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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

8 months

my poem “real romantic,” which won an academy of american poets award at school, is now on @POETSorg !

Academy of American Poets

@POETSorg

8 months

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 University & College Poetry Prizes! Established in 1955, the Academy sponsors over 200 annual poetry prizes at colleges and universities across the country. Read this year's prize-winning poems here:

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

what’s the word for when you’re very smart but can’t remember anything and know literally nothing

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4 years

men really be like “you’re soo toxic for telling everyone what i did to you”

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

by age 30 you should have: -two types of rice in your pantry -a daily spf 50 -heated blanket -a TON of anxiety -figured out your moon and rising -debt

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rachelle toarmino

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i hope this email finds you not mad at me

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3 years

in all seriousness slim jim should make a thicker, more sinister snack called slom jom

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rachelle toarmino

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self-immolation isn’t suicide. but one thing i’ve learned from losing people to suicide is the best and only way we can come to peace with their decision is to rage against the conditions that made their decision seem, to them, reasonable. and aaron bushnell said free palestine

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3 years

it’s another day

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rachelle toarmino

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3 months

will never understand people who can smoke weed and party. i get stoned and eat a can of tuna from a little plate so my cats think i'm one of them while they eat their dinner. my husband is out of town on "business." it took me fifteen minutes to type this

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

my neck my back my pussy and my crack is an iambic pentameter

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2 years

if he's your man why did he call my prose 'gorgeous' 'urgent' and 'startling'

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3 months

being a writer is just giving yourself homework forever

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

can’t believe daddy issues girls get all the attention when it’s us mommy issues girls you should watch out for

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

i was at the protest of this rally. please keep circulating this photo, which shows erie county sheriff tim howard speaking to a crowd with confederate flags, but what’s not pictured is literal nazis with SS tattoos instigating protesters and repeatedly doing the nazi salute.

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4 years

Reminder that sheriff Tim Howard spoke at a white nationalist rally

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

i like a woman who knows how to eat. i go crazy for women who sleep when they’re tired. don’t even get me started on women who are into water and shelter

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

“you’re an old soul” thanks it was the childhood trauma

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

really lost it at emily dickinson’s grave when i realized all her relatives’ gravestones say “died” while hers says “called back”

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rachelle toarmino

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6 years

recently went on a date with a guy who said “my plants who” instead of “my plants that” and reader i will call him again

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

wish my father a merry christmas, you cowards

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

2022 is going to be my year

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

fucking love the sopranos

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

second date is making him follow @SheRatesDogs

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2 years

masculine pronounced like linguine

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rachelle toarmino

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1 year

shortening 'moving picture' to 'movie' was such a cute idea

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

who was the poet whose work changed everything for you

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

we believe in the power of uplifting poets whose work we find urgent, gorgeous, and startling. life-giving…utterly crucial! that's why for national poetry month we'll be spotlighting the 30 most financially secure and already famous poets in the united states. watch this space

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

middle school boys my therapist 🤝 "your mom"

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

aging out of urban outfitters has been the most rewarding experience of my life

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

"let me know if that makes sense!!" -final page of my next book

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

3 years

if that's your man then why does he hope his email finds me well

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

if a man mentions bukowski in a poem at an open mic do i get to go on my phone

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

babe have you see my phone yeah babe check the jamp

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

when you’re the only woman in a group of men and you keep trying to participate in the conversation and they keep acting like you’re interrupting ????

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

hey friends, i know this isn’t the most ideal time to share good news, but this, for me, is a dream:

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

some of y’all really think narcissism is enjoying your physical appearance rather than a complete failure of empathy that harms the people in your life...and it shows

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

my neck my back my pussy and my crack keep the score

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

should rax and i lead a nudes workshop on zoom

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

they’re in a zoom meeting 💻🐛 💻🦐 💻🦕 💻🐢 🐌💻

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

my book of poems is about being an ex-girlfriend and it’s on sale for $12

That Ex - Rachelle Toarmino — Big Lucks

WHATEVER’S THE RASCAL VERSION OF SUCKING MEAT OFF THE BONE IS WHAT I DO TO THE ENDS OF ALL OF MY RELATIONSHIPS 108 Pages 5.8″ x 8.3″ ISBN: 978-1-941985-10-6 Release date: June 9th, 2020 Rachelle...

www.biglucks.com

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

3 years

babe are you okay you’ve hardly let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

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rachelle toarmino

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1 year

@UBuffalo supporting the trans community so hard you have to send out an internal memo asking departments and employees to boost

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

3 years

wait wait wait i did WHAT

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

5 years

no bandcamp but i’m FINE

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

btw if you’re tenured faculty at a partially funded MFA, this is a great way to get prospective students to not apply to your program lol

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

i said obviously!!!!!!!

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

2 years

my flower poem is in the nov/dec issue of @AmPoetryReview 🌷

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

6 years

evolution of laughing online: 2001: lol 2002: haha 2003: hahah 2004: lmao 2005: lmfao 2006: hahaha 2007: hahahahah 2008: ahahahah 2009: aaaahahahah 2010: “lol” spoken out loud 2011: hahahah 2012: ha 2013: lololol 2014: lollll 2015: 😂 2016: 😂😂😂😂 2017: lmaoooo 2018: LOL

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

3 years

me: i can't afford a $300 parking pass to work for you university: hmmm that sucks! how about a free subscription to the calm app

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

8 months

when i said i couldn't wait for my wedding to be over so i could start focusing my energy on creative projects again this is what i meant

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in this ┃╱╱╲╲ house ╱╱╭╮╲╲ we ▔▏┗┛▕▔ don't ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ leave the house ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

behind every woman is at least ten mediocre men who think they taught her everything she knows

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

fuck it, tender on main

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

the fuck would i go big when i can simply go home

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

thank you joan

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

“once covid is over” is starting to feel a lot like “we have received your submission and look forward to reviewing it”

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

reading poetry manuscripts for a prize and dam…$30 submission fee really gets you a lot of white people quoting rumi in the epigraph

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

6 years

i don’t want to read your cum poem, tim

DIRT BIKE TOWN

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6 years

Censorship is good. Let us shut the bad people down. Let us allow approved speech. Let us punish writers who refuse to comply.

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

as a writer with adhd i love the em dash. interrupt my own damn self

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

now that the cat’s out of the bag, i am once again asking you to like the butt pic, which my MFA coach @juleneely made me delete for fear that department rats were following me

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

last night, in lieu of a conventional introduction, i tapped my exes to help me introduce myself. i drew from the various things they’ve said about me post-breakup. here is that introduction.

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

something i wish i knew when i was younger is that it's not normal for managers to make you cry at work

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

@todayyearsoldig bad timing to leo-post but leibowitz slayed here

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rachelle toarmino

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6 years

it is my opinion is that male poets should pay me to read their submission if it contains the word 'cum'

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

5 years

so i’m clear, we LOVE independent lit mags, but we don’t want them to: -sell ads -sell access to exclusive content -charge door fees at events -charge reading fees for a soup-style contest with a cash prize -apply for public or private grants -accept institutional support ?

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rachelle toarmino

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6 years

me after dating a man for two months: you may now look me in the eye, your application for being seen together in public has been denied, please do not touch my arm below the elbow, no pet names me after matching with a woman on tinder: how was work today baby

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

this is my favorite image on the internet right now

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

poets LOVE deer

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

which came first: punk, the noun to describe a person, or punk, the genre? if the former i hereby launch bitch, the genre

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

spicy popcorn burrito

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

thought i’d be prepared for my dad fully bullying all of niagara falls into preordering my book, but alas, i was not

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

just once i’d like sally rooney’s characters to pee after sex

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

wow okay ted cruz

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

have you read anything by anne carson

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

@fox5dc looks like shit

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rachelle toarmino

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1 year

joanne kyger

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

from now on i'm responding to men on goodreads with this @heatherchristle excerpt (from THE CRYING BOOK)

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2 years

it was the best of vibes, it was the worst of vibes

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

you’re telling me there’s a whole table of content

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

you: first day of spring! me, an intellectual: the birds are back in town

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

after nine months of worrying about this frontline worker...TODAY MY DAD GOT THE VACCINE 😭

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

what is a poet if not april’s fool

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

bullshit that books have to be about something

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

going to jstor y’all need anything

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

procrastinating, humor me: the last line of the last poem you published is the inscription on your tombstone. what is it?

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

@the_dizzy your moon is who you are when you need your mom, your rising is how your sun is delivered to others

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

i want an baby

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rachelle toarmino

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2 years

if you are a poet who offers an independent workshop, or if you know of any, could you drop the info here? students are asking! thx 🤟

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rachelle toarmino

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5 years

it's official! @Big_Lucks is publishing my debut collection of poetry, That Ex, in spring 2020. f*cking pinch me!!!!!

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

some observations

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

good morning and happy women's day. this is about woody brown.

rachelle toarmino

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3 years

reposting as i would like to make sure i have made myself absolutely clear

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rachelle toarmino

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3 years

boobs but the oo is pronounced like the oo in cooperation

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

3 years

have i gotten hotter during the pandemic? no but have i made progress on creative projects, worked toward inner peace, strengthened my relationships, and rediscovered myself and my goals? also no

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

pretty crazy that all of our unemployed asses and broke ass journals and presses are donating book sales and matching donations while establishment lit just recycles Black writers listicles!

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rachelle toarmino

@rchlltrmn

4 years

questions i asked my boyfriend’s cat today: -are you small -are you a girl -are you my friend -are you a very small friend -are you a very small friend who happens to be a girl -is that your chair -are you on your chair -is that your tail -are those your hands

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

if horny isn’t an emotion what is it

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rachelle toarmino

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4 years

whatup KINGS we're doing dicks out for bernie! dm me a screenshot of a donation receipt to bernie w/ a timestamp of 6-9 PM (nice) today (friday the 13th) to get: $1-14: response to your dick pic $15-$49: critique (of the pic, not the dick) $50+: sexy pic