January 2010
55 posts
On fate #2.
Some day
in the future
we will drink coffee
we harvested ourselves
dirt under our fingernails
well earned blood in the bathroom sink
I will put a bowl of fruit on the kitchen table
You will make art with orange peels on my stomach
chairs will be too expensive for us
we will sit on the floor
and make love where we eat breakfast
We will make love for breakfast
You will hang me a...
On fate #1.
You are all over my mouth
You are in my mailbox at five in the morning
right after the snow falls
You are two minutes late to the bus stop
The first thing you hear
when you enter my house is
my laughter in the other room
Did you fall in love with me
because you dropped your cell phone
and the bus went rolling by
only to open my front door later
at the exact moment
when I wanted to let...
“I don’t know about you, but i practice a disorganized religion. I belong...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (thanks TJ)
“We [women] don’t talk about our bodies nearly enough and our bodies carry the...”
– Carmen Mojica, Intangible and one of my loves (via waterwrittenasrain)
Poet Meeting #1
Mary: Sorry for invading your personal space.
Zach: I don't have much personal space.
IN A STATION OF THE METRO:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd ;Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound
This was written for the women
who feel free inside ourselves
And to those of us who yet do not
Stop censoring your open mouths with lipstick.
you orchard pickers with your aprons tightly wound around your breasts
stop being afraid of each other
You are better than that.
lift your fists like beacons because women
have supplied the ranks of Sparta and
tethered the sails of the Mayflower
...
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once...”
– Paul Hawken (via thegardenofe.blogspot.com) (via raptorinside) (via kneepits)
On informing TJ of his rent for being homeless in...
TJ: even if i dont crash at your house... isnt that my job anway? supplying all the cute underage women in my life with booze?
Kristen: har har har
TJ: i kinda count august in there, cuz he has such long purty hair
This was written for the women
who feel free inside ourselves
And to those of us who yet do not
to those of us who pluck suctioned wineglasses
from breast circumference
to measure the worth of one’s weight
like a flesh colored marketplace
To those of us with the unfilled glass half moon waning crescents
and to those of us who spill over
like milk at a loud and beautiful dinner table
meadow full of female
to...
An apology.
grassbladelips:
In your bedroom above the kitchen,
you fingered strings on your cello—
you weren’t allowed to lie to me there.
I was freezing, wrapped in your yellow quilt,
at the end of your bed.
Your room was always so cold.
Your fingers played soft and barely audible, “I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry,
but she was warm.”
“Do you ever surprise yourself and be like: yeah, I’m cool…?”
– Joy
“Gay guys are really fun. Lesbians just have mullets.”
– Joy
On getting up to go to Starbucks.
Joy: Let's go.
Kristen: I know but I have a big zit on my nose.
Joy: I know and I have one right below my nose.
Kristen: Yeah.
Joy: We can be the one zit wonders.
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)
“I like watching him when he’s thinking, when he’s talking with people, I like...”
– Vanessa Paradis on Johnny Depp (via herekitty)
“My dad and Bobbi Jo aren’t giving me my Wegman’s gift card until...”
– Joy
Official Rider For Omni's SUCO Feature 1/27:
treesfromwhichtohangfrom:
- Weed - One dozen Vanilla Dutchmasters - Monographed Toilet Paper With Bamboo MC’s Face On it - A Raised Platform On Which To Carry Me To The Stage - One 750 ML Bottle Of Captain Morgan’s Chilled And Wrapped In Baby Seal Fur - One Two Liter Bottle of Coca Cola (No Pepsi) - Ice, Cut in the shape of small “O”s - A pewter goblet - A Polar Bear Skin Comforter - Bitches
...
A: What have they come for?
B: They've all come to look for America.
