sweet grapefruit

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Listen Mr. Oxford Don

(John Agard) 

Me not no Oxford don me a simple immigrant from Clapham Common I didn't graduate I immigrate But listen Mr Oxford don I'm a man on de run and a man on de run is a dangerous one I ent have no gun I ent have no knife but mugging de Queen's English is the story of my life I don't need no axe to split/ up yu syntax I don't need no hammer to mash/ up yu grammar I warning you Mr. Oxford don I'm a wanted man and a wanted man is a dangerous one Dem accuse me of assault on de Oxford dictionary/ imagine a concise peaceful man like me/ dem want me to serve time for inciting rhyme to riot but I tekking it quiet down here in Clapham Common I'm not violent man Mr. Oxford don I only armed wit mih human breath but human breath is a dangerous weapon So mek dem send one big word after me I ent serving no jail sentence I slashing suffix in self-defence I bashing future wit present tense and if necessary I making de Queen's English accessory/ to my offence

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Cloud Appreciation Society Manifesto

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Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was forced into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity

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Wim Wenders. Paris, Texas, 1984. Cinematography: Robby Muller

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Dave Cicero. Marilyn Monroe Reading Leaves of Grass, 1951. 

John Florea. Marilyn Monroe Reading Leaves of Grass, 1952.

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David Hockney and Joni Mitchell holding hands (via NYT)

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Lew Thomas, THROWING-NIKOMAT [1973], 4 gelatin silver prints, mounted and framed; image courtesy of Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

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agitator in chief on Twitter

“#NoCopAcademy train takeover happening now to let people about the campaign to stop Rahm from building a $95 million police academy https://t.co/5QECsnl7IT”

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Ellen Sturgis Hooper. Hymn of A Spirit Shrouded

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Agnes Varda. Cleo 

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ZG magazine New York Issue no. 3

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leonard cohen

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This is just to say

(William Carlos Williams)

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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“We tend to associate intimacy with closeness and closeness with a certain sum of shared experiences. Yet in reality total strangers, who will never say a single word to each other, can share an intimacy — an intimacy contained in the exchange of a glance, a nod of the head, a smile, a shrug of a shoulder. A closeness that lasts for minutes or for the duration of a song that is being listened to together. An agreement about life. An agreement without clauses. A conclusion spontaneously shared between the untold stories gathered around the song.”

— John Berger, Some Notes on Song

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Callista Buchen, “Taking Care”