an observation on this #VerseThursday: the vast majority of my output these last couple months has been created specifically for certain people or for specific contexts (birthday poems, group prompts, the Poetry for Pedestrians), which makes my work feel... not better or worse, but more mercantile? like the "party trick" aspect of it gets played up?

I *have* started writing what is going to (hopefully) be a slightly longer project, this gooey wide-eyed sci-fi thing I've been threatening for a while that will either be awesome or laughable, I can't tell