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A Love Poem

All I want is a nice table cloth, 

a picture of my parents

and the 44th President,

a piece of cake to celebrate my birthday, 

and your hand on my back 

as I blow out the candles.

(photo from https://dstnemuii.tumblr.com/)

#love poem lovepoem thankyou

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Things We Haven’t Talk About

1.

your fathers’ advice

your mothers’ smell

2.

your sisters

and how you felt

when you each

lost one

3.

the day

you packed your bag

for a one-way trip

4.

who you had imagined

the other one would be

(photo by Roderic Knight)

#immigrant stories #mama #papa

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Ways to Die on CSI

Heart attack

Brain aneurysm

Blood loss due to bit tongue from seizure

Frost bite

Bullet in brain

Bullet in eye

Bullet in chest

Bullet in nether regions

Knife to stomach

Knife to chest

Multiple knives to head, chest, and nether regions

Heartbreak 

Inability to talk about one’s feelings resulting in numbness of the soul resulting in self-induced death

Poison

Drowning

Drinking too much water after bout of severe dehydration

Knife to throat

(photo credit: Lorie Shaull)

#csi #murder #poetry

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you’re right

you’re right

you’re right

you’re right

you’re right

you’re right

you left

(illustration by Noah Harmon)

#poem #drawing #ok

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A takeaway

There’s only so much she can take

There’s only so much she can bake

There’s only so much cake

She’s only here for steak

She’s only a mistake

She’s lonely for a break

She’s lonely

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If you like short films about the life of an actor and the despair we all feel when pursuing “success”, please check out my short, DRIFTERS. 

Starring Sarah Goldberg, Peter Grosz, Jim Santangeli

Awards

Special Jury Award: Narrative Short // New Orleans Film Festival

Best Experimental Short // Aesthetica Short Film Festival

#short film #actors #acting #pursuit of happiness

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“I am glad you are having good  time see as many movies as you can and call me when you reach N. Y love you I miss you  now I regret I should have gone with you any way next time”

-my mother to me, two days ago 

(sent from her iPhone)

#poetry #letter from my mother #coming to america #two days ago

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How Sad To Think: 

your eyes staring into mine

will soon be 

just a memory

(Photo by Zoe Strauss)

#zoe strauss #photography #poetry #billboard #memory #love

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I would hate

To wake up 

And realize 

That forty years

Have passed, 

And all 

I can

Say is, 

"Oh

Look

How fast

Time 

Flies" 

(Photo from "In Almost Every Picture" by Erik Kessels) 

#photography #poetry #death #erik kessels #bad photo #youth

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Selling cash crop

to buy the new dress

that will take me away from this small town

(Photo by Colin Gray)

#colin gray #photography #poetry #new orleans #cleaners

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She took off her sweater,

her blouse,

the cloth underneath her clothing,

scattered them down the street

where they floated in puddles

like discarded ash

from her cremated body.

(Photo by Joe Leavenworth) 

#joe leavenworth #photos #poetry #sweaters #scattered #memory #fall #anu valia

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all that’s pretty

will not follow

you

into the hole in the ground,

but it will help

the flowers 

grow

from the roots on up.

(Photo by Nancy Newberry)

#poetry #poem #nancy newberry #photos #death

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This is the last stop. This train don't go no more.

Church Avenue

#train #mystery #quotes #g train #church #subway

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Last Page First

In the end, they die.

But you already knew that. 

I'm sure it doesn't ruin the story. 

For in the end, you die, too. 

(Photo by Hanna Antonsson) 

#story #warning #spoiler alert #poem #poetry #america #young #old #death #life

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Blacked out faces in faraway places;

as days turn to years, the memory disappears

(Photo by Patrick Joust)

#poetry #patrick joust #photography #poem #balloon #memory #children #childhood #nostalgia

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"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

#robin williams #rest #thank you #quote #laura ingalls wilder #laughter

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I’m so excited that kids growing up now can cite this video as being part of their formative years

#sia #chandelier #music videos #mtv #vma #girl #dancing #cool #beautiful #dance