February 2012
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i love a-cappella music. →
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
– Gloria Steinem
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
– Ingrid Bergman (or Ralph Waldo Emerson, or Albert Schweitzer, depending who you believe. I say get it, girl).
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مامان
Each morning,
I find your cheekbones raised like sunrise
in fogged mirror. Hear
lilt of language downstairs,
note a glint of smile in windowpanes.
.
You know
I’ve always walked
with my heart in leaky pockets.
I lose change easily. Forget
that you are gone.
.
When you died, it was with a sigh,
a slight tearing, the
tremble of dissonant note
before slipping into melody.
I want to tell you
that...
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6 months to the day?
well, that’s just weird. and if i’m honest, it feels planned. i bet no one else even realized.
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“You were never taught to leave, but how to take it. So you belong to everyone...”
– Rachel McKibbens
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i mean, what if he had hit taylor swift instead of... →
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i've been following this story all day, and it... →
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Mississippi
Right now,
he is an alarm clock. He is
the ring beep clang shock sunrise
and I do not want to listen;
I’ve never been one for mornings.
But I
must learn the difference
between jealousy
and pain. For there is
no razor ribboning my intestines
as I hear that you have found love
drizzled like caramel on her mocha skin.
His eyes:
wide-set as the Mississippi;
palms like her sunken sand banks
to catch...
i am so, so sick.
i did not fall asleep at 5:30PM last night. this cannot be my birthday weekend. argh.
January 2012
73 posts
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the thing about dominoes is
you only really regret knocking them over when the last one falls.
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inspired by rachel mckibbens
You didn’t learn crack,
but to shatter. So now you cling to
the corners of window frames
like a moth
that will never touch the light
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inside. You, the negative space
of rummage sales, the toys
wrecked in some forgotten story, the emptiness
of a boy’s bedroom
that the new owner will never know.
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And so, like the moon, you leave
predictably. I am not
surprised at the sale of your space...
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“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not...”
– Louise Glück
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“That allowed the innocent one to grow up reckless: she was always stabbing...”
– Chase Twitchell, “The Innocent One”
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book vs. movie part 2
this installment of book vs. movie brought to you by: pay it forward.
warning! spoilers!
now let’s compare:
book:
- poorly written dialogue on an already somewhat fantastic, overidealistic concept
- apparently, all single gang-related shootings in the USA cease as a result of gang members “paying it forward” to others.
- kid meets the president of the united states to...
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WatchSO OBSESSED. with the packers out of the playoffs, it’s entirely possibly that i’m more excited for this than football tomorrow… wow.
“In other words, I’m sick and tired of taking people’s shit. Fuck off, stop...”
– WORD (&& i love you <3)
(via glowithbluesky)
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book vs. movie part 1
worth noting: the book is WAY better than the movie.
“Here’s the trick: forget about him and his good qualities. Even forget about his bad ones. Forget about all his excuses and what he promises. Ask yourself one question only: Is he making you happy?”
… and THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the way to find someone who loves you just as much as you love them.
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doing something that you didn’t know you knew how to do is an amazing feeling :)
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“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via 17glitches)
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limerence →
dear everyone clogging my facebook news feed with news of your breakup, heartbreak, despair, and so on,
amazingly enough, no one else cares. also, you’re crazy. we’re all crazy. it’s called limerence. hey! medicalization, it’s a real thing! we have psychiatric diagnoses for unrequited love now!
but i still don’t care that today would have been your 9-month if he...
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women of the world →
i have these split seconds of insanity where i forget how amazing kait is. honestly? this poem kills me. “the further you open your thighs/ the less value you have/ you are a rotting apple/ understand/ your consent is not worthless/ it is just not profitable.”
michaelleepoetry:
My sister Kait Rokowski is in this. Vote for her poem, “Christina Turner”!!!
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