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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I've been reading poetry and other literature from Ukraine and Gaza in wartime and I'm amazed by the raw humanity of it all.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Because there are no atheists in war, after all. Shield and protect us Lord," from Ukranian writer Ella Leus.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

These buds are obscene, daring to rise like a Phoenix, bursting forth from the dead, tiny Jesuses, rising up from their eternal sleep, that isn't so eternal!

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

All that trauma? Burn it. That's where you'll find the light. That's when you will see.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Are beautiful Mexican women the only ones who sing while washing dishes?

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I don't care for poets who capitalize off their family's trauma or struggle in a condescending way. Save that for your diary or therapist.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

After reading Sara Borjas' poem "post surgery my mother promised to change again" I find the speaker very condescending towards their mother after surgery, and their grandmother, and frankly I want to write a poem entitled, "post birth, the mother wished she had an abortion again."

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

When will boyfriends understand what to do with a sad girl?

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

How long I been reading and writing.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I almost caught a poem flitting in the empty spaces, clinging to the wet of shaking umbrella. It's shadow a sigh of relief smothered in a closing Cafe door on a stormy night. Jingle, she's here. She tiptoes on eggshells, and she means what she does not say.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

On my morning walk in the hood, I dodged a Crack head scavenger and a skunk. My heart wants to connect my head says not today.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

He sells bottles of my sweat, 2 for 25 or 3 for 50, and he isn't afraid to collect, rings me like a sponge, I'm not afraid to get wet.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Please look past the color of your skin. Mexican people are being profiled, and the Mexican mentally ill are ignored. We're not white enough, we're not black enough. And no one sees us.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I don't know why I often feel like I don't belong. Except with my books and my journal. How have I become so solitary?

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=pbrv... I remember dancing with a pretty girl to this song. Where is she now?

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Stumbleine (Remastered 2012)

YouTube video by The Smashing Pumpkins - Topic

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Reading philosophy now magazine on the unhealthy political accusations and/or cancelations we're having. Instead of actual conversations.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Sincerity isn't the same as being factual.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Often when we discuss or debate fashionable politics, we are only building the one percenter's pedestal higher than our opinions.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I think Aristotle disliked poetry because it can be a tool against tyranny. I always thought political philosophy needs to be dressed in fashion, at least apply exfoliator and lotion. Too dry.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Made my son pig n a poke for breakfast. From supernatural episode the mystery spot.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Is spring slow or fast? I like to think it's frolicking, leaving a trail of bloom.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

After a breakup, it's even worse when you don't have a broken heart.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Memory is always faded, but I ponder on moments in my past that I wish I cherished more when I was in their presence. Be in the now. Right now I'm listening to r&b drinking some wine, listening to my brother and mom in the background, with the smell of dinner cooking, the sound of my son laughing

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I want you here, even when I'm gone. I want you here, when there is no one around. I want you here, when God is a no show. I want you here, even if all I get is to see your breath fogging up my rear view mirror.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It's supposed to rain in Michigan today. I miss the romance of sipping a beer in a moody dark bar, with the doors open, smelling and watching the rain. Damn my 9-5.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You don't understand. Feeling too much, it's not all about pain. Love is multiplied. It seeps through your pores, and your partner scratches lines of grime off your skin to prevent infection.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It's not amazing when you don't have the luxury of sadness but are more caught up in mundane coffee and cream. I miss wailing. I miss being poor.i miss sleeping under bridges. I miss you. I miss me. I want to run forever. Don't ask me for my number.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I love a sad girl with an acoustic guitar. Even better when she's angry.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I meant to hang myself with Patriarchy's necktie, but I had to work a 9-5, no time for one night stands and alibis. Drown me in wine at the company Christmas party, I want to remember how to survive.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

pca.st/episode/872b... Interesting that I'm reading"The Hummingbirds Daughter" and this re-airs on the podcast "Latino USA." The novel is roughly based on the life of Teresa Urrea, a curandera in the late 19th century. This podcast is celebrating her life.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Rest in peace beautiful, kind, and gentle Jackie Torrez.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I will abandon literature, poetry, and nonsense for a moment and share this go fund me. As is written in my bio, I'm first a mother to my autistic lovey. His therapist was brutally slain by her partner, and this is to support her family. www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-j...

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Donate to Honoring Jackie Jo Torrez: Support Needed, organized by Mona Spencer

Dear Friends and Community, It is with a heavy heart that I share the tragic a… Mona Spencer needs your support for Honoring Jackie Jo Torrez: Support Needed

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If you can make me cry and laugh at a funeral, you're probably the one.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Don't leave your friends for a lover. They are the ones to gift you sin, a cigarette or sloppy hug. While the other leaves before breakfast, promising heaven in a shy goodbye.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There is alot of scheming to be found at diners. Confessions and dreams wasted over luke-warm cups of coffee with lipstick stains, greasy hashbrowns, and hopeful fluffy omelets. These are the keepers of the night. Their burdens lifted for a moment.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=2X5D... Everyone here knows everyone is thinking about someone else. We'll it's best if we all keep this under our heads.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I thought I was in love but they kept changing faces.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

2/22/25: reflections on native American poetry: Raw humanity is holy, full of earth and blood and stolen nations tied up, wound up, with borders and flags. Now pregnant with sin, mockery and choppy confessions dribble down God's thighs.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

On reading the march issue of Poetry magazine. This issue is on native American poetry, mostly Navajo. I don't know why the assault on their peoples isn't considered an American holocaust. I didn't appreciate their poetry until I realized it needed to be sung and recited. It's like a drum.

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

An interview with Ada Limon, US poet laureate

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

tornline.tumblr.com?source=share some of my writing

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Tornline @tornline.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think most people don't love because they are protecting themselves. Let it go.

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