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musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

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— Notebook Fragments, Ocean Vuong

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musings on pomegranates  

Pomegranates, Sin Hum (translated by Graeme Wilson), Rubik Kocharian

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Loser, Brian Karlsson

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Women in my family are raised to give. They rarely ever take

unless it’s pain.

My mother and my grandmother Are two of the strongest women I know. They’ve been through a lot, you wouldn’t believe a human being can survive all that…

They both have so much in common: strong, sensitive, talented, independent, unadulterated, generous, radiant, Stubborn, overpowering…

And.. they have very similar reactions when it comes to me:

The eldest child, the eldest granddaughter.

When i say I’m tired my mother reminds me: “but you’re strong”

And when I say I’m afraid it’ll be difficult my grandmother says: “No, not to you, it’s not”

It’s the way they were raised, the way i am…

And although for so long that managed to motivate me

now…

For someone who’s burning, what they say is carried away by the air along with the ashes they stand on, their ashes !

it took me so long to realize

THEY ARE BURNT…

And yet they stand,

like the thought of taking a break will break everyone around them.

Like their pain is nothing but the ash they collect to build their empires with.

Gluing it all by the pieces of themselves they sacrificed; cause they had to.

Life rarely gave them a choice

And here i am… on my way to the top, another version of the same woman.

My story has been prewritten I see it now.

How did i not see it before?

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•Quotes: Blythe Baird/James Baldwin/Marguerite Duras/ Fernando Pessoa/Anis Mojgani.

•Original context: Sinligh

•Art reference:

1.Soaking by Ron Hicks. 2. Painting by Joseph Lorusso. 3. Dream House by Lisa Lach-Nielsen. 4. Ricardo Fernandez Ortega

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Amor Vincit Omnia by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, detail, 1601–1602, oil on canvas 

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have you eroticized the repulsive today? have you applied an element of carnality to what is considered by most to be gruesome, grotesque, and/or monstrous today?

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— Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

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did some art for this poem i wrote a while back ^^

#poetry #female rage #feminine rage #girl interrupted syndrome #girlhood #my poem #my drawimg #man eater #traditional art #female hysteria #female manipulator #i don’t know how this app works but i wanna share my writing ^^

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persimmon 🧡

wallpaper set // prints