April 2011
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Excerpt from "The Eel's Fear" by Lia Purpura
You have beautiful words for that:
undulating, grace, and bearing.
You give them to your women.
And the words for things
you give to men,
machete and scythe,
I am those too. I don’t know which
I like more— a way of being seen,
or being.
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Excerpt from "Fuck" by Kim Addonizio
The word is divided
into those whose opinions matter
and those who will never have
a clue, and if you knew
which one you were I could talk
to you, and tell you that sometimes
there’s only one word that means
what you need it to mean, the way
there’s only one person
when you first fall in love,
or one infant’s cry that call forth
the burning milk, one name
that you...
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Excerpt from "Us" by Anne Sexton
Oh then
I stood up in my golden skin
and I beat down the psalms
and I beat down the clothes
and you undid the bridle
and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions
the New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat,
acre after acre of gold,
and we harvested,
we harvested.
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Excerpt from "Great Leap Forward" by David Sedaris
“Then she what?” Richie and I would scream.
“Fucked her ex-boyfriend on this sofa I’d bought for our anniversary.”
“On the what?”
“The sofa I’m sitting on. She fucked her ex-boyfriend on this sofa.”
“How many times?” we’d ask.
“Huh?”
“I said, ‘how many times?’”
“Just once...
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joseph by Lucille Clifton
something about this boy
has spelled my tongue
so even when my fingers tremble
on mary
my mouth cries only
Jesus Jesus Jesus
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joss whedon, marry me please, please, please
Reporter: So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Joss Whedon: Because you're still asking me that question.
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“Clearly put, I was not born to be one more pretty poppy in that garden.”
– Excerpt from Lucy Anderton’s “Eve’s Sestina for Adam”
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Watchmodern girls always get their way (i was wrong), modern men dream of what they can’t say (that’s all right)
the strokes ft. regina spektor, “modern girls and old fashioned men”
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“I love passion, passionately.”
– Charles Baudelaire (via bohemienwriter)
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“Sex is used so often every day in the media. I mean, we use it to sell sneakers....”
– Sasha Grey
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Excerpt from "Shame on Me" by Steve Almond
The next day, we hold hands on the bus the whole way and talk about how this isn’t just a summer thing, It is something much deeper. We are soulmates. We have licked one another’s souls. We are soulmate lickers.
Natalie is getting off in San Francisco, so we have our final farewell. All around us, other campers are singing about West Virginia, mountain mama, and Natalie is sitting on...
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Excerpt from "Six Apologies, Lord" by Olena...
Accountable, Lord. I Am
Accountable. Lord.
Lord It Over Me,
Lord It Over Me, Lord. Feed Me
Hope, Lord. Feed Me,
Hope, Lord, Or Break My Teeth.
Break My Teeth, Sir.
In This My Mouth.
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“What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.”
– Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (via emotionsleaking)
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Excerpt from "Conversation with Slugs and Sarah"...
Up late watching slug porn, you confess
you had a boyfriend who could spin you like that, slug grace and slug ballet—we don’t
touch the topic of slime—and those eyes dangling from tentacle tips must be a
kind of love or lust, sighting farther and nearer all at once. (But are those eyes?)
Slug sublimity suggests love’s a drag, touch that lingers and leaves a wet trail of
memory and What did...
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Excerpt from "A Primer for the Small Weird Loves"...
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So you say you want a deathbed scene, the knowledge that comes before knowledge,
and you want it dirty.
And no one can out figure out what you want,
and you won’t tell them
and you realize the one person in the world who loves you
isn’t the one you thought it would be,
and you don’t trust him to love you in a way
you would enjoy.
And the boy who loves you the wrong way...
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