December 2011
23 posts
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“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray,
go throw your TV set away
and in its...”
– Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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“and I’ve been running for home
through the windpipe of a man who sings
while...”
– Andrea Gibson - Birthday (via hellosoulshine)
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“Our poetry is the technique of intimacy, two lovers that hold each other not to...”
– Ken Chen, “Poetry and the Humans.” Pleiades 24:2.
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trente-trois
xerophytic:
i’m staring at fragments of my life falling apart right in front of my eyes, but i can’t find anything inside that cares enough to reach out and stop them.
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“The mad road, lonely, leading around the bend into the openings of space towards...”
– Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
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excerpt, "a part of the thousand ways to say...
... the bare train tracks
rusting under the moon
who are you really
eyes
arch down as if from a tremendous height
yet I've seen you small
hunched
in mottled woods
goodbye
to the swords we carried bright
or chipped & stained
against
cobalt sky the last
brown apricots of summer
filling our mouths the
brocade of
the saddle blankets frayed
wind
plucking the cords
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“that guests no longer come unannounced
or that the photo album contains...”
– Denver Butson, Never Mind (via yesyes)
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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
– Walt Whitman (via escolma)
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"On Turning Ten"
The whole idea of it makes me feel
like I’m coming down with something,
something worse than any stomach ache
or the headaches I get from reading in bad light—
a kind of measles of the spirit,
a mumps of the psyche,
a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.
You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
but that is because you have forgotten
the perfect simplicity of being one
and the...
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Susannah reflected that Roland seemed different now, and she didn’t think it was simply because the voices in his mind had ceased. This is the way he was when he still had wars to fight and men to lead and his old friends around him, she thought. How he was before the world moved on and he moved on with it, chasing that man Walter. This is how he was before the Big Empty turned him inward on...
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“Are your voices gone?”
Roland nodded. “All gone. Yours?”
“Gone. I’m all together again. We both are.”
They looked at the same instant, with the same impulse. As Roland swept Jake into his arms, the boy’s unnatural self-possession broke and he began to cry— it was the exhausted, relieved weeping of a child who has been lost long, suffered...
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“Do not remember me
as disaster
nor as the keeper of secrets
I am a fellow...”
– Audre Lorde
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“And now each night, I count the stars.
And each night I get the same number....”
– Leroi Jones
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drpridemore:
Words
by Hettie Jones
are keys
or stanchions
or stones
I give you my word
You pocket it
and keep the change
Here is a word on
the tip of my tounge:love
I hold it close
though it dreams of leaving
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“Birds sang cheerily in the trees. A light breeze blew along the road. Eddie and...”
– The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, by Stephen King (via skulllduggery)
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“If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence...”
– The Man in Black, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger.
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“Only equals speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web...”
– Roland Deschain (via gentlestofmen)
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“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are half a hawk yourself, alone...”
– The Dark Tower Series: The Gunslinger. (via firedemondiary)
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“This door you might not open, and you did;
So enter now, and see for what...”
– Bluebeard, Edna St. Vincent Millay (via todays-explosions)