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—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of The Island/ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women/ Unknown/ John Keats, To The Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned/ Anne Sexton, Suicide Note: The Complete Poems/ Irish Murdoch, The Italian Girls/ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Anne Sexton, The Truth the Dead Know/ Virginia Woolf, The Waves/ Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Sonnets

#poetry #intertexuality #hello JUNE!!

brookheimer

anne carson: simple moving poem about awkward dinners with not-quite-friends and the ennui that comes with realizing this mundane unhappiness is all adult life is sometimes

insane people on twitter: has she ever tried being happy? i like going to dinner with friends, what’s wrong with her? she can afford to go out to dinner, she shouldn’t complain. just be a cooler hang, skill issue. this isn’t my exact experience (i like my friends) therefore this poem is bad and unrelatable and pretentious. she can’t debone a fish? loser.

brookheimer

going through the quote tweets with my jaw hanging

incorrectposts

The poem's about feeling disconnected and rejected, and the audience stumble over themselves to avoid connecting with it and to reject it. I kind of like how closely the sad fictional world of the poem and the callous reality dovetail together 💔

saltedweather

#i would never be sad i would never be sad i would never be sad <- internal monologue of the commentary

carygrantsbeard

joining the war on “pretentiousness” on the side of the pretentious

#having a movie night soon with my pretentious friend and I am SO hype

everythingstarstuff

Patrick Ennis Artist

poetrylesbian

a little poem i wrote super quickly this morning while procrastinating uni work

#poetry

eightfourone

I found out that Diners were originally inspired by train Dining Cars. some of the oldest ones were actually just old dining cars they put on the street

eightfourone

firstgrave

sorry but it’s actually so horrific how little of a sense of community people have, how little regard they extend towards the other humans around them. killing people for being loud on the subway or turning around in your driveway. loading your gun and waiting at the door because a child ran your doorbell unexpectedly. ring cameras, neighborhoodapp, community watch group Facebook pages. you’ve assigned yourself the role of the one true peacekeeper and casted everyone else around you as a threat to be controlled. there’s no connection or love or compassion. just a deep distrust and hatred.

and the people who face the most significant consequences from this are the ones who are already deemed as outsiders. people of color, especially Black people, disabled people, people with mental illnesses, homeless people.

firstgrave

and so many people are willfully promoting this complete alienation from each other. the obsession with true crime, the hatred directed at children for existing in public spaces, the policing and controlling of where homeless people are allowed to be / what they’re allowed to do, the constant fearmongering about public transportation. you are building a society of FEAR. you are conditioning yourself to distrust everyone around you. you need to make an active, conscious effort to engage with the world and the life around you in a healthy manner.

sharkflan

almost ran off the road tonight from being blinded with headlights. fucking felt like i was being raptured

bad-moodboard

A Celtic Sky Burial, 1866 (Ein Celtic Sky Bestattung, 1866) Gustave Dore

jarofblades

František Kobliha (1877-1962)

#Krantisek my MAN #one of my first tumblr art loves #muah

derinthescarletpescatarian

Fossils are windows into the distant past, offering us glimpses of ancient creatures and the ecosystems in which they once thrived. One such

LOOK AT THESE FUCKIGN

LITTLE GUYS

THESE SCIFI LOOKIN THINGS WERE ALIVE AND THEY HUNG OUT

cineshemp

hate when I finish a really brutal movie that shakes me to my core and then I can’t even recommend it to people. like it’s incredible and everyone should see it but also I have to slap 3,000 warnings on it and tell you you’re gonna feel like shit

cineshemp

maybe it’s an unpopular opinion and I’m not saying to watch media that will trigger you on purpose obviously but I think people need to be okay with movies that make them uncomfortable sometimes. it’s good to feel like shit now and then. the beauty and horror and poignancy of the human experience shouldn’t always be watered down and neatly tied up into a palatable package. something that disturbs you can also move you. it can change you. growth is often uncomfortable. there are so many masterpieces that might profoundly affect you that you’ll miss if you only look to movies for pure entertainment and nothing else

jayxenos

Devil’s Bridge, Worm’s Head island, Rhossili, Wales by Deborah Smith

firstfullmoon

“That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.”

—

Marie Howe, from an interview taken by Victoria Redel

(via violentwavesofemotion)