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Jenny Holzer, Living Series: It’s an extraordinary feeling…, 1981
Text on cast bronze plaque 7 5/8 x 10 inches (19.4 x 25.4 cm), edition 3/3
Text from Living, 1980-82
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What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day
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I just know back then in 60 ad proto fujoshis Esquilina and Procula were reading the satyricon by petronius while kicking their feet and giggling
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June Gehringer, “EARTH IS AN ANAGRAM FOR HEART, U FUCKING IDIOTS”
[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]
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Jenny Holzer. You Live the Surprise Results of Old Plans (from the Survival Series), 1983-1985
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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Work," featured in The Southern Review (edited)
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Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty: Poems; “Entanglement”
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