The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

she cries if I dont hold her, so I have to use my exercise bike like this

“it’s not that deep” it’s not that shallow. now what

I could live to be a hurricane

Turn into a tempest, violent, silent in the eye

All whirling, gusting, wuthering

Could it be enough to change the way you use my name?

going to the strip clup with pip plup

comic that appeared to me as I was waking up from a dream

i'm so fucking over it

Oh so you'd rather use eugenics on animals and abuse them instead? 🙄

i was about to get violent then i saw the handle im crying

mischievous puppy

diegetic as fuck in the club

spiritual successor to my email post

ok this too

dry humping in its specificity as a term implies the existence of wet humping

not my best work

[GUY WHO HAS THE MANNERISMS OF A NEUROTIC PREY ANIMAL VOICE] yeah i really believe that i am always a pretty calm person. cool. Collected, even

Anyone got that poem written from the perspective of an English teacher where they know deeply personal things about their now adult students because of the essays they wrote

FOUND IT it was in one of my boards

Text ID:

Small Town English Teacher

In your town, former students sling your drinks, snap your x-rays, and report your news on TV. You hold their secrets because you remember their essays.

One returns from combat, homecoming party at the airport, and you know he only joined up because his mom was ashamed of him. You remember the essay.

One dies from an opioid OD and you know about the man who groped her at work and how she told his wife. You remember the essay.

One smiles and wins an award and you know her drunk dad pushed her mom into a wall. You remember the essay.

One closes her eyes halfway in the mugshot and you know she worked in assisted living and once brushed a dying woman's hair. You remember the essay.

- Jessie Lovett Allen

(c) 2020 by Jessie Lovett Allen

Jessie Lovett Allen teaches reading, writing, and literature at North Platte Community College in western Nebraska. She holds a doctorate in Literary Education from the Univerity of Wyoming. She can be reached at Jessie.lovett.allen @ gmail. com or @ jesslovettallen

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Redraw of something I did years ago that still makes me laugh

Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

After having gone thru acct recovery a couple times early in the days of OneDrive, I got the vibe that saving ANYTHING to a propriatary service was a huge mistake, ESP anything MS. Nice to see that vibe continues to check out.

MS does not care how many years of your life you have backed up to their cloud- they can take it away/delete it for any reason at any time. Keep your stuff local on an external drive.

Especially everyone who has had to deal with social media and shop platforms denying you service because your work is too sexual, too queer, etc: it won't end there. Don't rely on 'the cloud'. Keep your stuff local on an external drive.