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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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Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"
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frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley
#own post#booklr#literature#reading#books#litblr#for your web weaving needs#quote#quotes#mary shelley#mary shelly's frankenstein#victor frankenstein#henry clerval#HENRY..... dear beloved ....#please forget your scarf#to be alone with you#on love#on companionship#on friendship
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frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley
#own post#booklr#literature#reading#books#litblr#for your web weaving needs#quote#quotes#mary shelley#frankenstein#mary shelly's frankenstein#victor frankenstein#just to be alive on this fresh morning#on survival#hold on tight and dont let go#despite everything
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