Dear 2025

F —k off and die.

Projects That Needed to End in 2025: The Tuesday Poems

My series The Tuesday Poems is how I kickstarted my Patreon years ago. By early 2025, I knew it had to end. It became a form of laziness to continue adding to the project and not start anything new. So I ended it.

I new writing poems based on my worst working experience ever would get me a lot of mileage, but there were limits. Arguably I started hitting those limits back in 2024.I'm glad I was sensible enough to stop.

I didn't even have the sense to group them as a collection on Patreon when I started writing the poems all the way back in 2022. I will be doing that soon as I figure out what final form these poems will take.

I kept telling myself that if I made a final collection of these poems exclusive to Patreon, not all of them would be collected unless serious revisions were made  to some. 

The worst thing about the series towards the end were the photos. I ran out of ideas of what kind of photo to include with each entry to the point where I started to repeat myself. No wonder I started using one graphic per series moving forward.

We'll see if I involve a publisher or just go it alone in 2026.These were necessary poems to write. They just might not all be necessary to publish. 

Happy Holidays!

 Be sure to submit to The Christmas Wars over at Oddball Magazine.

New from the Front! Returned Last Night

 Taking baby steps to making content again.

Part Two of my Ouroboros Series (longer)

Part 3 (or 2b) coming. Part One here.

 

 

Life Is Too Weird

If a political cartoonist drew a picture of Lady Liberty's head as a chew toy in the possession of a bulldog known for destroying many weaker toys, the editor would reject it for being too ridiculous a visual metaphor.

From Last Night

Decided to do a video version of my latest City Haiku. 

@chadpoetforhire Something different for the day. #fy #foryou #fyp #foryoupage #fypシ゚viral #fypシ #poetry #haiku #cityhaiku #america #2025 ♬ original sound - Chad Poet for Hire

 

City Haiku

America's sky

a trail of unfallen tears

following you home. 

Happy Fourth!

Help

I still have residual 2024 on me.

It won't come off. No matter how much I bathe.

WHY WON'T IT COME OFF?

Dear 2025

F--k you in advance. 

New 2025 Goal

To not be a loser for an entire year.