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Dust, by Dorianne Laux
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Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks. Now, I remember only the flavor — not like food, sweet or sharp. More like a fine powder, like dust. And I wasn’t elated or frightened, but simply rapt, aware....
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Arts & Sciences, by Philip Appleman
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“Everyone carries around in the back of his mind the wreck of a thing he calls his education.” —Stephen Leacock
SOLID GEOMETRY Here’s a nice thought we can save: The luckiest thing about sex Is: you happen to be so concave In the very same place I’m convex. PHILOSOPHY: THOMAS HOBBES Better at thinking than loving, He deserved his wife’s retort: On their wedding night, she told him,...
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What She Was Wearing, by Denver Butson
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this is my suicide dress she told him I only wear it on days when I’m afraid I might kill myself if I don’t wear it you’ve been wearing it every day since we met he said and these are my arson gloves so you don’t set fire to something? he asked exactly and this is my terrorism lipstick my assault and battery eyeliner my armed robbery boots I’d like to undress you he said but would that...
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Death comes to me again, a girl
in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling.
It’s not...
– Dorriane Laux (via vernish)
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So, if you put your URL in here, you can listen to... →
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Sneak peek at the first on-air trailer for Legend of Korra!
2/24/2012
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
AHH!!!! YESSS
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Ann has a picture of Leslie at Harvest Fest on her...
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There’s something just so glorious about Fridays.
Mostly because they’re Fridays. But also because I just get to reblog all of the Parks and Recreations photosets and basically rewatch the entire episode in 5 second intervals. It’s a nice way to procrastinate.
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mother-fucking-science asked: in the situation of the love sonnet to a counseling center, I approve of poetry. But only in this situation
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whizzingham—manor:
I want to write a love sonnet for my school’s counseling center.
They get everything right! My counselor understands everything that comes out of my mouth. I want to dance in their waiting room and give them a parade.
I would co-author this sonnet. Just sayin’.
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Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences Sing a Lullabye"
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Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an...
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