regarding the röttgen pietà, elle emerson
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she let me hit because of my oblique intertextual references
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“You can say anything and I will not abandon you.”
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Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”
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Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
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October by Mary Oliver
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life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious
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Aria Aber, from Hard Damage; “How to pronounce John Frusciante correctly”
[Text ID: “But how ironic I must be / to have entered a language / wherein I mistake / I will leave you / for / I will love you”]
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Aria Aber, from Hard Damage; “Rilke and I”
[Text ID: “Whether you want it or not, in you sleeps a woman of war,”]
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Karina Borowicz, September Tomatoes
[text ID: The whiskey stink of rot has settled / in the garden, and a burst of fruit flies rises / when I touch the dying tomato plants. / Still, the claws of tiny yellow blossoms / flail in the air as I pull the vines up by the roots / and toss them in the compost. / It feels cruel. Something in me isn’t ready / to let go of summer so easily. To destroy / what I’ve carefully cultivated all these months. / Those pale flowers might still have time to fruit. / My great-grandmother sang with the girls of her village / as they pulled the flax. Songs so old / and so tied to the season that the very sound / seemed to turn the weather.]
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― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
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trista mateer, from “girl, isolated”
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nononono what will i do with ol Grizzler
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Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light, Richard Siken
[text ID: How much can you change / and get away with it, / before you turn into / something else, / before it’s some kind of / murder?]
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