mydrunkpoet

You know after you knock back one too many drinks, and then check your memos the next day, only to find a slew of gibberish and the occassional gem of a writing? Read my mistakes forever immortalised on the internet, filed under #mydrunkpoet

[lecataste]

[lecataste]

Richard Brautigan | Trout Fishing in America | 1967

[unchildhood]

ANIS MOJGANI x ALEXANDER HARDING

‘For Those Who Can Still Ride In An Airplane For The First Time’, spoken word, uploaded on Youtube on 20 Apr. 2009;

Visible Light series (2010), photography

[quotemadness]

“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories…they’re the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.”

— Rohinton Mistry

[quotemadness]

“…and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”

— Gillian Flynn

[quotemadness]

“Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”

— Francesca Zappia

[quotemadness]

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”

— Ally Condie

[quotemadness]

“Why is it,’ he said, one time, at the subway entrance, ‘I feel I’ve known you so many years?’ ‘Because I like you,’ she said, ‘and I don’t want anything from you.”

— Ray Bradbury

[quotemadness]

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”

— Lili St. Crow

[watchoutforintellect]

“Then I met you and unavoidably you were special.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to W. D. Snodgrass featured in A Self-Portrait in Letters

[yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, March 22, 1910

[saundering-deactivated20180828]

this is entirely accurate actually

[unchildhood]

LORA MATHIS

‘If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It’ by @lora-mathis;

original photos and edit

[rollingstoneboycomplex]

when Lemony Snicket wrote “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday” that hurt me

[japanpix]

Kabukichō, Tokyo. [OC]

[watchoutforintellect]

“Other loves still breathe deep inside me.”

— Wislawa Szymborska - from “First Love” featured in Monologue of a Dog

[alissanicoleee]

“She was the kind of girl you’d want to spend your Sunday with. Because with some people, even running errands seems like an adventure.”

— (via c0ntemplations)

[madswoearth]

All of my days

[smakkabagms]

“I, with my romantic need and longing,”

— Susan Sontag, from a journal entry featured in Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

[beingnikki]

“Wildly tender, and whimsical, talkative, paradoxically awkward,”

— Colette, tr. by Matthew Ward, from The Collected Stories; “The Cure,” (via violentwavesofemotion)