December 2011
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Jeanann Verlee - the Thorn
I imagine him without arms.
Unable to play guitar, comb his good hair.
No more basketball. No boxing.
No macaroni and cheese, no risotto.
Forget ice cream cones, catsup-dipped French fries.
He no longer hugs his mother, or high-fives his nephews.
Cannot masturbate. I imagine his arms
on the floor. The beautiful shoulder tattoo
ripped like a shred of cloth, the nail-bitten fingers
twitching like...
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“It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...”
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute
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“I don’t want to be the best lover you’ve ever had, I just want to be your...”
– Derrick Brown, Hot for Sorrow (via andrewbaggott)
kneehighsandlove:
Turn your lights down low -...
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DC Pierson: It’s fun to hear rapper’s early works,... →
dcpierson:
It’s fun to hear rapper’s early works, to hear them spout aliases for themselves that would go on to not really catch on and end up jettisoned by the second album.
Mine would sound like this:
“WHATUP, it’s DC, AKA Mr. Sad For No Reason Sometimes, AKA The Pope Of Straight Gettin’ A Plastic Spoon Out Of A Box Of Plastic Cutlery And Usin’ It To Eat Like One Scoop Of Peanut Butter To...
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“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via cultureofresistance)
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I Am So Not Sorry About My Vagina, And Other... →
snowstorminjuly:
verycunninglinguist:
lorenlovesdopamine:
cassket:
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m really, really sorry. I’m sorry I looked at you while you were watching TV. I’m sorry I lowered the window. I’m sorry it’s not organic. I’m sorry I got you so many Christmas presents. I’m sorry I cut my hair without asking you first. I’m sorry I applied to school. I’m sorry I wrote a book and...
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“Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via illegibleaddresses)
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“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via wandofhawthorn)
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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– C.G. Jung (via misswallflower)
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“Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of...”
– Johnny Griffin (via noldarling)
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“I want to be
in Texas, asleep
in the passenger seat of your
nineteen...”
– Warren Heiti, untitled
(via grammatolatry)
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“Backstage, we don’t kiss for an empty auditorium. We kiss
for strangers who...”
– Barefoot on the Pulpit by Lisa Fay Coutley (via grammatolatry)
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“because there are seven kinds of loneliness
the receptionist keeps a basket of...”
– Marty McConnell, the fidelity of disagreement (via grammatolatry)
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“Everywhere people are mad for miracles.
They search their coffee cups, dunk...”
– The Religion of Birds by Megan O’Reilly Green (via grammatolatry)
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“I have nothing holy to say.
I paint his face with ashes
from my cigarettes,...”
– Sara Tracey, And After This (via grammatolatry)
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“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think,...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002 (via grammatolatry)
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“Driving out of town, I see him crossing
the Brooks Pharmacy parking lot, and...”
– Marie Howe, Separation (via grammatolatry)
