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what studying languages is like

latin: words like 'yes' and 'no' aren't important. memorize these 3000 different ways to talk about killing people though because you will use them

greek: hello naughty students it's participle time

egyptian: ancient pictionary

french: pronouncing every letter is for chumps

german: let's combine every other word together to create the U L T I M A T E F R A N K E N W O R D

#classicsbitch #dying at hello naughty students it's participle time

ortegariekpoetry

Toxic Consumption is a chapbook of eight poems about inhabiting the same body as the force that seeks to destroy that body. The title is a combination of the word “toxic” and the phrase “destructive consumption.” Together, these words articulate a message of mutual destruction: both the destruction of the consumer and the destruction of the consumed. The collection explores a mentally ill individual’s coping mechanisms, the violation of the body and mind by internal and external forces, and the ways in which we seek to turn our struggles into stories. These poems are immediate, desperate, and rooted in the middle of an ongoing conflict. The final line of “A Love Letter to the Moth” summarizes this sentiment: “We are not in the aftermath. We do not have that luxury.”

[read Toxic Consumption online] [previous work by Sandro Ortega-Riek]

agamemnon: achilles we could really use you on the battlefield right now

achilles: how about agamem-no

agamemnon: achilles come on

achilles: you're not my agamem-mom

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thoodleoo

college au where instead of getting exiled, ovid gets sexiled, and the exile poetry is just a bunch of passive-aggressive notes he leaves all over his roomie’s side of the room

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ovid: now that augustus has died and tiberius is in power, maybe i'll get a chance to go home! surely everyone's seen that i've learned my lesson! in fact, i think i'll write a letter to rome right now

rome: new emperor who dis

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