April 2011
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04/30; David Lehman - A Quick One Before I Go
There comes a time in every man’s life when he thinks: I have never had a single original thought in my life including this one & therefore I shall eliminate all ideas from my poems which shall consist of cats, rice, rain baseball cards, fire escapes, hanging plants red brick houses where I shall give up booze and organized religion even if it means despair is a logical...
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04/29; Ezra Pound - A Pact
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman— I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child Who has had a pig-headed father; I am old enough now to make friends. It was you that broke the new wood Now is a time for carving. We have one sap and one root— Let there be commerce between us.
Apr 29th
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Listenfacingandbacking: Night Birds-Thrilling Murder
Apr 29th
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Why are some people total jerks all the time?
Seriously, today has been full of totally stupid news. I need to get away from NJ permanently. 
Apr 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →
Snowing (26) Night Birds (5) Lifter Puller (4) The Hextalls (4) New Bruises (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 28th
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04/28; T.S. Eliot - Preludes
I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of...
Apr 28th
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Anonymous asked: Hey, where do you live?
Apr 28th
maybeimthenewmessiah asked: O, L and H
Apr 28th
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Listenmelissajawn: The Ergs!- Introducing Morrissey ...
Apr 28th
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drop a letter (or letters) in my ask.
T - For a Turn On F - For a Fear O - For an Obsession L - Something I love H - Something I hate P - For a phobia C - Something I’m craving BORED
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04/27; Mark Strand - Courtship
There is a girl you like so you tell her your penis is big, but that you cannot get yourself to use it. Its demands are ridiculous, you say, even self-defeating, but to be honored, somehow, briefly, inconspicuously in the dark. When she closes her eyes in horror, you take it all back. You tell her you’re almost a girl yourself and can understand why she is shocked. When she is...
Apr 27th
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I speak without thinking way more than I should.
I always back myself up into these terrible corners I can’t get out of and I feel like a total jerk. I’m sorry. I’ve totally lost all concentration on my finals and I hate this.
Apr 27th
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brokenshiftkey asked: ahh i have another drew question. do you have any studying abroad experience? :)
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Listenorgcoreoke: Think Big had a day off from their...
Apr 26th
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04/26; Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Vast Confusion
Long long I lay in the sands Sounds of trains in the surf in subways of the sea And an even greater undersound of a vast confusion in the universe a rumbling and a roaring as of some enormous creature turning under sea and earth a billion sotto voices murmuring a vast muttering a swelling stuttering in ocean’s speakers world’s voice-box heard with ear to sand a shocked...
Apr 26th
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I wish the lifter puller universe was real
&that I lived in it
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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I am going to be ridiculously stressed out until...
The next few days are going to suck and then the NJLA conference is going to be awesome but until the 10th, I’m probably going to be on the verge of panic nonstop.  Ahhhhhhhhh. See you later, Tumblr.
Apr 25th
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04/25; Billy Collins - No Time
In a rush this weekday morning, I tap the horn as I speed past the cemetery where my parents are buried side by side beneath a slab of smooth granite. Then, all day, I think of him rising up to give me that look of knowing disapproval while my mother calmly tells him to lie back down.
Apr 25th
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Hey, insomnia!
I don’t want to be friends with you anymore. Can we break up? It’s just not working out…
Apr 25th
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Listenthehumanfacedivine: Snowing - Methuselah Rookie...
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On the destruction of Meat Town USA:
Show houses come and go, it’s true.  I remember all the nights I spent at the Parlor learning about what this scene had to offer. I was at the Bread Box’s last show. But Meat Town was different. I hated it the first time I went there. I hated the creepy staircase and felt super trapped. Over the years and all the shows I went to there, it became a part of what life was. I’ve...
Apr 25th
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04/24; Rainer Maria Rilke - Before Summer Rain...
Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don’t know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total silence. From the nearby wood you hear the urgent whistling of a plover, reminding you of someone’s Saint Jerome: so much solitude and passion come from that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour will grant. The walls, with their...
Apr 25th
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Listenmatt-t: The Hold Steady - How a Resurrection...
Apr 24th