patient zero of vegas phantom limb syndromehttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mfeqvq3qhc2rFriendship in liminal Vegas. "Amber Delenda Est" © 2026 exile on twain street | richard powell #poetry #vegasverse #malegaze #felonyfaerie21 Feb 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfeqvq3qhc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mf53ra566k2fMy short piece on Substack, “Todesfuge.” #poetry #paulcelan #todesfuge #adorno18 Feb 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf53ra566k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mf2xocs3cc22A short essay on Gertrude Stein's “Tender Buttons” on my substack, Exile on Twain Street.17 Feb 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf2xocs3cc22https://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mdvnihrlas2qIf the ethnic connotation of the names of the Border Patrol agents who murdered Alex Pretti implies anything, it implies that the profiling being done by Border Patrol and ICE is not only unconstitutional, it's refuted from the get by the ethnicity of their agents. https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez02 Feb 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdvnihrlas2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mdg6zkx4sc2a“Bastards of Verse” Poetry of poets having permission to be ponces, by yours truly. ©️2025 exile on twain street | richard powell Substack: https://substack.com/@exileontwainstreet27 Jan 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdg6zkx4sc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mdf5wwvuds2hWe're approaching immigration and the border 'crisis' as if they're real. What's real is that we need open borders as a simple fact of economics. We get three things for free with this paradigm shift: --Our humanity --Greater prosperity --Reduced bigotry https://open.substack.com/pub/exileontwainstreet/p/the-second-of-two-ways-were-fcking?r=a9n2j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true27 Jan 2026 06:45 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdf5wwvuds2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mdf5vhxg7s2hAbolishing ICE isn't enough. https://open.substack.com/pub/exileontwainstreet/p/the-first-of-two-ways-were-fcking?r=a9n2j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true27 Jan 2026 06:45 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdf5vhxg7s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mdbxzlwa5k2w“Let ‘em play in the playoffs! Don't throw a flag unless there's blood!” Tom Brady, who made the Super Bowl on the Tuck Rule.26 Jan 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbxzlwa5k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mdbtavcnjk2vFor a moment the red mist clears, and I can summon my voice on the topic of the Battle of Minneapolis. #poetry #vegasverse #minneapolis #abolishice25 Jan 2026 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbtavcnjk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3md7gufbqas25There is no way to look at the second presidency of Donald Trump without assigning responsibility to this man. The rise of UFC corresponds with the rise of Joe Rogan. Let's not stop on Rogan. Rohan is only part of the milieu of low-information young men whipped into a fervor by Dana White. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jan 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7gufbqas25https://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3md6nnwx3ok2sFrom “Bradley, Inbound, Unbound.”24 Jan 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3md6nnwx3ok2shttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3md5vpl4s4s2mBitchslap Joshua A poem by me about expecting too much of a succulent. #Poetry #VegasVerse24 Jan 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3md5vpl4s4s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3md5lwyesp22xThere is no spoon.24 Jan 2026 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3md5lwyesp22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3md2iz3kq522aLet's just put this out there and stop avoiding it. If a group of men would like to gang r.ape a woman, all they need is to cosplay as an ICE unit. That's the world that we’ve enabled with masked, unidentified, unwarranted abduction. https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-crime/fbi-urges-ice-to-id-themselves-as-criminals-impersonate-officers/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPfp0FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeh2mZKxcyxNiliAppESiBrzR3vf-oCvePVnkLsWnZgWZ4rDE2fY0keqmskIs_aem_ZjyrRUM4fMU49I9aa0IR2A23 Jan 2026 01:04 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3md2iz3kq522ahttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcztwvy6gk2o22 Jan 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcztwvy6gk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcziraa4ac2d“Without us, you'd all be speaking German." -Donald Trump in Davos, Switzerland, where everyone speaks German.22 Jan 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcziraa4ac2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcsdsikwlc2wHoly shit, that was a text message to the president of Denmark? World leaders, learn from American girls. Always give a fake phone number to the chuds!19 Jan 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcsdsikwlc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcs6m5p5fc2hDonald the Dotard in the Dome (My post in Substack) https://substack.com/@exileontwainstreet/note/p-185085967?r=a9n2j&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action19 Jan 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcs6m5p5fc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcrtd423422aI'll never be able to abide that there is a 36% core of support for the grotesquery of our political epoch. This poem is about how that feels.19 Jan 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrtd423422ahttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcq52gw74s2yAs long as there's still an unimpeded view from the Trump aparthotel to the dildo museum, I can't imagine him complaining. @lasvegaslocally.bsky.social18 Jan 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcq52gw74s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mcmxnzvqes2aMy essay from MLK Day 2019 "Black Ponds from Above." https://open.substack.com/pub/exileontwainstreet/p/black-ponds-from-above-from-2019?r=a9n2j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true17 Jan 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcmxnzvqes2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3mckxldjpus2cThe Magic Trees of Los Angeles. A Substack post. https://substack.com/@exileontwainstreet/note/p-184518811?r=a9n2j&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action16 Jan 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckxldjpus2chttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3lzqenwjkms2dThe Church places a second temple on the edge of town. Iit’s fitting. My former faith engages only itself. It speaks. It doesn’t listen. It’s a parochial pastoral parasitic anachronism sucking a tithe of 10% that it will never invest in our community. https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/09/25/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-lone-mountain-lds-temple-las-vegas/26 Sep 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzqenwjkms2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3lzgnwqer5c2iIf the guy had the power to save lives by taking bullets, why’d he wait so long? I wouldn’t want all those unsaved lives on my conscience, would you? Clearly, he should’ve started taking bullets sooner.22 Sep 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzgnwqer5c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3lzfaelnozc2gA poem for my wife of ten years twenty-five years ago.22 Sep 2025 01:17 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzfaelnozc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3lz2aq2ucls22When one pic says it all. (Courtesy CityNerd, a former Vegas transit engineer.)17 Sep 2025 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2aq2ucls22https://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3ludncc55oc2kGallery of Presidental Doodles (Swipe through the gallery for charming insights on a few former occupants of the Oval Office.) In order, we have: Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Donald Trump19 Jul 2025 18:57 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3ludncc55oc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3ludld2px2s2yWhereupon we settle at Donald Trump’s equilibrium of imbecility: Immigration restrictions and deportations result in artificial scarcity in labor supply. Tariffs restore the balance by making sure there’s nothing for anyone to do anyway—artificially reduced labor demand. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jul 2025 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3ludld2px2s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/exileontwainstreet.bsky.social/post/3lt4gxmjbnk2iMy only concession to Republicans after today is to tell them this: “You may be right about our cultural and educational institutions. I agree they were wasting money if the results are idiots like you."04 Jul 2025 04:50 +0000at://did:plc:kpgizdwirorsquws2h7phpof/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt4gxmjbnk2i