May 2013
86 posts
“God I want you
in some primal, wild way
animals want each other.
Untamed and...”
– Want, Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
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“I would love to say
that you
make me
weak in the knees
but
to be quite...”
– Derrick Brown, Love Language (via weatherbeatensoul)
“I want to bend in a thousand directions, like the sun does, like love does, like...”
– Andrea Gibson (via ohandreagibson)
“They lay beside each other in bed. She is sleeping. He is awake. She always...”
– Dalton Day, “The Cartographer” (via pigmenting)
“i love lipstick. i want to write an essay about the politics of lipstick. i like...”
– nomad manifesto (via theseasonofthebitch)
“Just because you’ve met one avant-garde poet doesn’t mean you’re a good writer....”
– The New Dorms (via overheardatslc)
“Eating my own weight in microwave pizza.
Not getting kissed.
Forgetting...”
– Cristin O’keefe Aptowicz, “How I Spent My Summer Vacations.” (via elvis-shrugged)
From her book Oh Terrible Youth (Write Bloody Publishing, 2011)
Rules my Grandma's Psychiatrist gave her in 56'
Get some cheap dishes and break them when you get upset.
Learn how to say “NO” and don’t feel guilty about it
Buy something frivolous for yourself once in awhile, like a new hat.
Never again do anything you don’t want to do.
We Eat an Apple In My Bed
mileswalser:
We’ve been kissing for months. Three times a week our toothbrushes share a chipped porcelain mug in my bathroom. As my lips reach for the juice falling from her laugh, her mom calls. I listen as she talks about Biology, her new job, asks about her sister. Her eyes drop as she whispers, No, I still don’t have a boyfriend.
On cue, I stop chewing. She looks at me, waiting for my face...
“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
– Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, “An Origin Story” (via loveyourchaos)
“What I have loved so far, I have loved in order to be able to love you.”
– Paul Celan, from a letter to his wife Gisèle, 1952 (via proustitute)
“so don’t tell me how love will save me,
I was carnivorous about love, I ate...”
– Dionne Brand, Ossuaries (via the-unfeminine-female)
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