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@islafissure

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andrew writes about love • he is thirty and no longer single • his debut CAPTIVA is available NOW 🍒 @CherryDress_

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andrew ketcham
4 months
sometimes its hard to imagine technological wonders like Turkish coffee and maritime navigation being discovered by humans without computers but then a post like this reminds me our extraordinary problem solving skills are what place us atop the evolutionary food chain
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andrew ketcham
4 months
I am once again thinking of this @KimmieWolf poem which might just be the best thing I’ve ever read
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andrew ketcham
2 years
i look like this kinda
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andrew ketcham
1 year
Hey hi I just sold my debut chap 😈
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andrew ketcham
3 years
there’s gotta be more to life…… THAN CHASING DOWN EVERY TEMPORARY HIIIIIGH ~~to satiSFY MeEEeEe
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andrew ketcham
6 months
that mean lesbian personal trainer in your city who don’t play about Dashboard Confessional and her pitbull rescues
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6 months
Barry Keoghan attends the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards.
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andrew ketcham
8 months
Happy Chanel o Ween
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andrew ketcham
2 years
@meghanrienks and that man was Gabbie Hanna
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andrew ketcham
9 months
What exactly do y’all think Lexapro does… quickly
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Baby I know she off a good dose of lexapro. I know it.
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andrew ketcham
2 years
finished a harness today :)
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andrew ketcham
2 years
we, as a society, need to work harder at stigmatizing adults who only read YA
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andrew ketcham
7 months
The gay audience of today has never been to the ballet (save the Nutcracker) and hyperfixates on pop music golems crafted by record label executives it’s so Joever for us
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Tim Fitzgerald
7 months
Far often than none, I return to this clip of Fran Lebowitz discussing not only the great artists we lost to AIDS, but more importantly the audience.
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andrew ketcham
4 years
@vargasalex_ @coochiemeat @CUBoulder @PiBetaPhiHQ is this the kind of values you teach to your members? Is this how you want your organization reflected? Please terminate this woman’s membership.
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andrew ketcham
1 year
this weekend I got my eyebrow punched out by an expensive hair dryer and my wallet stolen at a gay bar but my piece is still in consideration at @TBQuarterly and I’m holding onto that like a limp squirrel in the jaws of a greyhound ❤️
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andrew ketcham
8 months
I did one
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andrew ketcham
4 months
I have to be the sluttiest differently abled Italian American at this McAllisters Deli
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andrew ketcham
4 months
@bigugly Bombay Bicycle Club
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andrew ketcham
6 months
merry oomfmas christies
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andrew ketcham
4 years
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andrew ketcham
2 years
would u still love me if i became a nasty pig fitted cap homosexual ?
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andrew ketcham
2 years
sup fraggots
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andrew ketcham
1 year
@jakebyrnewrites @MonicaJewinsky It’s more about the wash / color / quality than fit, here tho. Those aren’t even really skinny’s, either, they’re just unflattering and cheap looking.
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andrew ketcham
2 years
yr a dildo harry
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andrew ketcham
8 months
Nina West tripping over her size fourteen stacked heel converse to boot lick for Amy Schumer
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andrew ketcham
10 months
Just finished first day of new job everybody clap/tell me how handsome I looked
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andrew ketcham
11 months
$8 stands between me and a potential love story of the ages.
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Richard Siken
11 months
@islafissure Hi Andrew. Yes, single.
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andrew ketcham
1 year
nice different unusual (sunscreen on the corner of my mouth)
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andrew ketcham
1 year
saw someone get fingered on the dancefloor of the Caroline Polachek x Ethel Cain show
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andrew ketcham
3 years
@isaurarenwrites His poem “Address to the Anorexic” which effectively granted his access to elite writing programs, undergrad scholarships, scholastic awards + thereby his entire career was cribbed from a poem written by Nicole Dixon in Yale Literary’s 2002 issue lmao.....
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andrew ketcham
2 years
cut my own hair everyone clap
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andrew ketcham
11 months
is @richardsiken single? looking? I don’t know if he’s heard but my name is Andrew I’m thirty I write about love and I’m single.
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andrew ketcham
4 months
I had a really incredible book release party this weekend like 50+ people showed and my best friend surprised me with a giant tank of medical grade nitrous and we did balloons and everyone laughed really hard at my pieces about gooning and Dido and weaponized polyamory
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andrew ketcham
3 years
I wasn’t by myself during COVID. I was 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 myself.
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andrew ketcham
2 years
need someone to slap the sadness out of me and caress my boobies
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andrew ketcham
2 years
stoned “boy” (29M) seeks emotionally immature but financially responsible man (39+) to star in my upcoming project: getting married before my wrinkles fully set
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andrew ketcham
8 months
it’s been a long time coming but I’m so happy to announce that my debut chapbook CAPTIVA is officially forthcoming through @CherryDress_ in the new year! Huge ups to my home girl @KolleenCarney who swept in and saved this book (and me) 🖤❤️ artwork by @kostiukwilliams ❤️🖤
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andrew ketcham
7 months
me trying to accomplish a task while in a k-hole:
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andrew ketcham
2 years
legitimately cant believe some of y’all wake up hyped by that blonde lady’s word salad like be serious! i can’t pretend to tolerate swifties anymore it’s like humoring a barn cat that fell from too great a height at too young an age
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andrew ketcham
11 months
just cut my own hair
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andrew ketcham
1 year
feeling very
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andrew ketcham
2 years
hey goonfies
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andrew ketcham
2 years
hydrologic outlook my dong
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andrew ketcham
2 months
taking my boyfriend to your restaurants opening event (he’s a restaurateur and I’m a homosexual critic with an axe to grind)
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andrew ketcham
11 months
am I having a stroke
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andrew ketcham
11 months
spent an hour taking nudes that only 12 people will see in my circle btw I’m about to post nudes to my circle
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andrew ketcham
1 year
gm gay people
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andrew ketcham
1 year
feeling v mister manager today haha what if we kissed
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andrew ketcham
11 months
@richardsiken If you’re ever in Chicago I would love to make you some soup
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andrew ketcham
4 months
134 Reposts 1.5k likes…. yall gonna show this much love to my favorite poem of MINE?
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andrew ketcham
4 months
I am once again thinking of this @KimmieWolf poem which might just be the best thing I’ve ever read
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andrew ketcham
1 year
ngl i do think studying literature / theory in undergrad will prove more useful than previously expected not bc I think I’m going to be financially successful in that world but bc it’s beginning to feel like 98% of the adult population can’t read
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andrew ketcham
4 months
I’m no party pooper but if u did coke off my snoopy table I would never let you darken my doorstep again just so you know
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lissy
5 months
doing coke off this
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andrew ketcham
1 year
hey i cut my stitches out would y’all still kiss me w this big eyebrow scar
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andrew ketcham
9 months
just got off the plane like fresh tilapia
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andrew ketcham
5 months
@joyci_schecter U can’t strip black dye out of hair without it turning this exact shade lol and any stylist who says they can is lying don’t ever dye ur hair black again especially box dye.
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andrew ketcham
1 year
POV: you’re a strange tiny little man no larger than a grain of rice and i just noticed you nibbling at my freshly peeled orange SECOND SLIDE: i have grown tired of your little tiny man antics and am considering the moral ramifications of feeding you to a pigeon
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andrew ketcham
2 years
hi oomfs
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andrew ketcham
1 year
hi diva, can I call you diva?
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andrew ketcham
1 year
say cheese
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andrew ketcham
9 months
albums that defined my teen years
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derek 2 on the beach
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albums that defined my teen years
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andrew ketcham
11 months
hello I showered and perfumed and gua sha’d and moisturized and oiled my scalp and coordinated an outfit and went out and spent money on drinks and stood around the gay equivalent to the club penguin spawning page and smoked and took this picture in the bathroom after peeing
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andrew ketcham
10 months
Writers on twitter absolute GOATs at having the worst bios. “Poet. Editor. Father. Husband. ‘Laureate of Lapis’ (IRRITABLE BOWEL PRESS 2024) BOTN x 5 • WigleafTop50 waitlist• recent words: Celiac, GREG LOUGANIS REVIEW and Taco Bell Quarterly (forthcoming) 📚 now querying!”
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andrew ketcham
2 years
also I slimmed my circle down to ppl I thought would be ok w seeing my nudes……… what’s a non geeky way of saying tell me if u want to be added
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andrew ketcham
7 months
This is like… monumental for me. I’ve spent ten years rotting away in the retail and service sectors. Barred from any real success because I’m 5 classes short of a degree. Now I can finish and go to grad school and become an adjunct English professor and 😭
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andrew ketcham
1 year
Gooner summit @_shay_kitoff
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andrew ketcham
4 months
additional reports coming in…. looking into it…… huge if true
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andrew ketcham
4 months
hearing rumors im seeing an older greek man who owns a restaurant and loves music and has a saltwater fish tank just like the one i had when i was 16 and first started sleeping with older men
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andrew ketcham
5 months
JUST GOT THE LIVE LINK FOR MY DEBUT BOOK CAPTIVA THIS IS NOT A DRILL I JUST GOT THE LIVE LINK FOR MY DEBUT BOOK CAPTIVA 😭
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andrew ketcham
5 months
to honor all boys seeking fathers in the wrong men, ive got a new poem up over in @PassagesNorth issue 45
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andrew ketcham
2 years
purr besties amiright?
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andrew ketcham
7 months
well, I [did] it
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andrew ketcham
7 months
omg I’m like two seconds away from giving myself a buzzcut again I hate my hair so fuckin much rn
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andrew ketcham
3 months
My 45 year old boyfriend has no idea Beyonce released a new album today. He’s currently in the office of the restaurant he owns sending me Grateful Dead memes and pictures of expensive corals he wants to buy for his aquarium. Life is Good.
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andrew ketcham
2 years
keep trying to write a piece for @TBQuarterly but I just get hungry and end up @ Taco Bell
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andrew ketcham
1 year
just spent 3 hours helping an enby move one block call that a sock hop
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andrew ketcham
10 months
On this day 5 years ago I was at Burning Man in a terrible fight with a much older lover so I stormed out of camp and saw this big furry blue thing down the street and asked what was going on and they said glamour shots and that’s how this picture of me got taken at Tickled Mink
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andrew ketcham
2 years
hi gay people only
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andrew ketcham
1 year
we say hi
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andrew ketcham
2 years
shoulda never listened to that SZA album now I’m bald in a underground pedestrian walkway
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andrew ketcham
1 year
oh btw remember that job interview I mentioned for the role that could almost triple my salary? I just got the offer :)
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andrew ketcham
2 years
baby’s first @PassagesNorth acceptance 🥺
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andrew ketcham
7 months
did u guys know I was president of my frat lol
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nat 🇲🇸🇦🇬
7 months
Since we’re on the topic, show me the most 2010s picture you have 😭😂
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andrew ketcham
1 year
something LGBT happened and we made sure to report it to our local authorities @chlumbucket + @bachlover1958
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andrew ketcham
1 year
who wants to play husband and wife im wife btw
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andrew ketcham
2 years
newbie submission call update: I GOT MY FIRST FUCKING SKULL LETS GOOOOO 💀
NEWBIE SUBMISSION CALL UPDATE: Getting a handful of check-ins. We got a little overwhelmed by the response (550!) & also life got kinda crazy this week, so taking a little longer than normal skull-time to get to everything... should get through them all by end of week! Thx! 💀💀
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andrew ketcham
2 months
Reminder that I’m guest editing @bodyfluidslit Issue 05: SEX NEGATIVE and here’s what I want. Submission guidelines available @bodyfluidslit DEADLINE MAY 1st
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andrew ketcham
1 year
knowing full well I walk 20 minutes and take the train for 45 to get to and from work, my ex-boss got me a 10lb hobnail vase with the longest stem roses possible + a bottle of Prosecco as a going away gift
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andrew ketcham
1 year
so anyway … im leaving !
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andrew ketcham
1 year
my brain hurts
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andrew ketcham
2 years
hey miss mamas
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andrew ketcham
7 months
In 2014 I had to drop out of college just 15 credits shy of graduating because my parents spent all their money on the divorce + a tuition increase meant my scholarship no longer fully covered it. Today my moms boyfriend asked how much I owe to release transcripts and cut a check
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andrew ketcham
2 years
katy perry sued a nun to death
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andrew ketcham
1 year
Lisa Frankincense and Myrrh
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andrew ketcham
1 year
i will be here every day I remain unemployed
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andrew ketcham
10 months
bitch I live like this ?
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andrew ketcham
1 year
kinda fruity ngl @velourjock
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andrew ketcham
5 months
actually it’s totally okay to write off generative AI users as fake artists. There’s actually nothing wrong with looking down on the digital automation of art. It’s not about “stealing jobs” from human artists. It just sucks lol idk why this is a hard concept for some of you
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andrew ketcham
2 years
thought abt posting a nude off circles but changed my mind 💔
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