“The first penguin chick born / to a plastic water bottle waddles into the warm night.” (sharing this once more before my new poem comes out)

michael röbbins@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

new poem, "Altogether Elsewhere," in new issue of The Sewanee Review thesewaneereview.com/articles/alt... (1/2)

“The first penguin chick born / to a plastic water bottle waddles into the warm night.” (sharing this once more before my new poem comes out)

michael röbbins@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

new poem, "Altogether Elsewhere," in new issue of The Sewanee Review thesewaneereview.com/articles/alt... (1/2)

i hate the term “public-facing”

The question I am asked most often about communism is “Will we still have tiny backpacks.” Comrades, we will, and they might get even tinier

The question I am asked most often about communism is “Will we still have tiny backpacks.” Comrades, we will, and they might get even tinier

saw a couple buying prewashed bagged greens at the supermarket, just full-on zero-fucks amor-fati shopping mode

who else learned the word "lacustrine" from John Ashbery

The guy I ordered a Thelonious Monk CD from sent me an email saying "You are a very interesting person"

I keep dreaming that because of some kind of administrative error I have to retake my senior year of high school & I’m sitting in English class like “This is ridiculous, I have a PhD in English, I’m an English professor!” And then the final essay is due & I haven’t done the reading

i just told my tv remote that it was "being fucking obnoxious"

I dreamed that my horrible ex-stepmother, whom I haven't seen since I was a teenager, accused me of adding steps to my step count on my phone. Childhood fucks you up

Jim, I've been handed this bulletin saying Ursula is STILL in the box. We're going to take you now to live footage from the scene & a special panel commentary

sometimes when Ursula jumps in a box I put on a newscaster voice and say things like “a cat in New Jersey is in a box, it’s unprecedented. no one knows quite what to make of the situation. more on this story as it develops”

Barthesmaxxing

ending side one of a record with ”While My Guitar Gently Weeps” & “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” is a declaration of war

I love the opening line of The Odyssey, “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip”

turns out the jazz albums I dismissed in high school as uncool because my friends’ conservative parents listened to them are pretty great

I love the opening line of The Odyssey, “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip”

Whoever put this in the free-books box at my university, you’re crazy

Whoever put this in the free-books box at my university, you’re crazy

Don't cry for Argentina (just wanted to get there first)

Shakira is still so hot though

watching The Odyssey, I too want to go home

watching The Odyssey, I too want to go home

“Eleventy thousand degrees outside / With a heat index of kablooey.” - Michael Robbins, “Alien vs Predator” (2012)

Actually, Mr. Frost, ice is sounding better all the time

sometimes i like to share a new poem instead of trying to get it published somewhere. i've been published in all the places i wanted to be published when i was young, so who cares. anyway, hope you like this, loosely inspired by the shijing

I was in Paris when PSG won the Championship League & their fans went wild, but they were far less annoying than the English fans on NJ Transit, so I’m happy with this outcome. But ¡viva España!

Well now I, too, am mad about the Odyssey movie