### Numb at the Lodge

Sam Kriss

It's got eyes of brown, watery; nails of pointed yellow

Numb at the Lodge

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#### Posts

- **[my plan was to flee the uk when reform win in 2029 so this andy burnham thing raises the small but horrifying possibility that i might have to stay here](https://substack.com/@samkriss/note/c-279033922 "Jun 19, 2026, 8:11 AM")**  
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- **[it’s joseph smith](https://substack.com/@samkriss/note/c-278312683 "Jun 18, 2026, 12:13 AM")**

- **[Lots to chew on (and argue about!) in this symposium in PloughStack’s special issue for the 250th: Who is America’s Homer?](https://substack.com/@santiagoramos/note/c-277565461 "Jun 16, 2026, 5:36 PM")**  
  — [Dana Gioia](https://substack.com/profile/82512746-dana-gioia) and [A.M. Juster](https://substack.com/profile/237936198-am-juster) say it’s Robert Frost  
  — Christian Wiman and Jane Clark Scharl say we don’t have one  
  — [Joseph Keegin](https://substack.com/profile/28797172-joseph-keegin) says it’s Whitman  
[plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer](https://www.plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer)

- **[my fellow britstacker Nigel Farage has made his debut on here with a ten thousand word essay on structural discrimination against white people. more immigrants failing to adapt to the local culture. if you’re going to come here we need your take on the serpent in the grove nigel, tell some sex stories but make it vaguely literary, let’s see some stacks of paperbacks, let’s see your opinions about people who get mfas, i wanna see some undirected fucking musings nigel, muse for me or get out of my face. but …](https://substack.com/@samkriss/note/c-276790781 "Jun 15, 2026, 12:36 PM")**  
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