hate the booktok tables at barnes and noble with a burning passion but it is sometimes funny to see a little life sitting right next to the love hypothesis like they have anything in common at all.
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all my students in my dystopian film class think gale is a better match for katniss than peeta and i told them they were Objectively Wrong and they assigned me a slideshow for homework to prove it and—
look. these children are about to be destroyed.
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someone needs to check up on the author of diary of a wimpy kid bc what if his publishing company is holding him hostage
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I think a lot about the early days of Adam and Gansey’s friendship… There are so many ways this exchange could go, please send me more captions.
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I understand why it didn’t make it into the adaptation, but I need you all to know that in North & South nearly the first thing Thornton does after meeting Margaret is use his influence to force her landlord to change the wallpaper in her house bc he overheard her saying she didn’t like it
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You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless
oh.......................................
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Alina Starkov was our age when she was martyred. She was just a girl, and she sacrificed herself to save Ravka and destroy the Shadow Fold. There are people in your country who worship her as a Saint too.
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@storyseekers event 13: florals
lonesome means a state of being apart. of being other. alone-some. adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome.
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when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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April 19, 2021: Heartbeats, Melvin Dixon
Heartbeats
Melvin Dixon
Work out. Ten laps.
Chin ups. Look good.
Steam room. Dress warm.
Call home. Fresh air.
Eat right. Rest well.
Sweetheart. Safe sex.
Sore throat. Long flu.
Hard nodes. Beware.
Test blood. Count cells.
Reds thin. Whites low.
Dress warm. Eat well.
Short breath. Fatigue.
Night sweats. Dry cough.
Loose stools. Weight loss.
Get mad. Fight back.
Call home. Rest well.
Don’t cry. Take charge.
No sex. Eat right.
Call home. Talk slow.
Chin up. No air.
Arms wide. Nodes hard.
Cough dry. Hold on.
Mouth wide. Drink this.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
No air. Breathe in.
Breathe in. No air.
Black out. White rooms.
Head hot. Feet cold.
No work. Eat right.
CAT scan. Chin up.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
No air. No air.
Thin blood. Sore lungs.
Mouth dry. Mind gone.
Six months? Three weeks?
Can’t eat. No air.
Today? Tonight?
It waits. For me.
Sweet heart. Don’t stop.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
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The poet, Melvin Dixon, died in 1992 of complications from AIDS.
Today in:
2020: Sunday Night, Raymond Carver
2019: Virginia Street, Jennifer Hayashida
2018: What Seems Like Joy, Kaveh Akbar
2017: Aunties, Kevin Young
2016: For the Union Dead, Robert Lowell
2015: The Cambridge Afternoon Was Gray, Alicia Ostriker
2014: Spirit of the Bat, Peggy Shumaker
2013: Thanks, W. S. Merwin
2012: Sweetness, Stephen Dunn
2011: I Remember, Anne Sexton
2010: Letter, Franz Wright
2009: 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven, Kenneth Patchen
2008: HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITY NO. 26, J.R. Quackenbush
2007: from Briggflatts, Basil Bunting
2006: The Chores, Frannie Lindsay
2005: Direct Address, Joan Larkin
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“I can best this.”
Please do not repost my art anywhere.
Both versions are now available for purchase on my INPRNT shop!
I Can Help You | I Can Best This
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