May 22, 2025
EXACTLY HANIF!!! EXACTLY!!!
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EXACTLY HANIF!!! EXACTLY!!!
A Fortune for Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib (2019)
The Prestige (pg iii)
“The poem begins with pain as a mirror / inside of which I adjust a tie the way my father taught me / before my first funeral & so the poem begins / with old grief again at my neck.”
“A person only gets to be walled a widow once, / and then they are simply lonely.”
“Gratitude, not for love itself, but for the way it can end / without a house on fire.”
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It is Once Again the Summer of My Discontent & This is How We Do It
“is creeping out of some open window same way it was in the summer of ‘95 when my heartbreak was a different animal howling at the same clouds"
“i tell my boys there is a reason songs from the ‘90s are having a revival & it’s because the heart & tongue are the muscles with the most irresistible histories & i’m kind of buzzed. i’m kind of buzzing. i’m kind of a hive with no begging & hollow cavities. there is intimacy in the moment where the eyes of two enemies meet. there is a tenderness in knowing what desire ties you to a person"
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Watching a Fight at the New Haven Dog Park, First Two Dogs and Then Their Owners
“I, too, dress for the hell I want & not the hell that is most likely coming"
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Welcome to the Heartbreak
“no one asks me to smile these days & so here is my mouth, again a straight line. border between an ocean & thirst.”
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It’s Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die
“No one wants to imagine their god // as the knuckles cracking on a father watching his son / picking a good switch from the tree and certainly // no one wants to imagine their god as the tree.”
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You About to Tell Her You Love Her, We Off That
“& the funny thing about the boy who cries wolf is that he eventually becomes one”
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One Side of an Interview with the Ghost of Marvin Gaye
“I think what I’m saying is that I prayed to any sound I could tempt out of a body.”
“hunger is whatever shape the moonlight pulls your shadow into.”
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It is Maybe Time to Admit that Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off
“there is an ocean between us the length of my arm & I have built nothing for you that can survive it”
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How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This (pg. 80)
“Forgive me, for I have been nurturing / my well-worn grudges against beauty.”
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How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This (pg. 89)
“& to adorn yourself in the tools of your eventual undoing is not by itself / romance & to wear your demise across your own shoulders is not romance. // but, like the poppy, I have become something more dangerous than I was once / & this is how I have learned my heart’s worst fears.”
“may even the residue of our love find a curve of wind to dance an echo into.”
he gets it to a degree very very few are capable
thanks hanif. cool and normal as always!
i ALSO wish more people talked about the moments that build up to a potential brawl as intimacy.
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
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“At the intersection of all these things is a similar dream: the type of player who comes along and knows exactly how to tie each emotional thread at the end of the match. Mohamed Salah is a player who offers several glimpses into many places at once. To be honest, he is not aiming to unify the world but to shrink it. So that everyone has a small place to sing and bow in praise. Not to him but beside him.”, writes Hanif Abdurraqib on Mohamed Salah (via Bleacher Report)