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I need to stop projecting my expectations on to the weather

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Apr 27, 2023
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Ayooo! Sorry you haven’t heard from us in a hot second. PTK has had A LOT cooking i.e. …

houses flooding, getting on exclusive influencer lists, ducks taking over our terraces, making plans with the next PTK squatter, and OF COURSE, preparing for the launch of our first editorial issue 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 HOT PEOPLE HAVE A SPRING AWAKENING 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 dropping this Saturday, April 29th!!

Tell all your friends! It’s going to feature the spring-iest and mood-iest poetry, art, and music selected from our open call. WE CAN’T WAIT.

As Larissa is dipping her ear into the ocean for the first time, and I am avoiding the King’s Day shenanigans in Amsterdam (on my terrace, with the aforementioned ducks), here’s a piece to tide you over until Saturday.

xx K


if I’m being honest

if I’m being honest, the invisible hand is just your mom who did all the laundry and made sure the bills were paid 

if I’m being honest, the collective dream logic never lies

if I’m being honest, I can only come at 11:11

if I’m being honest, retiring from the role of game master sounds like a relief

if I’m being honest, I skipped out on the bill at dinner the other night because nobody would pay attention to me 

if I’m being honest, I wrote all this on the ferry while listening to Getaway Car by Taylor Swift

if I’m being honest, I was having coffee & Kafka at Cafe Mocha exactly 13 years ago today

if I’m being honest, I just want a tired King

if I’m being honest, ducks are the biggest opportunists 

if I’m being honest, I don’t ship the monarchy 

if I’m being honest, burnout is just when your body remembers the resistance that had always been there

if I’m being honest, I probably have a mood disorder

if I’m being honest, my version of hairpin dropping is posting a power washing video to Silk Chiffon on my instagram stories

if I’m being honest, they had the most romantic hands

if I’m being honest, I need to stop projecting my expectations on to the weather

if I'm being honest, my love language is body doubling 

if I’m being honest, I won’t know until I try

if I’m being honest, I flip off that new building every time I'm on my way to the exhibition

if I’m being honest, art is just a conduit for making friends

if I’m being honest, I’m holding the grief in my back again 

if I'm being honest, sue me

And that’s a wrap! We’re sooo excited to share everything we have prepared for you in the next few months!! Thank you for supporting us in our master plan towards becoming the first ever poetry millionaires (because we cannot girl boss any longer and billionaires are unethical). ✌️

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Kiana Donae
Writes For the Muse
Apr 28Liked by Poetry Trapper Keeper

I can't wait to see what's coming. Poetry millionaires...yes please!!!

Also if I'm being honest.....this was an amazing poem.

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Arjan Tupan
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Apr 28·edited Apr 28Liked by Poetry Trapper Keeper

Amazing. If I'm being honest, this is fun reading.

Here's to the next and first poetry millionaires.

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