HeyJaredThe Factory Poet
Former UAW chief steward turned full-time poet, writer and novelist. Living in a RV. Voted best writer in Toledo in 2024.
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Jokes For Funerals (opens the original)
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Good morning. Happy Sunday. I’m grateful to see you here. Please make yourself comfortable and enjoy the poem of the week.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedJokes For Funerals on a day that featured Wednesday Adams weather with a wind so strong that it whipped the whiskers off a wildcat the cicadas went quiet and so did I as I got stoned then had this revelation: denying food to the hungry and shelter to the homeless are sins that Jesus wou
Big Spoon Goals (opens the original)
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Good morning my friends. I’m glad to see you here on this fine Sunday morning. Two short poems for this week. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="474" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ti46!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
All It Takes To Make My Day (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday. I’m glad to see we all made it through last week, and we’re all here ready to take on another. This week’s poem is brand new. I wrote it a couple of days ago when there was a T-Mobile tower outage, something that happens out here in the boonies at least once a month.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAll It Takes To Make My Day two new pens full of ink and potential a notebook with at least two thirds of its pages still empty some
The Big Door Prize (opens the original)
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Dear Substack subscribers, I’m doing a big prize drive, to rally up money to get to Portsmouth next week for a few days, to wrap up all of the remaining film needed for the indie movie I have a starring role in, and to get people to look at, and become a paid subscriber to my Patreon account. I’m hoping to build a stable monthly income from my Patreon, even if it’s only a small amount.First, in one paragraph, this is the exclusive content you can expect in the coming months on Patreon. Blooper r
The Village Library in Pioneer, OH (opens the original)
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Good morning. Happy Sunday. I’m so glad that you’re here. Stay a bit. Pull up a chair and enjoy the poem of the week. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe Village Library in Pioneer, OH a village library in a nondescript building contains the entire world behind its door. on a summer afternoon visit there are a passel of kids eating the free lunch the county provides, they’re painting dinosaurs, laughing and buzzing with fun. they are
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