Audile

A world of sound and occasional observations.

[rickyjamz]

[april-is]

April 30, 2013: Tear It Down, Jack Gilbert

Tear It Down Jack Gilbert We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond affection and wade mouth-deep into love. We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. But going back toward childhood will not help. The village is not better than Pittsburgh. Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh. Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls of the garbage tub is more than the stir of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within that body. ==

Jack Gilbert – who I used to call maybe the greatest living poet – died this past year.  Here are some more of his: + I Imagine The Gods + A Brief for the Defense + Getting Away with It + Not Getting Closer + Alone

On this day in:

2012: from An Atlas of the Difficult World, Adrienne Rich 2011: Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal, Naomi Shihab Nye 2010: from Pioneers! O Pioneers!, Walt Whitman 2009: from The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot 2008: from Five-Finger Exercises, T.S. Eliot 2007: Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot 2006: Preludes, T.S. Eliot 2005: A Song for Simeon, T.S. Eliot

Aaaand, that’s a wrap on National Poetry Month 2013!  Thanks so much for reading along.  See you next year: same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.  In the meantime, you can make your way through the archive of poems from past years to see what you find. Getting to be quite a few in there.

[itscolossal]

Watch: A Studio Interview with Embroidery Portrait Artist Cayce Zavaglia [video]

[yahoonews]

[wilwheaton]

And you can see Hillary is all, “Um. Yeah. That’s how the prison-industrial complex works, dummy. VOTE FOR ME.”

[nydailynews]

A preview of tomorrow’s front page. Politicians’ “Thoughts and Prayers” didn’t help for the other 350+ shootings in 2015. DO SOMETHING.

[gifbro]

[4gifs]

How to make a triple-bird for your haters. [video]

[iguanamouth]

[femininefreak]

Over the next few days, please remember this; the NRA isn’t a civil right group, as they pretend. They’re lobbyists for gun manufacturers.

[sandandglass]

The Nightly Show, July 22, 2015

[dippedgaming]

Say it again

[dockterfrankensteez]

DEADASS!!!

[thedarkestlovee]

Aaaaand they will disbar a lawyer QUICK but these cops get paid vacation.

[brandieblaze]

All I’m saying is you need a master’s to be a social worker, but you can be a cop with a high school diploma. Like, on what fucking planet do that make sense?

[theomenroom]

Cops don’t have to know the law.

There was a supreme court decision recently that a cop is not falsely detaining someone if they’re doing something the cop reasonably believes is against the law, even if it’s actually legal. I think the specific case was about someone driving with a broken taillight in a state where a car is street-legal so long as at least one of its taillights works.

Meanwhile, as a civilian, ignorance of the law is not a defense.

Cops are not required to know the laws they enforce. You are required to know every law you might conceivably break. But then, of course, if you backtalk a cop because you have better knowledge of the law than they do, and they respond violently, good luck winning that.

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

Hair stylists go through a longer period of education and stricter licensing with violations in the state of California than cops do.

[thechanelmuse]

[platinumblondeproblem]

☕️🐸

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

He’s got my vote

[fullten-deactivated20240430]

He’s ready to fucking fight 👊

[fresh-biscuits]

He sounds wonderful, but in the back of my mind I’m waiting for him to fuck up. T_T Please, don’t do it, Bernie.

[fullten-deactivated20240430]

No politician is perfect because all politicians are people. He has signed off on questionable bills before, he is not perfect, but he is the best hope we have right now

[nevver]

Repository, Kristyna Baczynski

[rickyjamz]

Being cool

[krxs10]

This is absolutely disgusting but unfortunately, not surprising in the least. This is the daily life and struggle of young girls that a lot of men don’t wanna believe exists. 

If you don’t believe this, just ask any of your female friends, or google some statistics yourself. 

this is our reality.

[dynastylnoire]

I was 7.

[joepieweed]

I was like 10

[oogilyboogilyboo-deactivated201]

Ugh this is so sad. 

[elderparaiah]

I was 10 when I first noticed

[robochai]

I thought that this might be helpful to talk about.

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[rickyjamz]

A thousand times YES. This was a frequent tactic used by my father from whom I've selectively been estranged for seven years now. Once I extricated myself from the web of crazymaking that was my family dynamic I learned that it wasn't me who had the problem. In emotional conflicts I still struggle with the idea that it's always my fault or because I'm not good enough but I at least recognize how this thought pattern originated.

[rickyjamz]

Thinking I should start a blog about making pies and showcasing boobs.

[sashayed]

ps: in case u guys didn’t know, this is Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the case that just made gay marriage LEGAL for EVERYBODY IN AMERICA. His husband and partner of 21 years, John Arthur, died of complications from ALS while they were fighting for their home state of Ohio to recognize the validity of their marriage (which took place in Maryland). The Obergefell case centers on Jim’s right to be recognized on his terminally-ill husband’s death certificate. That’s John in the photo. Jim is still carrying it on CNN right now.