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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I suck at issues-oriented verse. I've written my share of it but it's always heavy-handed and obvious (I guess like a lot of what I write). I'm just some doofus who polishes sand grains while Lorca's blood spatters his assassin's shirt. But fuck it. Some poems just have to come out.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Barry Dempster, one of Canada's finest poets and a dear friend, whose departure has left me disconsolate. Those of you outside of Canada, please look him up. He's worth a deep dive.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Oh my God could she write. Oh my God could she read. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6i...

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ANNE SEXTON reads "Her Kind"

YouTube video by Poets Speak

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today, a very dear friend and a titan of Canadian letters will transition from this life. Godspeed you, Barry, you will see Karen soon. We love you.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I read poetry as if it's out to get me.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Never been a fan of puffballs. The tofu of the mushroom world.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My poetry is a machine as complicated as a cedar shim, though I can't pretend it's as useful.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

For me a poem begins with play and ends with work, and begins with intuition and ends with calculation. It comes into being with a spark, but a spark that catches not in some random pile of branches, but in a proper assembly of tinder and kindling, to which I add cured fuel logs.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I bristle when art is called "content". I'm a mal-content, full of dis-content.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The dumber I become at day to day things, the wiser I become in things of the heart.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Not being punished for your idiosyncrasies is a form of privilege.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

When I'm on my deathbed, I want to go out wearing a Star Trek red shirt that has "Red Shirt. Might not make it." on it.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Sometimes my poems are Kate Hepburn. Sometimes they're Clara Bow. I try for Gloria Swanson but often wind up with Tallulah Bankhead. Recently I've done a few Rita Hayworths, but I'm focusing on Gloria Grahames these days.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Be thou like the Weeble. For consider him: he wobbleth, yet falleth not down.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Contemplating the extreme roundness of my cat Banjo’s head. Actually, a little flattened on top, making it an oblate spheroid, kind of like the planet.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Poetry is craft. But not the coloured macaroni on construction paper kind.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I didn't eat the plums in the icebox. I ate all the cheese and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It's National Pet Day! So a poem to my cat, with a title almost as long as the poem: EVERY WRITER SHOULD HAVE A CAT AND WRITE AT LEAST ONE THING ABOUT IT SO HERE'S MINE My cat is so playful and rambunctious he often draws my blood. I suppose that makes him a poet too.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I can say with absolute certainty that I am the only in person in history who has ever dreamt of bags of branded Denis Diderot peat moss. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_D...

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've got an idea for a dish that prevents heartburn. It's called Pesto-Bismol. (What?)

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My buddy said it best. The US senate was based on the Roman senate. It's the Ides of March. You do the math.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A POEM feelings feelings moon feelings petrichor feelings trees feelings kintsugi murder of crows feelings

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

When I was a kid I had the Ramones blaring and laughed at the tastes of my parents. Now I get the attraction of the Doobie Brothers. #FML

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Developed by my friend Wil McReynolds, unsung genius of Canadian tech.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My relationship with poetry? We love each other dearly, and have many arguments, then find ourselves waltzing in the kitchen to hurtin' songs on the Victrola.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Musical hive mind: I've always thought the term "woodshedding" was negative, referring to over-practicing -- that is, practicing so much and so hard you get diminished returns. But I find online that it seems to mean simply givin' 'er when practicing. Which is it?

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A toast! Poets, here's to your holiday scribing / scribbling / scrabbling / scrambling! May your families be just bad enough to provide you with good material!

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Art Hive Mind. I need paintings with an Andrea Kowch kind of vibe, but from the male perspective. Enigmatic high street hippies, but young men, as opposed to young Tilda Swinton. Ideas?

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Family holiday angst. Oh, the weather inside is frightful... (From my chapbook, How to Be Human, Bywords.ca).

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Culture consists of all those things we most take for granted.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Embarrassing admission of the day: Rilke doesn't do it for me.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Is it too early to put Bailey's in my morning coffee? Early in the season I mean.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Everything I need to know about throwing a party I learned from Joan Crawford. Follow this to the letter.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

There's a Victoria Chang poem for every situation.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

See— there, in the nighttime sky, the rock a poet should never name is imbued with human feelings. It shines as if it knew. It knows not a thing. But its light is as warm as your father’s good intentions when he asks you why you always come in second.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello? I'm here. Where is everybody?

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