February 2012
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This Is Just To Say
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I wish I did not have to censor what I think of you,
but I do.
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“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are...”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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Wikipedia -- The Language of Flowers →
asparagus & moonflower & plumeria for you, I guess
(while everyone quietly lives in fear of the striped carnation)
“Can you please come shovel some snow? We got hit with another 4 inches last...”
– email from loving father, 3,500 miles away
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Kimbra — Two Weeks Head Over Heels
and...
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Fol Chen — Cable TV
more love songs should...
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WatchGorgeous Bully — (I’ll Come Home) Grass Has Grown
This song is promising spring, so of course as I listen to it at the breakfast table I look up and see the first robin of “spring” or whatever warm pause we’ve been in here in DC for months.
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Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences Sing a Lullabye"
sharingpoetry:
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an...
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I was not expecting the perfume sampler I tried on this morning to smell like you.
Kindly tell my professor that Calvin Klein and I had to go home and take a shower
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"VERY SEXY is About to Get Sexier..."
Victoria’s Secret, you need to find someone else to write your emails.
Best,
Fiona
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The Assassination of Jesse James
shitmystudentswrite:
Shortly after delivering his I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King was assassinated by Jesse James.
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“I wrote your name on all
my folders & drew your
silhouette like...”
– —NATE SLAWSON, from MIRANDA, OR AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF THE TENTH GRADE
you are an arrow you are a radio once upon a time you were a girl with wings
me, I’m a meadowlark, I guess, I used up all of my good metaphors with you, this is what tenth grade love does to me, you eat me up
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I have found that your secret blog is impossible to find and
I just want to make sure you know kissing you in that photo booth well it was an accident
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GOOD GRIEF →
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“I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full...”
– —Richard Feynman to his dead wife (full letter here)
a) “I don’t know your new address”
b) “they all seem ashes”
c) AND THEN HE LIVED FORTY THREE MORE YEARS
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“I don’t understand this business of linguistics.
Make me cry.
Don’t make me...”
– —Anne Carson
The Truth About Tears, or, YUP
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This Is Just To Say
In Britney Spears’ “Hit Me One More Time,” she says: “my loneliness is killing me.”
In “Stronger” she says: “my loneliness ain’t killing me no more.”
Right?
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WatchBlind Pilot — Half Moon (Yours Truly session)
xeno
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
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SAD SINGERS / THEY JUST PLAY TRAGIC →
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“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah...”
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“affection times purity times intensity times duration” yeah oooook
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Things NoViolet Bulawayo Said In Class Today
some stories insist on being told
a good story is more intelligent than its author
you don’t have to answer to anyone when writing fiction
BUT. when writing non-fiction you have to write with dignity
(and then she read from her story that won the 2011 Caine prize and I wondered why I wasn’t spending every second of my life writing because I guess I could be if I wanted to, and I...
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Do not make a list of things you love more than love.
Things I Love More Than Love
everything
whale shaped piñatas
leopard print
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Florence + the Machine vs. Drake — Over x 2
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Sad Singers / They Just Play Tragic
Catherine: what is it about the human condition that grants us artistic genius when we are emotionally at our lowest?
Me: lol idk happy ppl r not good at songs
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