Sorry If I’ve Been Obscene, I’m Just A Relic Of The Holocene

Eight poems about the humanity of being a writer

Dash MacIntyre
4 min readNov 27, 2023

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Photo by Gleb Lucky on Unsplash

[I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday! These following poems will be featured in my upcoming poetry book, Moon Goon.]

The Spectacular Specialization Of Labor

the peregrination of humanity

is in growing wheat for hallucinogenic beer

and then steady stable consistent food

building cities around the fertile spots

and specializing labor ever more creatively.

live a life of personal eras and flaunt your artistic renaissances

charming those who watch you grow

happy to never count you out.

looking through an old notebook

I found a page ripped out and wondered what it had been

what secret I destroyed

or message I tore out and passed

or embarrassment of art I wanted scratched from the record.

I’m my only biographer I’ll ever have

and I’ll never know.

10,000 Hours

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.