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Ada Limon

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@academia-lucifer

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@the-reverii

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I wrote this one today:

So I sit there in silence

And I ponder my thoughts

Storm clouds of violence

And a drought of what’s not

Bring me down from Heaven

Cause I’ve been led astray

The floodgates are open

My demons at bay

Whisper in my ear

Tell me what’s wrong

A judgmental silence

For lyrics too long

A galaxy of chaos

Swells up in my eyes

Rip apart the words

With a freeing demise

I’m holding on to holding on

Because what if it goes?

Lost in a void

Filled with highs and the lows

Mention it’s dimensions

As more than it is

Expansively diminished

Inside of a grid

Lo and behold

I’m thinking again

Waiting for my voice

But I speak with a pen

Where to go next

When it’s the pattern the same

Drown me in the shame game

I can take all the blame

Between what I am

And all that I’m not

The realization comes

That I’m stirring the pot

Thoughts to a boil

A brainstorm stew

Ideas I’ve had before

And ones I never knew

So where can I pour it

There’s mostly zombie ears

They taste the discomfort

They taste all the fears

But I pour them out

Because why do I care

I don’t fear being afraid

I fear being where

Where I understand the void

But they look right through

I want to show more than darkness

But they say that’s untrue

Where I whisper in my ear

About lyrics too long

Just trying to find out where

Where my words can belong

So I sit there in silence

And I ponder my thoughts

Hearing every small discretion

From storms that I’ve fought

Bring me back to Heaven

When my words are done

A state of mind so divine

If you know which way to run

Blood is to words

As life is to narrative

Finding meaning in either

Has always been imperative

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Ernest Hemingway, from "Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

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— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)

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Frank O'Hara

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

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i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.

Time Is A Mother, Ocean Vuong // The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky // The Cow, Ariana Reines // Ask Polly, Heather Havrilesky // October, Mary Oliver // Dead Stars, Ada Limón // Night Walk, Franz Wright// Xenotransplantation, Sam Sax // Angels In America, Tony Kushner // Take Me With You, Andrea Gibson

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