January 2011
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give...
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“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger (via loveyourchaos)
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Object Writing 22.01.11 - "Cryogenics"
The ad on the back of the magazine was selling body parts. The couple in the photograph looked sublime, Greek gods with perfect limbs and soulful eyes, and I almost cried from envy. I sent in the order form and in 2-3 weeks, my new heart came in the mail, cryogenically frozen. I tore open the packet with my teeth, half-expecting a packet of instructions to fall out or for a cloud of dust to...
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My soulmate is (probably) out there somewhere, but...
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“If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate,...”
– André Breton
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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make...”
– Voltaire (via 20julyplot)
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“Stretched out on the grass,
a boy and a girl.
Savoring their oranges,
giving...”
– ‘A Boy and a Girl’ by Octavio Paz (via yummyculture)
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“I tried to nap, but now my head was alive, was a toddler in a room full of new...”
– Dave Eggers (via loveyourchaos)
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Alone With Everybody
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there’s no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds ...
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“When you think of me
is my face electronically blurred?”
– Letter To The Woman Who Stopped Writing Me Back by Jeffrey McDaniel
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The Distant Moon
A quiet hospital is infinite,
The polished, ice-white floors, the darkened halls
That lead to almost anywhere, to death
Or ghostly, lighted Coke machines. I call
To him one night, at home, asleep. His breath,
I dreamed, had filled my lungs--his lips, my lips
Had touched. I felt as though I'd touched a shrine.
Not disrespectfully, but in some lapse
Of concentration. In a mirror shines
The...
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Brevity
there was this girl i once loved.
like a solid clash between air
and ion. then rain fell, and it was
clear to me that that was it.
and i will never love that girl again.
or maybe always. i cannot
discern the variance between
a lifetime and a second. today
i spent my time with the girl
i love. eating her mother’s cooking
and dancing on her sala.
a thousand tomorrows completes
every...
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sometimes, just sometimes in the middle of the night my soul aches from realizing all the lives I have lost.
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untitled vii
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and this is how archipelagos are formed—the angry wakening of volcanoes, rapid movement, cooling water and mass;
look, we have drifted apart, hardened by the sun, we set our bedrocks where we please, and too late, we notice that we have nothing left between us, but water—far and stretching, yawning and rippling. when we look at each other’s eyes, remember that once,...
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Fine is real.
Julia: I've got bad news for you, Andy, you're gonna be fine.
Andy: Fine is not great.
Julia: You've had enough of "Great." It isn't all it's cracked up to be. Fine is real.
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“I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your...”
– Charles Bukowski, Raw With Love (via thecynicsyndrome)
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The Day The Saucers Came
That Day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden, Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes, And the people of Earth stood and stared as they descended, Waiting, dry-mouthed, to find out what waited inside for us And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow But you didn’t notice because
That day, the day the saucers came, by some some coincidence, Was the day that the...
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Spaces
1. In this room I was born. And I knew I was in the wrong place: the world. I knew pain was to come. I knew it by the persistence of the blade that cut me out. I knew it as every baby born to the world knows it: I came here to die. 2. Somewhere a beautiful woman in a story I do not understand is crying. If I strain hard enough I will hear a song in the background. She is holding a letter. She is...
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The End
You must have felt it working in your bones. It’s begun: The papers print the same stories over and over, and have you checked the obituaries? Already, nobody remembers how their first kiss went. The phone keeps ringing and ringing when nobody’s home. Between our skins is a necessary friction that separates us forever. Look: space. Somewhere, a lost key. It’s begun: What was once the wind or an...
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“12. The earth accommodates 6,398,649,394 human beings on 148,380,000 square...”
– Autobiography by Arkaye Kierulf
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