GORDON MITCHELL SMITH

WILL DIE WITHOUT >YOUR< INDIVIDUAL HELP: NEED HOUSING / A JOB IN NEW YORK CITY AND WILL NOT SURVIVE SPRING 2026 WITHOUT. YOUR FAILURE TO HEED THIS CALL MAKES YOU COMPLICIT IN HIS MURDER VIA HIS CONTINUED DISENFRANCHISEMENT FROM SOCIETY. REMEMBER: THE ONLY THING KEEPING >YOU< FROM BEING >HIM< IS SHEER FUCKING LUCK. AND THE ONLY WAY HE SURVIVES 2026 IS WITH GENEROSITY THAT NO LONGER EXISTS IN THE HEARTS OF AMERICANS.

Gordon Mitchell Smith is a Nashville-born poet and writer whose work appears in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. An MFA student at New York University, he lives with his cat, Joni Mitchell Smith.

You should totally solicit work from him. He’s got bangers just lying around.

His happiness increased dramatically when he deleted all social media. So can yours.

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