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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 · 08/12/2025

I had a joke about Hades but I'll be damned if I can remember it.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I had a joke about Herakles but it was stupid.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I told a joke about Caesar but was rebuked sharply.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I had a joke about Icarus but it didn't go over well.

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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 · 28/09/2025

I have written extensively about how I gradually faded out of my son's life. It's bittersweet, because on the other hand I nonetheless get to watch him turn into a better person than I ever was...

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

With your kids, you must never take anything for granted!

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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 · 11/08/2025

So glad to share an issue with my friends!

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One of the greatest things to come out of T-Dot in the 80s... Immortal.

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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 · 11/06/2025

Love this show, and the adjacent comedy SMALL ACHIEVABLE GOALS, which brings slapstick into the equation.

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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 · 09/05/2025

My approach as well. I have a main writing place (sitting lengthways on the living room couch, notebook on lap, cat on feet, at 4 a.m.), but the dining room table has seen some good shit, and my father-in-law's ski cabin was The Fount of Creation. I can also edit in cafes. It's a charmed life.

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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

Emily has (present tense, because she will always be with us) a mind as vast as Chopin's, Einstein's, or better yet, Rembrandt's. More than any Buddhist master, she has a way of making epiphany seem inevitable. I cower before her.

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

This is fire. Dayum. I mean, dayum.

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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 · 11/03/2025

A poem: Feelings, feelings. Moon, feelings, petrichor. Kintsugi, feelings, 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 · 25/02/2025

The passive voice is never used by me.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I can't manage in the theme-driven world of poetry manuscripts. My book has a bunch of sub-themes but no overarching single theme. I've done that before and want to get away from that with a collection that is just a sampler. If I can't unify it through style, then I'm stuck.

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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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