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Perhaps, for your mellow whys?

[valtsv]

i love being both severely mentally unwell and hideously self aware it's like a free completely useless bonus feature that enhances the experience in all the worst and most mortifying ways possible

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— Tina Chang, from “Color.”

[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, “Against Nostalgia”, The Hurting Kind

[kafk-a]

Sally Wen Mao, from The Kenyon Review (Mar/Apr 2020)

[misterbadger]

Alice Neel, Frank O'Hara, 1960, oil on canvas, 34 x 16 1/8 in.

Why I Am Not a Painter, by Frank O'Hara

I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for instance, Mike Goldberg is starting a painting. I drop in. “Sit down and have a drink” he says. I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” “Yes, it needed something there.” “Oh.” I go and the days go by and I drop in again. The painting is going on, and I go, and the days go by. I drop in. The painting is finished. “Where’s SARDINES?” All that’s left is just letters, “It was too much,” Mike says.

But me? One day I am thinking of a color: orange. I write a line about orange. Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines. Then another page. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. Days go by. It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven’t mentioned orange yet. It’s twelve poems, I call it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery I see Mike’s painting, called SARDINES.

[hoonclub]

SUNGHOON — ‘BLACK SWAN’ ending fairy (221224)

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— Leigh Bardugo, from “Six of Crows.”

[accio-prongs]

[amntenofre]

lovely cat sleeping in the Sanctuary of the Goddess Isis at Philae (now on the Agilkia island)

[bakwaaas]

I love tumblr bc i can be so pathetic and annoying on here and it’s fine

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word", Postcolonial Love Poem

[weltenwellen]

Charif Shanahan, from "Fig Tree"

[inhypen-deactivated20230401]

enhypen  —  red  carpet  @  kbs  gayo  daechukje

[mango-season]

Wendy Cope / Ada Limón / Tomás Q. Morín / Queer Eye / Ada Limón

[wellwaterhysteria]

a very quick poem i just wrote, made from excerpts of texts my mum has sent me this year.

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

And how do you run away from what never goes away??

[lelif]

the miracle of being here

invitation, mary oliver// @arthoesunshine // when death comes, mary oliver//to be alive, gregory ott// the dead poets society(1989), quote: walden, henry david thoreau// joseph campbell// the aeneid, virgil// @babyangel-jpg // @rawjoy //sweet, charles bukowski// that it will never come again, emily dickinson// bjenny montero// ? // ? // moments, mary oliver// madness a bipolar life, marya hornbacher// wild geese, mary oliver// letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke// on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean voung// @ashstfu // i thought on his desire for three days, linda gregg