#for joe

[burtsbakedbees]

[cosmicascade]

there's a line that turned and branched there's a life you almost touched and in a breeze, I turned around like it was bound to happen like all my ache had accumulated to this moment and it stopped my heart from flatlining and every beat of it yearns to feel you breathe

[thelonelyqueenofthenight]

Let’s go Kamala Harris!

Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States of America.

[vitos-pink-shirt]

I’m gonna post this for, if nothing else, my own reference because I’m sick of looking it up lol

Vito’s birthday is May 2nd, 1925

Henry’s is the 17th of July, 1911

Joe’s is November 23rd, 1924

[joenickypoems]

Supplications

O God Help me resist them

They slaughtered my camel and

authorized the shedding of my blood

in places where you forbade the spilling of blood on its prayer rugs.

O God

I seek refuge in you from the evil of my people

They sell bad wine, and spoil the drunkards' innocuous night.

O God

The tickets for the Afterlife were sold out

and I did not have the money, the time, and the reason

to buy one

so please, tear their tickets, O God

and let my heart rejoice

did you not promise us forgiveness.

O God

Send locusts to devastate all the fields

and to erase all the points

send droughts for all seasons

and swarms of birds to destroy their supplies.

O my God, you spoke the truth

kings, like presidents

when they conquer a village

they ruin it

so O my God, please destroy their palaces

so that order shall be restored in villages.

O God

Let maggots grow instead of dates

We all went to cast our votes

but no one elected those who won.

O God

My love

My support

I published a new collection

So, please let it sell without limitation

O God, you were taken prisoner by the prophets

O God, you were taken prisoner by the Caliphs

O God, you were taken prisoner by the princes

O God, you were taken prisoner by the presidents

O God, you were taken prisoner by the ministers

Why did you descend to their land

and housed me in a heavenly cloud.

O God

I heard the pious people saying frightful things about you

so when I threw my book at them, it turned into a snake

that bit them and turned back into a book.

O God, the Most High

Am I not a prophet indeed?

—Ouled Ahmed, b.1955 d.2016

translated by Houssem Ben Lazreg

[theredfieldway]

@flowerytruth Claire walked down the hallway as quietly as she could, keeping her flashlight moving. She heard a thump above her and went to investigate. She ascended the stairs carefully and opened the door to find a young man about to be bitten by a zombie. She pulled the hammer back on her gun and started firing at the zombie until she knew it was dead.

“Hey, are you alright?” She asked as she went over to the man, putting her pistol away in her holster before reaching out to him. “I’m Claire Redfield. You’re safe now.”

[laur-kay]