Erik Kennedy

@erikkennedy

Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids. 📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch

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Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· 18d

Lil poem in Instagram-only mag 'Mote'. 🏹

Erik Kennedy
'Sport Isn't Political'

The king made me learn archery.
The muscles I grew warped my body.
I shot an arrow so accurately that it split me in half:
who I was before, and who I became after.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbHHOi0lKRZ/

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https://www.instagram.com/erikcurtiskennedy/

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· 18d

That sounds fucking horrible.

Norman Rockwell's 'Freedom of Speech'. Image of a man getting up at a public meeting to speak his mind.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· 18d

Postcode Apparatchik
@MaoistStdEn

Years of effort to convince the world New Zealanders don't want to fuck sheep has gone down the drain in one tweet

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lulu
@ehukuu
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20h
I WANT TO FUCK THE KIWIBANK SHEEP
1:25 AM · Jul 24, 2026
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364.6K Views

https://x.com/i/status/2080283180809224392

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· 25d

Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· 28d

Dolphin rainbow world image with the word THANKS over it.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· 29d

This is the kind of passion it takes to rise to the top of the palaeontogy game. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nilpanapan told BBC Thai the features, in particular a unique air-cavity structure, were "unlike any other dinosaur in the world... That's what sets it apart".

He said he smashed his computer after realising they had discovered a new species, adding that he felt both "exhilarated and relieved".

The study was published in the Nature scientific journal earlier this week.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jul 11

Lol at the description of Luis Suárez having 'done some damage' at World Cups.

Image sequence of Luis Suárez biting Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jul 7

Brooks Otterlake
@i_zzzzzz

They should put more wearable tech on the referee. He should be encrusted with devices

12:47 PM · Jul 7, 2026 · 145K Views

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jul 7

Yes, supporting rapists is an authentic leftist position. You're definitely a good-faith actor.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jul 7

There is no difference here.

Colin Firth in 'Pride and Prejudice' (1995). Franz Beckenbauer (1972).

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jun 30

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jun 25

'I like the plasmic nature of your data modelling.' From 'The Thick of It', S03E04.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jun 17

That's one of Hockney's late Normandy paintings.

David Hockney, 'No. 340', 21 May 2020, iPad painting.

The image is of a marbled green and slimy pond surface with a mass of lily pads (perhaps) at centre left.

Image source: https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news-events/latest-news/no-fear-of-the-new/

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jun 17

'Untitled' 1957 Mark Rothko www.nga.gov/artworks/674...

'Untitled'
1957
Mark Rothko

'This painting depicts large, rectangular shapes in shades of blue and green. In the center of the painting, two dark green rectangles are separated by a horizontal band of bright blue. Around the green rectangles is a wide border of darker blue. The brushstrokes in are visible in the various colors, creating slight differences in shade.'

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/67499-untitled

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jun 15

Retrowave meme background with text reading 'MEMECRIME'.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jun 11

What makes my writing fundamentally different from what an LLM does? My experiences. Every friend and lover I've ever had. Every meal I've eaten. Every animal I have patted. My rejections and disappointments and bits of luck and even, sometimes, things I have worked for and deserved. I don't care how many passages about the moon Claude has read, I can see the moon better. I am funnier and more annoying and more fucked-up. I win this match-up every time.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· May 26

The first one is the 'Loveless' cover.

The cover of 'Loveless', by My Bloody Valentine. It is a gorgeous fuchsia headache of blurs and suggestions.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· May 21

Like an Uno Reverse Card for scammers.

Image of an Uno Reverse Card, a red playing card with arrows pointing in opposite directions in the centre, and the same motif in the top left and bottom right corners.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· May 19

@olivertraldi
7:06 • 18 May 26 • 454K Views

To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey.

We male sex. We
complex. We

fake horse. We
off course. We

sail long. We
hear song. We

pig crew. We
home soon.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Apr 30

Rami Malek as US Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley in 'Nuremberg' (2025) holding up a Rorschach blot. The person being examined says what he sees: '[IN ENGLISH] A vagina.'

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Apr 8

People just be saying anything.

12:03

Sharif continues: "Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability."

"We earnestly hope, that the 'Islamabad Talks' succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days," he signs off.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Apr 6

Poster for the film 'Missile to the Moon' (1958), featuring a giant lunar spider clutching two scantily clad women.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Apr 4

Robert Webb's character gives a horse a birthday cake and demands the horse makes a speech in 'That Mitchell and Webb Look', S02E06.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Apr 1

Two new pieces up at @memezine.bsky.social. 🐅 🚀 www.memezinelit.com/spring-2026/... www.memezinelit.com/spring-2026/...

Erik Kennedy

Aphorisms on Forbes Rich List Day

The world’s billionaires now own a larger share of fear than ever before, according to data published today.

Like the hardman French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo I do all my own stunts. He fought a tiger in “Animal” (1977), and I told someone how I feel.

Some of the most human things I have done have been done where no one could see.

I wonder how many people accidentally go to work the day after they retire.

I refuse to let people quote my own embarrassing words back to me “for copyright reasons.”

It’s hard enough being self-destructive. Imagine finding the energy to be destructive to others!

My superpower is being more excited by the potential of things than I ultimately am by the final thing.

I told the fortune-teller, “If you can describe my life, I must live a very average life,” and then she described it perfectly.

Erik Kennedy

Newly Opened Venue

The man I overheard saying
that he needed to raise venture capital
to start a new relationship
was drinking red wine with ice in it

he said he’d met the right person
a hundred times
but they weren’t ready for him
he said love

is a space rocket
it has stages
and the cost of making one
is coming down

and as he did the FWRRGHRRMMFRMM sound
of the rocket
the music swelled
and utterly out-rocketed his rocket

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Mar 24

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS

Super Hans offering Mark a 'little bit of matter' in 'Peep Show' S06E01.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Mar 6

I have four (!) poems in the new 'PN Review'. I think it's fair to share this one and say buy the mag if you're in the UK. =) 'Attention-Starved Waif' is a very me poem, obvs. www.pnreview.co.uk/magazines/pn...

Attention-Starved Waif

I have always been needy, wailing for water and laughs
as far back as the days when I wore soft yellow
and only had two star-coloured teeth.

I read an article about turning need
into rugged self-sufficiency by drying it out overnight
in a low oven, switching it to convection just before bed.

No, my mistake, that’s how you make fruit leather.
The process I’m thinking of is longer
and involves self-denial and stern language and whips,

and it can’t really be done in the home, it has to be done
everywhere you are alive, all the time,
it takes place in the car and in court

and when you’re having blood taken, and for it to work
it will have to take over your sleep. In fact, it takes so long
that it’s not practical to recommend it

to anyone except the most patient self-improver,
and the thing about patience is that
it’s always a virtue that other people have.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Mar 3

An honour for me and a lovely thing for my book. So pleased that 'Sick Power Trip' is shortlisted in the Ockhams. Full of gratitude. 🩵 🩷 @thwupbooks.bsky.social www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Satupa‘itea, Faleālupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu) (Te Herenga Waka University Press)*

No Good by Sophie van Waardenberg (Auckland University Press)*

Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy (Te Herenga Waka University Press)

Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson (Auckland University Press)

* = first book

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Feb 20

My next album cover.

Picture of a man with his face very close to the face of a horse. Taken with a flash, so the subjects are brightly illuminated and the background is very dark.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jan 28

Melania Trump wearing an 'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' jacket.

Erik Kennedy@erikkennedy· Jan 23

I am sorry to report that it is not as exciting as all that.