NOBODY'S PUSSYCAT

NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE I'M AN UGLY MOTHERFUCKER

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé, featured in A Love Story In Letters

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Louise Glück, from “Parodos”, Poems 1962-2012

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I Remember The Carrots Ada Limón

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fetish mule with ruffled ribbon - 8 inch heel, Austria, 19th century

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June, July, August. Every day, we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.

Mary Oliver, from "August"

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I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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A Palestinian fighter holds up his gun during the group funeral of Shahid Barakat, 8, his sister Malak, 3, and Fatah activist Hassan al-Khadi, 27, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 1, 2001.

(Photo credit: Scott Nelson/AFP)

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Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

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photographer: Hervé Guibert

Vincent Nu Couché Villa Medicis, 1988

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English Victorian 15k Gold Snake Necklace with Cabochon Garnet

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I Love You Again (W.S. Van Dyke, 1940)

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Bedouin woman of Palestine. Scanned from the book The World of Allah; 1983; David Douglas Duncan

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Arboreal cryptid. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

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