Zach Forrest y Salazar

The cover of Pleiades Magazine. Yellow background and doll

Anubis by Zachary Forrest y Salazar Bring me your dog, so I may pet it. Bushy tail shedder, tongue flapper, li1 face licker asking for a treat. Bring me the light of your life so I can scratch his head (& his ass) —so he knows what a good boy he is. I want to whisper love into his ears & quietly ask to make him mine. On Kansas country roads, dogs dumped out front of the farmhouse would come find me, appearing like apparitions from dust clouds of cars leaving. Once, & never again, after my mother deserted me on the lawn; a dog appeared over my syncopal body & licked salt off my face. Dog of my pain, doggerel snout in my eye-doggone it, tail-wagging dog who circled my small body in the grass— whimpering little mongrel, this water spaniel wet with river & ears tangled in cockleburs, resurrected me—like some goddamned god. Bring me your dog, babe—& I'll worship it! T1l prostrate myself & praise its holy name. For a creature so pure, I11 doggedly sacrifice & preach the good news of dog. Any dog, miracle of God, & probably God, the Great Doggo-says: throw the ball. Says: Let us play.

Been on a dry spell, but I’d like to thank the editors of Pleiades Magazine or taking “Anubis”, which is poem dear to my heart. ❤️❤️❤️

KEEP PLANNING – Gabriel Forrest

#025 – "Sonnet Initially on -yx" by Gabriel Forrest

Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made. — Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine

Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.

(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)

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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

A tweet from Chuck Schumer: BREAKING: @RepJeffries and l are demanding a meeting with @realDonaldTrump on his decision to shut down the federal government because of the Republican desire to continue to gut the health care of the American people.

Just sack up and send a sternly written letter.

There are horrible things about the H1-B system. For example, companies take advantage of talent on those visas and pay them a lot less money for the same work.

But every single person I’ve met on an H1-B has been deserving. This decision will only hamstring us. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. 😂

It’s a bold move Cotton. Let’s see if it works out for ‘em [Tech CEOs].

How the mighty have fallen.

@jimmykimmel.com May I introduce you to @samreich.bsky.social and @dropout.tv?

Seems relevant today and every day.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152728...

Michele Tafoya 1 & @Michel..•5h S... Good morning. I went to church today for the first time in a couple of months. I was sad that the name of Charlie Kirk was not mentioned a single time. Other tragedies were mentioned. But at this particular Catholic church, nothing about Charlie. What were they afraid of? Proud Patriot 1776 & @...40m S Went to church also today hoping to hear something about Charlie Kirk. Same darn thing. They mentioned everything but him.

about to start cancelling churches lol

Responding to a Meta recruiter letting him know that if I worked at Meta, I'd kill myself.

It's been a few years, so Meta started reaching out again.

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

A screenshot of a new Bluesky feature to save posts that matter to you. But the example is a post from Jerry Chen and why are you tempting the Kraken like this.

Absolutely unhinged to use Jerry.

Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Today’s poem is selected by Todd Dillard as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“Cloudless Snowfall” appeared in Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright, published by Knopf, 2003. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Humans were never meant to write React

a pack of blood hounds looking left and grouped within them is a single fox

poet at their day job

Quiet by Zachary Forrest y Salazar Me, howling to the moon all my secrets. My father howling back.

Thank you, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social

www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/quiet-zach...

I saw that after I posted and died.

When an LLM story gets into Bread Loaf, I’ll eat my shorts.

Microsoft Implements Return to Work Somewhere Else Policy Today Microsoft confirmed rumors that its Redmond headquarters is implementing a five days a week return to work somewhere else policy for all employees.   “We tried remote, we tried hybrid, b…

Tech companies: "Gosh golly shucks I mean we have the smartest people* but letting people work from where they want to live is a problem beyond human understanding."

It's about power (having direct access to people). It's about money (commercial real estate).

theneedling.com/2025/07/18/m...

Imagine how much of an alpha male you’d have to be to file charges against someone who threw a sandwich at you, bless your wittle heart.

My experience so far is that GPT-5 is trash for coding.

As with employment gains, America’s GDP growth is highly imbalanced: An explosion in AI infrastructure spending is playing an outsize part in sustaining our economic expansion. Over the past six months, the artificial intelligence buildout has contributed more to American economic growth than all of consumer spending, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Mims. Should anything cause America’s tech companies to pull back on data center construction, the US economy could quickly sputter.

hey chat is this good

www.vox.com/politics/422...

Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.

Mark my words, Evangelicals will try and undo civil rights.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Fuck Israel.