May 2010
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April 2010
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04/30; Charles Bukowski - To The Whore Who Took My...
some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem, stay abstract, and there is some reason in this, but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep carbons and you have my paintings too, my best ones; its stifling: are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them? why didn’t you take my money? they usually do from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner. next...
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04/29; Kevin Young - Ode To The Midwest
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
—Bob Dylan
I want to be doused
in cheese
& fried. I want
to wander
the aisles, my heart's
supermarket stocked high
as cholesterol. I want to die
wearing a sweatsuit—
I want to live
forever in a Christmas sweater,
a teddy bear nursing
off the front. I want to write
a check in the express lane.
I want to scrape
my driveway clean
myself,...
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04/28; Gertrude Stein - Stanzas in Meditation
Part I
Stanza XIII
She may count three little daisies very well By multiplying to either six nine or fourteen Or she can be well mentioned as twelve Which they may like which they can like soon Or more than ever which they wish as a button Just as much as they arrange which they wish Or they can attire where they need as which say Can they call a hat or a hat a day Made merry because it is so.
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@samanthaaaaaaa
samanthaaaaaaa:
nervoushabits:
I really don’t think I make a good blonde. I was thinking of dying the majority of my hair red, as I haven’t really done that before…
You look fine as a blonde, durdur. Do red, because I did red and I looked awesome…Soooooo, if you do red you will look even more awesome! :D
I want to be red again, let’s all do it.
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04/27; Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ode To Beauty
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old; Or what was the service For which I was sold? When first my eyes saw thee, I found me thy thrall, By magical drawings, Sweet tyrant of all! I drank at thy fountain False waters of thirst; Thou intimate stranger, Thou latest and first! Thy dangerous glances Make...
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04/26; Billy Collins - Nightclub
You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. There seems to be no room for variation. I have never heard anyone sing I am so beautiful and you are a fool to be in love with me, even though this notion has surely crossed the minds of women and men alike. You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool is another one you don’t...
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04/24 T. S. Eliot - section 5 of East Coker
So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture ...
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The Steinways - Carrie Goldberg
Because I never...
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04/24; e.e. cummings - (16)
in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be ...
Right before I quit my job I bought a new pair of...
I haven’t worn them or taken them out of the box yet. I think today is the day.
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joseanything:
typewritersounds:
SMOKING POPES...
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04/23; Pablo Neruda - Tonight I Can Write...
Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me,...
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Attn: Eli.
You’re the best virtual little brother I’ve ever had!
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Hello, Social Anxiety!
I’m at the point where sometimes it scares me to send emails.
EMAILS! Electronic correspondence!!!!!!
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04/22; Suji Kwock Kim - Nocturne
1 If these are not the nights of empty hands, if these are not the nights of dreams galloping like gasoline fire over blue tar, I wish you could see what I see when I look at you, wish I could give you the country in my skull, invisible as the horizon I followed to your eyes— an ocean mounting within, the foam ad drove of bile-black waters washing us closer and farther apart, always both at once...
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Kind of Like Spitting - 1330 Oak 1995
Sad night.
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“I want all my friends to be librarians!”
– Tiff, on how awesome my classmates are.
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04/21; Paul Celan - Death Fugue
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night we drink it and drink it we dig a grave in the breezes there one lies unconfined A man lives in the house he plays with the serpents he writes he writes when dusk falls to Germany your golden hair Margarete he writes it ans steps out of doors and the stars are flashing he whistles...
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04/20; Mark Doty - Heaven for Paul
The flight attendant said: We have a mechanical problem with the plane, and we have contacted the FAA for advice, and then: We will be making an emergency landing in Detroit, and then: We will be landing at an air force base in Dayton, because there is a long runway there, and because there will be a lot of help on the ground. Her voice broke slightly on the word help, and she switched off...
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Sup vinyl nerds?
I want to recatalog all my vinyl. Right now, I have some of it up on recordnerd, but I don’t like their user interface and want to use something easier. I wish I could use access but I don’t have it on my computer, and I don’t want to use a boring old spreadsheet unless I HAVE to.
Are there any other good websites I should know about? How do you catalog your records? When I...
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04/19; Ezra Pound - E.P. Ode Pour L’Election De...
I For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime” In the old sense. Wrong from the start— No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus; trout for factitious bait; Idmen gar toi panth, hos eni troie Caught in the...
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