn the blade, gild it if you will, fling your #florid sad sort of excuses in my face while my wounds flow, but I would know your hand anywhere. #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It occurs to me that the same kinds of small-minded, insecure men who call women *ugly, sl*t, wh*re, b*tch* etc online are the same types who wanted to burn women at the stake few hundred years ago.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm about to do my lift, and was mentally trying to decide what to do today, whether I should try to work on book 4, when I got a notif (other app) that felt like the universe nudging. 🥹🥰
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Over on threads, I got shamed by a man for... *checks notes* ...bullying a welcome mat.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Stubborn sky, dry and colder than summer should be, #disgruntled leaves shake in unseasonable winds, and I name their colors for no reason but to bear the witness I was denied. #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What sin is in the mingling of souls born together millennia ago, not within a #flea as Donne dreamed, but inside the mouth of time, drowning in the infinite—what sin is it to touch your three hearts to mine? #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
All my bathroom appliances having to take turns in the one outlet like they're siblings in the late 90s with dialup internet. Sorry, Toothbrush, it's Razor's turn. Calm down, Waterpik! After Flat-iron is done you can have a go!
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Even trees speak, if you know their language. Withering leaves means I need rain. Bent branches say I've craned my neck for a speck of your sun light. But some only see the browning, the broken, a new #villain in your garden of eden. #vss365
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
She's a 10, but she dramatically lip syncs to every song while she's running on the treadmill.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🎵MAAAAHHHH HEART'S IN CARDIO, IT BEATS FOR YOU THO I RUN SLOW🎵
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Say those three words I wanna hear
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I keep seeing the same angel number. The one for change. The one that repeats fours like a hypocrite: like the gravity that keeps us locked to the sun while we pretend it rises & falls for us; like you, like me.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This might look like before and after weight loss pics. It's not. These were taken 2 days apart. Clothing, posture, angles, etc can make people look vastly different, and if you have dysmorphia like I do, that can seriously fuck with your head.
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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Running errands is stupid and I hate it. ✌️🔪😒
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