April 2013
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March 2013
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mimeomia
n. the frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a stereotype, even if you never intended to, even if it’s unfair, even if everyone else feels the same way—each of us trick-or-treating for money and respect and attention, wearing a safe and predictable costume because we’re tired of answering the question, “What are you supposed to be?”
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“It sucks when someone you have feelings for doesn’t share those feelings; it...”
– delacroix
February 2013
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January 2013
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“Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with...”
– Lola Montez
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"The Existence of the World Is a Controversy" by...
After the photograph, the class wandered off and I wondered why so often I found myself the last man. Because I’d read Emerson all summer long, I took my lack of discomfort to be a sign of heroic standing.
So I determined to set for myself a new relation to the universe, to write poems. As if one could settle, once and for all, the question whether or not vocation is all.
Solitude...
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I don’t understand your persistent desire to be as banal as possible.
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December 2012
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"Snowflakes" by Jennifer Grotz
Yesterday they were denticulate as dandelion greens, they locked together in spokes and fell so weightlessly
I thought of best friends holding hands. And then of mating hawks that soar into the air to link their claws and somersault down, separating just before they touch the ground.
Sometimes the snowflakes glitter, it’s more like tinkling than snow, it never strikes, and I want to be...
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“I’m not going to put on anymore puppet shows.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via xo-skeleton)
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"Medusa in San Francisco" by William Winfield...
Ok, I was a little nervous in the airport, but I looked at her right in her eyes, and sure she had her hair up sometimes, but why would that make any difference? What I am saying is that a thousand times I smiled into her sweet face, at the restaurant where the owner also took her hands, in the sleepy park, at pizza—she even drank some of my soda—in the bath where I made love to her...
November 2012
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“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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