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“i love everybody because i love you

when you stood up, walked away barefoot

and the grass where you lay left a bed in your shape

i looked over it and i ached

i love everybody because i love you

i don’t need the city, and i dont need proof

all i need, darling is a life in your shape

i picture it, soft, and i ache

look at you, strawberry blond

reach out the car window trying to hold the wind

you tell me you love her, i give you a grin

oh, all i ever wanted was a life in your shape

so i follow the white lines, follow the white lines

keep my eyes on the road as i ache

look at you strawberry blond

fields rolling on

i love it when you call my name

can you hear the bumblebees swarm?

watching your arm

i love it when you look my way”

from strawberry blond by mitski

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“what is that quiet of snow in the night?

the dark rings with white noise

as you stand and drown

maybe it’s all of these snowflakes

screaming

a choir of mute

as they brace for the ground”

from square by mitski

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“but you take and you take

like silks up my sleeve

tied corner to corner, never ending

trick after trick, i make the magic

and you unrelentingly ask for the secret”

from salt in the wound by boygenius

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“my telephone, it doesn’t have a camera

if it did i’d take a picture of myself

if it did i’d take a picture of the water

and the man on the offramp

holding up the sign that’s asking me for help

i got a job and i’ll work here for the summer

i fold the towels and set them by the pool

everyone looks happy with each other

til they step away and say the thing they really meant

they always sound so cruel

i didnt know what i was in for

when i signed up for that run

there’s no way i’m curing cancer

but i’ll sweat it out

i feel so proud now for all the good i’ve done

i know a girl who owns a boutique in the city

selling clothes to the fashionably late

she says she cries at the news but doesn’t really

cause it’s too much fun, there’s too much time

and too much plastic money to be made

i didn’t know what i was in for

when they took my belt and strings

they told me i’d gone crazy

my arms are strapped in a straight jacket

so i couldn’t save those tv refugees

when they’re on their backs

in a bloody bath

full of sarin gas

on a screen

i didn’t know what i was in for

when i laid out in the sun

we get burned for being honest

i’ve never really done anything, for anyone

to fall asleep i need white noise to distract me

otherwise i have to listen to me think

otherwise i pace around, hold my breath, let it out

sit on the couch and think about

how living’s just a promise that i made”

didn’t know what i was in for by better oblivion community center

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“there is a door to me

i’ve never seen it

sometimes i get closer to it

but i’ve never found it

at twilight i almost had it

but then the night fell

i looked out at the dark and wondered

how could i have lost it?

then one night at the park

i saw it with my cheek in the dirt

i couldn’t move underneath the dark

but at least i finally found it

it cried out a creak and opened

to show me what’s beyond it

a hopeless violence

i named it love”

door by mitski

[frogandtoadpdf]

thinking about that ilya kaminsky poem that’s like i was / in my bed, around my bed america / was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house

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we lived happily during the war - ilya kaminsky

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“i’ve been running in circles

pretending to be myself

why would somebody do this on purpose

when they could do something else?

drowning out the morning birds

with the same three songs over and over

i wish i wrote it, but i didn’t so i learn the words

hum along ‘til the feeling’s gone forever

took a tour to see the stars

but they weren’t out tonight

so i wished hard on a chinese satellite

i want to believe

instead, i look at the sky and i feel nothing

you know i hate to be alone

i want to be wrong

you were screamin at the evangelicals

they were screamin right back from what i remember

when you said i will never be your vegetable

because i think when you’re gone, it’s forever

but you know i’d stand on the corner

embarrassed with a picket sign

if it meant i would see you when i die

sometimes, when i can’t sleep

it’s just a matter of time before i’m hearing things

swore i could feel you through the walls

but that’s impossible

i want to believe

that if i go outside i’ll see a tractor beam

coming to take me to where i’m from

i want to go home”

chinese satellite by phoebe bridgers

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“i’m singing at a funeral tomorrow

for a kid a year older than me

and i’ve been talking to his dad; it makes me so sad

when i think too much about it i can’t breathe

and i have this dream where i’m screaming underwater

while my friends are waving from the shore

and i don’t need you to tell me what’s that means

i don’t believe in that stuff anymore

jesus christ i’m so blue all the time

and that’s just how i feel

always have and i always will

i always have and always will

i have a friend i call

when i’ve bored myself to tears

and we talk until we think we might just kill ourselves

and then we laugh until it disappears

and last night, i blacked out in my car

and i woke up in my childhood bed

wishing i was someone else, feeling sorry for myself

when i remembered someone’s kid is dead”

from funeral by phoebe bridgers

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“they say she was seen on occasion

pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea

and in a feud with her neighbor

she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green

fifty years is a long time

holiday house sat quietly on that beach

free of women with madness, their men and bad habits

and then it was bought by me

who knows, if i never showed up what could’ve been

there goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen

i had a marvelous time ruining everything”

from the last great american dynasty by taylor swift

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“always surprised by what i do for love

somethings i never expect

they killed a fan down by the stadium

was only visiting, they beat him to death”

from halloween by phoebe bridgers

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“one of your eyes is always half-shut

something happened when you were a kid

i didn’t know you then and i’ll never understand

why it feels like i did”

from smoke signals by phoebe bridgers

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poem by @thedaintyfunk on tik tok

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“he rose slowly through the groves of dry sunflower stalks left over from better years, and it was then he saw a bright green humming bird shimmering above the dry sandy ground, flying higher and higher until it was only a bright speck. then it was gone. but it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.”

from pages 95-96 of ceremony by leslie marmon silko

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“ I

among twenty snowy mountains,

the only moving thing

was the eye of the blackbird.

II

I was of three minds,

like a tree

in which there are three blackbirds.

III

the blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.

it was a small part of the pantomime.

IV

a man and a woman

are one.

a man and a woman and a blackbird

are one.

V

i do not know which to prefer,

the beauty of inflections

or the beauty of innuendos,

the blackbird whistling

or just after.

VI

icicles filled the long window

with barbaric glass.

the shadow of the blackbird

crossed it, to and fro.

the mood

traced in the shadow

an indecipherable cause.

VII

o thin men of haddam,

why do you imagine golden birds?

do you not see how the blackbird

walk around the feet

of the women about you?

VIII

i know noble accents

and lucid, inescapable rhythms;

but i know, too,

that the blackbird is involved

in what i know.

IX

when the blackbird flew out of sight,

it marked the edge

of one of many circles.

X

at the sight of blackbirds

flying in a green light,

even the bawds of euphony

would cry out sharply.

XI

he rode over connecticut

in a glass coach.

once, a fear pierced him,

in that he mistook

the shadow of his equipage

for blackbirds.

XII

the river is moving.

the blackbird must be flying.

XIII

it was evening all afternoon.

it was snowing

and it was going to snow.

the blackbird sat

in the cedar-limbs.”

thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird by wallace stevens

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

[doomedvoyages]

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“cause in my

in my head i do everything right

when you call

when you call i forgive and not fight

because ours

are the moments i play in the dark

we were wild and fluorescent

come home to my heart”

from supercut by lorde

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“end

in the middle of my heart

and my life

cause were

already out this far

holy one

although the monster’s in his cave

if we keep quiet, we’ll be safe

take your lovely rope and wrap around my brain

until the muscles ache and strain

i’ll be happy on the day i squish the bug

that sucks my blood and has me drugged

swallow all of my teeth and shut the blinds

i can go another one, two, three, four, fiver more times”

cunk by jack stauber