#Beautiful Short Loser

[louisegluck]

Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser.”

[Text ID: “Inside my head, the war is everywhere.”]

#ocean vuong #time is a mother #beautiful short loser #***

[metamorphesque]

  — Beautiful Short Loser, Ocean Vuong

[text ID: Nobody’s free without breaking open.]

#time is a mother #ocean vuong #beautiful short loser #poem #poetry #quotes #literature #freedom #dark academia #dark academia aesthetics #light academia #romantic academia

[lifeinpoetry]

Inside my head, the war is everywhere.

— Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother

#quote #Ocean Vuong #poetry #Time Is a Mother #out of my collection #Beautiful Short Loser

[losingmyselfinsleep]

Come to my heart dressed in white, with a bouquet of bloody roses and goblets of ashes,

Here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all

forgiven,

even though we didn't deserve it.

I’m done talking, officer, I’m dancing in the rain with a wedding dress & it makes sense.

But on a better subject: Do you know when you were most beautifully dressed in Vienna, absolutely, absurdly beautifully dressed? There can’t be any argument about it: on Sunday.

Pablo Neruda/ Richard Siken/ Ocean Vuong/ Franz Kafka

#ODE WITH A LAMENT #PABLO NERUDA #BEAUTIFUL SHORT LOSER #OCEAN VUONG #RICHARD SIKEN #FRANZ KAFKA #LETTERS TO MILENA #litany in which certain things are crossed out #excerpts #miscellaneous quotes #quotes #book quotes #poem #poetry

[gennsoup]

I'm on the cliff of myself & these aren't wings, they're futures.

Ocean Vuong, Beautiful Short Loser

#Ocean Vuong #Time is a Mother #Beautiful Short Loser #wings #futures #Vietnamese literature #poetry #poetry quotes #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes #books #words #text #LGBTQ literature #queer literature #queer poetry #BIPOC author

[ladyclaudia]

Just finished reading Time Is a Mother and when Ocean Vuong wrote “Inside my head, the war is everywhere. I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures.” and “The sky flashes. The sea yearns. I myself am hell.” and “I made it out by the skin of my griefs.”

#time is a mother #ocean vuong #The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica #Beautiful Short Loser #Not Even

[itsthesoulthatserotic]

Stand back, I’m a loser on a winning streak.

I got your wedding dress on backwards & playing air guitar on this dirt road.

I taste my mouth the most &, let me tell ya, what a blessing.

The most normal things about me are my shoulders. You’ve been warned.

Where I’m from it’s only midnight for a second

the trees look like grandfathers laughing in the rain.

For as long as I can remember I’ve had a preference for mediocre bodies,

including my own.

Tell me this, why is the past tense always longer?

Is the memory of a song the shadow of a sound or is that too much?

Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I imagine Van Gogh singing

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into his cut ear & feeling peace.

Green voices in the rain, green rain in the voices.

Oh no, the sadness is intensifying. How rude.

Hey, [knocks on skull], can you get me out of here?

That one time Jaxson passed out on his triple stack of jumbo pancakes

at Denny’s after top surgery.

I can’t believe I lost my boobs, he said a minute before, smiling through tears.

The sadness in him ends in me tonight.

It ends tonight!, I shouted to the cop who pulled us over for dreaming.

I’m not drunk, officer, I just believe in miracles.

Tomorrow, partly cloudy with a chance.

I’m done talking, sir, I’m saying what I feel.

I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures.

For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.

Now I’m a beautiful short loser dancing in the rain.

Inside my head the war is everywhere.

Do you think I’ll need a gun where we’re going?

Can you believe my uncle worked at the Colt factory for ten years

only to use a belt at the end?

Talk about discipline. Talk about good Lord.

Maybe he saw that a small thing moving through a large thing

is more like a bird in a cage than a word in the mouth.

It can’t be free without breaking open.

I’m not sad, he told me once, laughing, I’m just always here.

See officer? The world is a magic trick – everyone disappears.

Why aren’t you laughing?

No, not beauty – but you and I outliving it.

Somehow, I got me for days. Got this late light

in the yard leaving blood on the bone

-colored fence. This thrash of spring we drown in to stay awhile

& mean it. I mean it when I say I’m mostly

male. That I recall every follicle in the failure the way they’ll remember God

after religion: alone, impossible, & good.

I know. I know the room you’ve been crying in

is called America.

I’m sorry the door is not invented yet.

Wait awhile. Like death, we are most useful at the end.

Finally, after years of failure, I’m now a professional loser.

I’m unstoppable! I’m crushing it in losses! I’m mopping the floor

where Jaxson’s drain bags leaked on his way to bed.

I’m done talking, officer, I’m dancing

in the rain with a wedding dress & it makes sense.

Because my uncle decided to leave this world intact.

Because taking a piece of my friend away from him

made him more whole.

Because where I’m from the trees look like family

laughing in my head.

Because I am the last of my kind at the beginning of hope.

Because what I did with my one short beautiful life—was lose it

on a winning streak.

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Beautiful Short Loser by Ocean Voung

🤍

via @une-reveuse

#ocean voung #beautiful short loser

[ansu-gurleht]

"Because I am the last of my kind at the beginning of hope. Because what I did with my one short beautiful life--was lose it on a winning streak."

Ocean Vuong, “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time is a Mother

#ocean vuong #beautiful short loser #time is a mother

[thesewildreams]

Beautiful Short Loser, Ocean Vuong

#ocean vuong #beautiful short loser #poetry

[metamorphesque]

Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe by Vincent van Gogh, Beautiful Short Loser by Ocean Vuong

#parallels #art parallels #vincent van gogh #self portrait #ocean vuong #time is a mother #beautiful short loser #poem #poetry #quotes #literature #art #dark academia #romantic academia #light academia

[lifeinpoetry]

The sadness in him ends in me tonight.

— Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother

#quote #Ocean Vuong #poetry #Time Is a Mother #out of my collection #Beautiful Short Loser

[fromjannah]

TO BE AMERICAN IS TO BE A SCHOLAR OF OPPORTUNITY (OPPORTUNITY COSTS)

Ocean Vuong, "Beautiful Short Loser" in Granta, March 2022 / Kaveh Akbar, "The Palace" in Pilgrim Bell, April 2019 / Ocean Vuong, "Beautiful Short Loser" in Time is a Mother, April 2022

#jannah speaks #kaveh akbar #ocean vuong #web weaving #poetry #quotes #words #typography #absolutely haunting that the new beautiful short losers are but a month apart... #vuong must've submitted it before to granta but from here it's so. augh

[gennsoup]

Because taking a piece of my friend away from him made him more whole.

Ocean Vuong, Beautiful Short Loser

#Ocean Vuong #Beautiful Short Loser #Time is a Mother #self realization #healing #Trans Day of Visibility #poetry #poetry quotes #Vietnamese poetry #Vietnamese literature #American literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[madasrabbits]

okay? are you listening to me?

#from beautiful short loser ocean vuong btw

[nyaoha]

do not speak to me lest i be pretentious abt graffiti

#txt #its sooo..... #theres legitimately and obviously beautiful artworks done via graffiti ofc #but also just. admiring the practice it mustve taken to spray paint so cleanly #looking at whatever dumbass short phrase some loser decided to scrawl onto the wall and after laughing thinking about #the indirect human connection essential for experiencing that moment #like. somebody saw armpits as important enough to them to make it their tag. and thats fuckin ridiculous to me #but it makes me think about how? to someone else it might not be? or that someone else might just be identifying with the comedy of it? #idk smthn smthn we are all connected. like i said do not speak to me lest i get pretentious. #full ramgling in here