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Joseph Fasano

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Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being

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Joseph Fasano·Dec 3

I will never, ever get over this.

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Joseph Fasano·Aug 4

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.

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Joseph Fasano·Aug 4

This will forever be the most amazing email.

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Joseph Fasano·Jun 14

for today—and every day

For Those Who Stand Against Tyrants

There are still your stories, still stars
in the pine trees. There are still children
making their way back from school, trying
not to step on cracks in the sidewalks,
believing it matters. There are still mothers
kneeling in the ruins, promising
the gunshots aren't coming. 
There are still fathers 
alone in the night, the wounds in them
like mule-deer in the orchards, trying not
to clack their antlers. There is still
the heart, the moon.
Come, loves, let's stand here
after madness. The world 
is not over, only broken. 
There are old books, there are horses
in the lemon trees. There are children, still,
waiting in the classrooms, looking up
with tired eyes full of wonder.
Look at them. There is work we have to do.

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If the cosmos took billions of years to make you, if the iron in your blood was forged by stars, if your hair is stardust, if your heart is starlight, why, why would you waste your life thinking you were here to be anything other than the greatest flame in the frozen darkness: love.

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I really think the Artemis mission has made most people feel that this is what humanity has to do:

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what can I do / if I can't change it?

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If you'd like me to come chat with your community about poetry, peace, and change, just message or email me, or reach out to my team at TheFasanoAcademy@gmail.com.

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Taking out your unresolved childhood drama on another person is a reason for self-reflection. Taking it out on the entire world is a reason for impeachment.

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I was putting my 4yo to bed, and he looked at me and asked, "Daddy, did we come from the same star?" Children are infinite. And they're all like that, everywhere in the world.

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When people ask what power the poets have...

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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain. —James Baldwin

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***For Those Who Lived Under the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation***




Know that some of us did not want this.
Know that some of us
held our children in the nights
and knew they were no different from your children,
their little sleeves all made of wool and cotton.
Know that men were death, 
but some were not.
 
Indifference did this. A man
of ash. His madness. 
 
We tried. We failed
our time
so vastly.
 
And when it came,
when the sky broke wholly open,
and the fire fell
and the children glanced into the radiance,
 
we hope, we hope
that you blamed us.
 
Because all this time
there was life, and time, and blood in us.
And words, and earth, and burning.
And the final light, the last good scrap
of the truth in us
that could have stood, and rushed
the men who did this,
and Jesus Christ like a flood among the temples
whipped them out with the beautiful rage of God.

                                                                  —Joseph Fasano
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