January 2010
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I listen to the rain fall hard and it doesn’t stop and I hope it means that the world is ending.
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“I felt his hard knee between my knees. My mouth hurts, my breasts hurt, because...”
– Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight (via nightmarebrunette)
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“What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make...”
– Sasha Grey (via linzo) (zombiegentleman) (via deadgirls) (via josepha-theodora)
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“Sometimes I like bleeding from sex. Probably because I like the drama of it, the...”
– Chunks of Ash (via nightmarebrunette)
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“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many...”
– Yoko Ono (via fuckyeahyokoono)
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“I never fall apart because I never fall together.”
– Andy Warhol (via thingsgohazy) (via fakepalindromes) (via youarebonbon)
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The Falling, Jane Hirshfield
You turn towards meteor showers in August, wishing yourself like that: bright and burning wholly out. When feeling finally comes it is that falling, matter breaking away from air, the sound of crickets moving through the grass like fire— and the strangely twisted metal in the field that a child finds: residue, crown. Then there’s the story of the Chinese sage, in anger and despair, who...
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“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far,...”
– Howard Zinn (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
See: Germany - Israel - Palestine
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“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely...”
– Howard Zinn (via fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via ihatethismess) (via letstalkequality) (via ekswitaj)
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“Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...”
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970 reprinted in Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
The spine of my copy of Voices is broken at this page (484), because this passage informs everything I do, everything I teach,...
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“The physical body connects the idea of passion with youthful sexuality, but that...”
– Alice Christensen
Some words I would like to lay down on as though they were a bed of nails and imprint them in my skin. So I never forget.
(via nightmarebrunette)
Me too
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"Genuflect"
corvidae:
always sounds like a dirty word to me.
Carpet burn
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Getting Ready, Jack Gilbert
What if the heart does not pale as the body wanes, but is like the sun that blazes hotter each day on these immense, perishing fields? What then? (Desire is not the problem. This far south, we are careful not to mistake seizures for love.) He sits there bewildered in a clamp of light. In the stillness, the sun grinds him clean.
(via poetry365)
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Sixto Rodriguez - Only Good For Conversation
My...
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We are writing a secret history of us on our skin. Sex, a kiss that becomes a bite, dancing all night, conversation, secrets, laughter, drunk, hands knitted together: these write invisible ink tattoos that remain after my bruises fade like patterns of crushed leaves on my skin. I worry when I’m with another man, I might think of you and my skin will shine, I won’t be able to hide it....
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They look like claw marks on the most girl part of me, like someone pawed at me and left a scar. Like maybe all the people who’ve held me have left a mark. Hold me here, they say from my hips, kiss me inside my thighs, touch me softly on the sides of my breasts. I’ve had my share of insecurities but never with these; i love them for sticking with me, reminding me how long they’ve been around; the...
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Summer #7
A ghost gum is whispering secrets to cicadas about ancient ceremony their chorus of timbals is singing death, death, death death layered upon death like nymphs shedding their skin. I am a cicada, digging through the dirt. I have a curse on my tongue that even the bush can’t answer.
I’m going to wash my heart in bleach, then my bones, white like ghost gum. Soon, Summer and fire will be...
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“So like, right now for example. The Haitians need to come to America. But some...”
– Cher (Clueless) (via jshdivision)
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“Only by being strange can we move, for strange acts cause us to be rejected by...”
– From “The Etched City” by K. J. Bishop.
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"Any fool can get into an ocean...", Jack Spicer
Any fool can get into an ocean But it takes a Goddess To get out of one. What’s true of oceans is true, of course, Of labyrinths and poems. When you start swimming Through riptide of rhythms and the metaphor’s seaweed You need to be a good swimmer or a born Goddess To get back out of them Look at the sea otters bobbing wildly Out in the middle of the poem They look so eager and...
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“And if they have a collection of Pablo Neruda poems - shoot to kill.”
– Stephen Colbert, talking about the threat of love to airport security (via smut-to-go)
See ‘Kiss goodbye’ man arrested over airport security scare
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Pluto to Persephone, Daniel Williams
I know what it is you want from me but you see I cannot give it I am hell and hell is a nice place to visit but when you want to leave you want to leave
when you speak to me you converse with darkness hold my hand old bones rattle when you kiss me imagine kissing the skull of a saint mouldering in a cave large balloon of spirit flown imagine taste of white bone reposed in...
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“Q: Pick five words that describe yourself.
A: Oh, The Seven Deadly Sins.”
– Leonard Cohen answering a query put forth to him in a 1994 Q Magazine article (via Sarah Belfort & goodcleanwholesomefun) (via Crashingly Beautiful)
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“So, we have Bonnie instead—a person who really does exist for all time, but...”
– Will Oldham explaining the moniker of Bonnie “Prince” Billy (via velveteendream) like? more like LOVE (via jshdivision)
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“I’m only leaving here toes up—I’m not going to any home for little old...”
– The art parties of Phyllis Diller : The New Yorker
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“As we pause to honor King’s legacy, it’s tempting to sanitize his radical call...”
– Honoring King: Economic Justice for All - John Gehring - God’s Politics Blog (via apatosaurus) (via breadandwhine) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via glitterbombing) (via ihatethismess) (via letstalkequality) (via ekswitaj)
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“Animation isn’t just for kids; it’s for adults who take drugs.”
– Paul McCartney (via oldfilmsflicker) (via yourfavoriteredhead) (via flickflickflicker) (via unicornology)