What we’re reading @itsPeteski

Love Begins
Cosimo Galluzzi
dirt enthusiast
Keni
Cosmic Funnies
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.

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todays bird

Origami Around

oozey mess

pixel skylines
noise dept.

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tannertan36
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

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What we’re reading @itsPeteski
Hey!! I'd like a poem, my friend.
“The Mystery of the Seagulls”by Ana Božičević in Rise in the Fall
Please love mewhile there’s still days. I’ll never have that breakthroughlet’s face it, I’ll stay just like this, a little fish, no I mean a dreamhere and there - I’ll keep making likeI have personality, not thislittle steady flamein a darkened field. With the wheat bunched up for baling. No,I’ll never be that sexy. Never to seduce you &always cry bitterly at advice columns - I cry to think all those people are just as ugly as meand on the insidethey’re getting their big breakin front of gleaming listeningshipyardsI love how lonely it is out on this ocean. Can I tell you a story?A story:the big fish jumped and grabbedthe gull of today.She swallowed. She jumped again butthe gull of tomorrowstepped back; she kept at it and he was alwaysjust out of sync - This is not how it’s supposedto go, fish said. Anyway, what kind of tomorrowcan you have without today? Justsayin - And at that same moment millions of plastic bitssettled on your plateon the table in the middle of the ocean…What?The waving tablecloth, the waves. Where’severyone? You ate all yourdinner companions, and now -open the book in front of you. It says:the world gave itself to youbut you didn’t giveyou, grasshopper, back: ah so. This suffering. Is it always a kind of gift?After the rapture, amid the lions and the limnsyou’ll see me and know thatme being into youwas me being into the world. Are you as into the worldas the world is into you? No, I’m not being weird.What I’m saying is, there is a sustainable energy. My greataunt, for example, the way she bunchedhay at the base of that little pear treeto safeproof it from drought. She could barely walk - but it was the kind of thing you could see from the moonandas I walked away from her house Ican’t explain it, the trees were screaming,a finger pressed from the skydown on the field the whole of whichwas my sex. And earlier in her room I felt like pukingwhen she told meshe saw only a big light in front of mebut instead of the big light I walked intobig silence andthere you stood. End of story.Is this what you meantwhen you said we should watch some porn together?When the smoke clearedI could see the field upskirt all the way to the end of tomorrow. Westood a little to the side of it,cicadas next to their old driedshell. The sky there’s classic blue, the campanile goes offin the Croatian Savannah morning, and franklythis tomorrow can take care of itself - we’ll know how to be old. What I needus to be now is nudes,painted by no-one. Don’t you see the museums are just giant strip clubsand the backyard’s the gallery where you can touchevery single work - there’s no-one hereto tell us how to do this, except forthe millions of idolsglimmering fluttering turning I’m staying in this day becauseall my friends are still here.
(send me a msg & i’ll rec you a poem)
Time to put on my
Overall Entusiasm!
Source: Alvhem Mäkleri
Professors give warnings of all sorts that, when not explicitly entangled in the national politics of political correctness, amount less to coddling than to minimizing chances of disengagement with material. “Block off more time this weekend than you usually do, since the reading for Monday is a particularly long one,” for instance, is a reasonable way of reducing the number of students who show up unprepared by issuing a warning. “Today we’re discussing a poem about rape, so be prepared for some graphic discussion, and come to office hours if you have things to say about the poem that you’re not comfortable expressing in class,” meanwhile, is a similarly reasonable way of relieving the immediate pressure to perform in class, which stresses out so many students… If you take away the media hysteria surrounding trigger warnings, you’re left with a mode of conversational priming that we all use: “You might want to sit down for this”; “I’m not sure how to say this, but…” It’s hardly anti-intellectual or emotionally damaging to anticipate that other people may react to traumatic material with negative emotions, particularly if they suffer from PTSD; it’s human to engage others with empathy. It’s also human to have emotional responses to life and literature, responses that may come before, but in no way preclude, a dispassionate analysis of a text or situation.
The Trigger Warning Myth, Aaron R. Hanlon.
it frankly baffles me that I’ve almost never seen people recognizing that “hey, here’s a preview of what we’re going to discuss next week” (’trigger warning’ buzzword optional) is good pedagogy, and so many of these professors who are very Defensive about being emotionally harmful to their students have a disproportionate sense of self-importance (and a really bad idea of what education is about). the material teachers use is not a surprise to be inflicted upon their students; classrooms are not places for them to “blow their students’ minds.”
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Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Ryszard <3
please stop getting mad at cashiers for prices they have no control over
Or not being able to take your expired coupon.
or not being able to break any rule that is store or company policy
Or not being able to make the manager come up to the cash register any quicker
Or their registers having technical troubles
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.
Vera Pavlova, adding to our ongoing archive of advice on writing.
Complement with Ezra Pound’s don'ts for budding poets and how to read a poem.
(↬ Andrew Sullivan)