🍾✨And it would have totally been my year too, if only I hadn’t

shat the bed

and

Jan 10, 2024

OMG HOT POETS! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

It’s me, your favorite Leo, Larissa. Happy new year! Wait, did I already say that? Sorry, my brain has been smoothed by the unrelenting fingers of December. I have been thinking about how to write this post and I haven’t quite figured it out but my one New Year’s resolution is to stick to the PTK publishing schedule, so here we go, forgive my smooth brain.

Kelly and I have been talking a lot (nothing new there) about what this project means (also old news). In considering the creation of new communal traditions, we have been reflecting on our old ones. Truthfully, despite my general cynicism and carefully curated aloof writing voice, I do love New Year’s Eve. It’s always been my favorite holiday. Perhaps it’s my cancer moon + Venus which make me overly sentimental around dates, or it’s the Brazilian in me who has a Pavlovian hope response to a beach of people wearing white and letting the new waves baptize their feet.

Whatever it may be, from sunrise on Dec 31st to sunset on January 1st, I feel something truly special.

And then January 2nd rolls around and everything SUCKS ASS AGAIN AND OMG THE WORLD IS LITERALLY ON FIRE AND THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE DONT SEEM TO CARE AND LIKE??????? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!!!! AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT???

So, in order to keep myself from totally dissociating until Dec. 31st 2024, here are some attempts at new traditions!

For this week’s poem I was inspired by a wish to keep the gifting season going, Co-Star’s Bingo Cards, and our upcoming workshop HOT PEOPLE DON’T MAKE RESOLUTIONS (sorry, it’s all booked up but watch this space for some exciting updates!). So here, I present you, PTK NEW YEAR BINGO (in poetry form obvi):

How to play:

Generate your own unique bingo card here
Use the following poem as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a star, a single tear, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

And it would have totally been my year too, if only I hadn’t

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

	1.	Given up on absolution
	2.	Overcooked 
	3.	Felt that scratch in my throat 
	4.	Snoozed 
	5.	Revolutioned 
	6.	Resolutioned
	7.	Absolutioned
	8.	Disappointed my dog
	9.	Spilled milk 
	10.	Cried about it 
	11.	Finished the leftovers 
	12.	Migrained 
	13.	Migrated
	14.	Undid it all 
	15.	Lost the thread
	16.	Overwrote 
	17.	Stashed the draft 
	18.	Over shared 
	19.	Shat the bed 
	20.	Acclimated 
	21.	Pomodoroed
	22.	Overcried 
	23.	Underperformed 
	24.	Sisyphused
	25.	Burned toast 
	26.	One-person-showed
	27.	Eulogized the winter 
	28.	Manifested lactobacillus 
	29.	Gut helped 
	30.	Indebted myself 
	31.	Whole Foods fed

Did you have fun? Should we do a collective game over zoom? Were you too cool to click the link? That’s fine, here are some other bingo-poem-cards to look at:

What did I hear? You need even more fun experimental poetry? Well, you’re in luck cause together with our instagram followers we wove this little collaborative piece during yesterday’s Tiny Poem Tuesday:

Ok, I do have a headache and my ADHD is bad today; besides Kelly will be here next week and she is better at talking to y’all anyway (not telling her what to do just being factual!) I love y’all, Happy New Year!

Xoxo, L

Your poetry prompt is to finish the poem in the comments: