So Let Us Melt

Rachel

[voicemailpoems]

“In Which Sunset Drinks Me Under the Table Again” by Rachel Dunkel

Sunset, my apologies, but I cannot be bothered to visit tonight as I am busy vomiting up last night’s macabre radiance into the toilet— a sunset reflection in its own right.

I saw a snap of you in between hurls that made me stop for a minute to consider alternate itineraries— a parent shown a video of their child’s missed recital.

Sunset, if I had a trombone for every time this has happened, I’d be a Craigslist hero—

if I had a Bible for every sundry Sunday eve, I’d fill every Hilton’s drawers for free.

Love, I promise that next time— and there will be a next time— I will take my sorry guts into the yard, stare up into your knowing glow, throw up everything that’s ever made me miss brilliance and see my reddened eyes in you.

You are not how I want to die, but live, blossoming indecent pink onto every lawn in shameful view of neighbor’s children, always.

You never die, but live, and at this point I don’t know how you afford it.

I’m just trying to keep up.

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Rachel Dunkel called us from Asheville, NC.

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[soletusmelt]

FRIENDS! I got a poem published and I am STOKED! Also plz follow and support Voicemail Poems and their amazing work and creators and artists, ahhhhh! 

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antelope // turtleneck sweat

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[explore-blog]

Every book teaches its reader how to read it.

Wonderful conversation with Junot Diaz on the New York Public Library podcast, one of these nine podcasts for a fuller life. (via explore-blog)

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[soletusmelt]

hi, I feel really weird because everything in my life is about to change but I have no idea how and I wanted to move to Boston so much but it’s very clearly a bad idea, so I feel sad about that and am reminiscing on summer really hard in ways that suck like ~ay remember when you were really happy in that place with those people and not caring was a virtue and you just got to exist and fuck and wrestle and spin, well that wasn’t real happiness it was all fake and those people who you existed with and fucked and wrestled and spun with genuinely don’t care about you, not caring is actually terrible~ so...yeah, that’s it bye

[voicemailpoems]

“DEAR I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUTTER,” by William Ward Butler

It’s okay. These days, I don’t feel so revolutionary either. I’m content to lie on the floor and let the heat of this world ruin me. I, too, have been judged based on what I am not and contain 0% artificial preservatives. I, too, feel like an imitation of what I’m supposed to be. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to get this personal. We’re all doing the best we can at any given moment. I don’t think you know what I mean. I’m not even myself.And you’re not even butter.

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William Ward Butler called us from Santa Cruz, CA. More about William.

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[christianborger]

Allston, MA / March 19, 2014

[soletusmelt]

Last day at home. 🏄🏻 #dakines #vscocam (at DAKINE DIEGO'S Insane Burritos)

[soletusmelt]

Oh yeah, I went to Disney with the fam yesterday and it was v rainy and v cute! #Disney #vscocam (at Disney's Hollywood Studios)

[soletusmelt]

Missin' u, gross Allston walkways. Missin' u, Allston crew. Missin' u, broken glass and rats and sidewalk mattresses. This summer was indescribably perfect in all its blessed, drunken smelliness. #boston #allston #vscocam #fromwhereistand (at Pratt Street)

[soletusmelt]

One last Pratt Street roof chill. #allston #vscocam (at Cigarette Butt Miracles)

[soletusmelt]

It's my last day in Boston, and there's nothing I want to do more than eat at my favorite greasy diner in Allston with a book, occasionally looking out the window for people I know going in and out of Blanchard's Liquor, finish editing the novel, and celebrate with beers with friends on a roof. Perfect summer. 🏠🍻📚 #boston #allston #vscocam (at Steve's Kitchen)

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