i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea
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uptown, Minneapolis, Minnesota by Hieu Minh Nguyen
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probably it will be summer again by Catherine Pierce
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half-life in exile by Hala Alyan
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april morning by Jonathan Wells
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Vita Sackville-West, from Complete Works of Vita Sackville-West
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three stages of life:
1. there are monsters under my bed.
2. there are monsters in my head.
3. i am the monster now.
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rip to griffin and ramy. you would have loved this hostile takeover of babel
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wanting to talk to people is so fucking embarrassing. literally hi it's me again I wanted to have a conversation with you because I think you're fun to talk to. oh god you can just fucking kill me if you want sorry
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— Louise Glück, from “The Untrustworthy Speaker.”
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Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another
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It's world poetry day so here are some (more) of my favorite poems:
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin
All Trains Are Going Local by Timothy Liu
Rural Boys Watch the Apocalypse by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)
HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS. by Lev St. Valentine (@dogrotpdf)
Time of Love by Claribel Alegría
Every Job Has a First Day by Rebecca Gayle Howell
ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? by Devin Kelly
Reading by A.R. Ammons
things i want to ask you by Helga Floros
Night Bird by Danusha Laméris
Prayer for Werewolves by Stephanie Burt
The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorothea Grossman
The Yearner by Rachel Long
If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell
I Dream on a Crowded Subway Train with My Eyes Open But My Body Swaying by Chen Chen
We Have Not Long to Love by Tennessee Williams
Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme
Cracks by Dieu Dinh
and here's part one <3
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walking the dogs by Matthew Dickman
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