sort525 Esse (paperback, 2023)
Self-portraity Essays by
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¶ Like all or nearly all my books, this contains so-called explicit content: I always tick the box for warning people of that, but sometimes it doesn't take, so I'm also telling you here.
¶ As always, this is offered at the lowest price they’ll let me; I get no money from anything on here.
¶ The actual date of first being printed is August 31, 2023. This version, with corrections and new material, was made available January 29, 2026.
¶ contains:
Actual Letters
Actual Mnemonics Used To Help My Mother Memorize Airline Codes When She Had To Stop Being a Healthcare Worker and Become a Travel Agent
{an essay about how efficiency is bad, whose title contains a naughty word}
Aspirin
Bad Humor
Bon Affect
The Book-piece
The Comma Story
Damned Dirty Ape
Deader’n a Taco
The Death-trap Story
Definitions
Deserving Neither
The Dinner Story
Do Not Rank My Choice
Driving, Miss Crazy
The Egg Story
Evaluating the Seventies
{an essay about the nature of power, whose title contains a naughty word}
Hah: bum-hug
Have a Cuppa Tea
The Glizfickable Meejee
The Hemp Story
A Horrid Expression
“I Can Hum This Tune Forever”
I Got Nothin’
iiii
I’m Too Foot-tall
in anticipation…why I willnae charge money for my books
in anticipation…why my macintosh is named Athsmoantarte
The Infamous List
I Quant Get Enough
It’s My Party, and I’ll Scream If I Want To
The Eighty-ninth Iteration of the Keyhole Piece
The Many Faces of Minnie Sosa
Merry Calendar
{an essay about two specific pieces of music, whose title is a naughty word}
My Father’s Obituary
My Fortieth Birthday
My Hometown Is a Hospital
Never Have You Ever
Not Angry, Mad
On Both Your Houses
Other^kin (Please^Don’t Specify)
Other (Please Specify)
Out-takes
A Partial List of Things I Won’t Do
Piece on My Cat
Poets Do It with Rhythm
Portrait in Blue #53
Reality Bytes
The Rights Story
Shh
A Short Digression on the Meaning of the Word “Art”
Sleepy’s Third Law
Sleepy's Laws
Some Things Everybody But I Get Wrong
Superior Creatures
A Super-short Digression on the Meaning of the Word “Poem”
Things To Do with a Million Dollars
Try, or choose not to try
Turtles All the Way Round (the essay)
We Breed Like Rabbits
When Einstein Created the Fish, He Was Only Joking
Details
- Publication Date
- Aug 18, 2023
- Language
- English
- Category
- Social Science
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Zero (CC 0)
- Contributors
- By (author): Sleepy Read
Specifications
- Pages
- 431
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Novella (5 x 8 in / 127 x 203 mm)