the songs Beyoncé writes about that man are crazy it's like watching someone build the sistine chapel for a possum they found in a gas station parking lot
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trying to raise the dead by Dorianne Laux
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sorry I love this painfully mid media so much I could throw up
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“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic
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Letter to a Lost Friend, Barbara Hamby
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Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on, and I am both bolstered and burdened by your absolute faith in me” vibe, but it’s in circumstances that are like. so low stakes. Manager of a movie theater/the one usher who doesn’t smoke weed at work.
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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?
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“THE BODY was found
haloed by flies—& I looked beautiful
in their thousands of eyes.
Didn’t I?”
- Michael Wasson, A Soliloquy Would Imply That the Stage Is Empty.
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Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (1967)
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