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David J Bauman

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Poet, librarian, birder. šŸŒˆ New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Crab Creek Review, the MacGuffin, Valparaiso Poetry Review. Three chapbooks, including *Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems*, with my son Micah, Seven Kitchens Press. davidjbauman.com/ct

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Took me a second (or 20)

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It was a good poem, worth the repost!

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Ughā€”ā€œincestā€ not invest. Seriously? Autocorrect is now censoring me. Not merely messing me up. The upside is that it seems to see the obscenity in todayā€™s investment industry

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And George, many R Martin seems obscenely obsessed with invest.

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House of the Dragon. Honestly why is this show so fucking gruesome and were expected to love it?

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It will definitely blow my next doctorā€™s mind. Heā€™ll think Iā€™m mad (which is the point, I suppose) or trying to hit on him.

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A few of those stats for me are going to be super easy to see through right away.

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Um, and thatā€™s me seated on the right, like a little 100 years ago

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My sister and I used to be very close. Things are . . . tense these days. But Dad getting older & our brother with dementia is only part of the strain. She takes care of Dad and I do my best to take care of Jeff. I still hope she has a great birthday.
jeffssongoftheday.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/t...

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Itā€™s like an amazing, long version haiku

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Nobody waits like this anymore, Nobody loves this way anymore. Nikky Finney

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I am five episodes in to House of the Dragon and only because I have been asked by someone who wants to share it with me. Plot device, intrigue, violence, drama only take me so far. Honestly, how the hell does one love a story when there is no character to actually give a damn about?

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Iā€™m thrilled this is getting traction, so let be add this: If you want and are able, write to or show up at your local town, borough, county, or municipality council and tell your story. Share how important your local public library is to you. Statistics are important but so is advocacy.

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I canā€™t express why this speaks so deeply to me.

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This this this! Itā€™s the first thing I say when people ask how they can help the library. The second thing is show up, use our services. Come get your copies here instead of at Staples, weā€™re cheaper and the more you use us, the better are stats. The better our stats, the more our funding rises.

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Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

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Oh, Jennifer, it was soooo gorgeous through my scope, but I couldn't recreate the colors in the photo.

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If you bird this, see a post.
Wait, strike that. Reverse it.
Highly zoomed and cropped digi-scoped photo of my first Blue Grosbeak this morning.
#lifer #birding
I donā€™t think I was supposed to say more than:
ā€œIf you see this, post a bird.ā€

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Thanks for not being upset about my mentioning it! šŸ§”

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Iā€™m late to this show, but Iā€™m kinda enjoying Only Murders in the Building

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Yeah, we were out and about today. Gonna stay inside for this nuttiness

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ā€œPatriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isnā€™t a foot of land in the world which doesnā€™t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ā€˜owners,ā€™ who each in turn, as ā€˜patriots,ā€™ with proud swelling hearts defended itā€¦ 8/9

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I meant to say ā€œlovely,ā€ btw, but I suppose they are lively too :)

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These are lively little haikus, but these are not at all submission calls. Why are you using that tag?

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Open your Popular with Friends Feed and post your your flutters (never skeets) in there so the flutter bots will make you instantly Popular with all your friends.
#badbskytips

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It was like I was in a John Ashbery poem for a moment.

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I have muted so many words I cannot read my own replies.

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ā€œSomething raspy,ā€ yes. Well done

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Accurate or not, I really loved his take on KG3. Plus, heā€™s kinda adorable.

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I have been asked that both times I flew into Belfast.

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Left to right, top to bottom: Bill, Steve, Caroline, Magnolia, Fluffy, Adam, Lolita, Joanne, and Tibbles.

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