muse

[weepingwidar]

Sliman Mansour (Palestinian, 1947) - Fire in the Field (2012)

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Transparency

The dominant global muncher of markets is addicted to war

Addicted to the stock market

“Sell more weapons!”

Becuase remember…

War is peace! 

*Americans Cheer*

We preach democracy and freedom

We practice ethnocide and murder

It’s disgusting - blatant 

& how lucky to have the NYT wrap & re-wrap to suit *The* narrative

Keep us strapped… literally. 

Keep the money flowing

Kill more people - for ‘justice’; ‘peace’

Can we collectively wake up?

And for fucks sake - 

Ceasefire. 

[izablogger]

[spinmeround]

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.

But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit

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One Night

It is rare: intimacy.

The kind that tears me open - gasping

Current coursing through my body 

Adjacent fear building dams

What if?

I daydream; wanting 

Could it be enough, what was?

I crave the feeling 

The deep, unspoken; sexy as hell 

Magic 

Breathe. Let it be enough.

[eating-my-hands-deactivated2024]

Kiki Smith, Come Away From Her (After Lewis Carroll), 2003

[izablogger]

Dating?

How does one get used to the feeling

A soft “no thanks”

A hard ghost 

How does one maintain 

The confidence

The humility 

The motivation 

The feeling rips

Healing begins

It then re-opens; unexpected

Leaving a scar

To remind you of the unavoidable;

Rejection 

[izablogger]

name that feeling

at long last; relief

finding yourself [smiling, eager, balanced, attuned]

with a tiny itch

is this to last?

[dongkelley]

mary oliver, “the moths” (excerpt) 

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https://open.spotify.com/track/165cwz4wGlGz0uDBhxdKLY?si=qEEUWXdNR422EuwGTn8kAw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8UwSZwpkPgFc

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Irrelevant

I heard some news that brought vibration through my body

An unsettled twinge of pain

"He's irrelevant", I say on repeat.

My body reacting, my mind repelling.

The advice from anyone and everyone swirling in patterns of 'should'

Per usual, I want to do it my way.

Is it possible to have care, without caring?

[shear-in-spuh-rey-shuhn-deactiv]

JOHN LA FARGE Water Lily Oil on Panel 9″ x 8.5″

[izablogger]

Woes

I’ve been less “in it”; emotional

My urge to write dwindling 

The pain less urgent, consuming 

A sense of gratitude 

And a fear; have I lost it?

[izablogger]

I tried to give myself advice “from a friend”

Impossible 

Can we really disassociate?

I tried to withhold as to “protect my heart”

But I am me

I tried to be angry because someone said I “should” be 

Is anger not just immaturity?

I'll continue with the question: what does it mean to honor oneself? 

[fillielitsa]

C.F.A Voysey

[beatricecenci]

Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006)

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