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two poems i wrote about you

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my favorite poems

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - May Elizabeth Frye

The End Poem - Julian Gough

There Will Come Soft Rains - Sara Teasdale

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turning seventeen didn’t hit me until the winter months - written november 2021

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that’s Doctor Taylor Swift to you

I’m so proud of her. she looks so radiant, beautiful, and happy today

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if all else fails, I have taylor swift

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you came to me in a dream - written december 2021

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life was summer - may 2022

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your bitch - may 2022

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I’m just gonna be happy from now on, i think

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I love unconditionally I love and I love and I love I love ferociously and my love is a wild horse and my love is a hicktown haunted with burning memories and waltzes on a porch my love is a time traveler and I have loved you when you felt small and now I see you out there in the water, wading, so tall, and I know I’ll love you forever my love is on Mars with all of Ray Bradbury’s stories and my love is the autumn moon guiding you home my love is sacred and vintage my love is the dwindling pain in the small of your back as you plunge the limbs of a rake into the harvest dirt you feel unimportant in a big, big world but you don’t know you’re all that I see I’ll love until my curve becomes a sphere and until the sun is a lonely white dwarf until it all envelopes around me my love will be the downbound train and the laughing place and the scarf left at your sister’s house loving is the only thing that comes easy to me and I will use it and use it and use it I’ll drink from that garden hose ‘til it runs dry and I’ll do it all for you

by me

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the small town american boy, a rant

it’s been years and years of me consuming every book, every movie, every tv show, every playwright that hoists the small town american boy trope.

there’s something wrong with this town, bikes that get kicked around and left outside at night, pink houses, rocky mountain high, crushing on older sisters, bob dylan, supernatural forces, etc.

you know it. from Stephen King’s It to the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things, it’s a favorite trope of mine, and a favorite trope of our country’s. 

maybe it’s the blatant american dream undertones. like Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. album cover, or homemade berry pies and the wild, unforgiving winds that birth the small town american boy. the one who spends his whole life cursing this town, trying to get out. the one that always finds his way back, despite his efforts to get lost. 

Like Kurt Cobain said, “She should’ve been a son,” maybe there’s just a part of me that yearns to be a boy. maybe there’s a part of me that yearns to be small again. the irony of innocent middle school boys cracking jokes about your mother and grotesque sexual acts, maybe there’s a fine line between being young and being old.

who said when we grow up there’s an end to being wild? there’s an end to impulsive decisions. if I’m out late at night, why must I been drunk? why must I be out partying or making bad decisions? maybe I’m twelve again, maybe I’m laughing with my friends as we walk along the train tracks. maybe I’m looking at the world like I’m brand new, finding the joy of sitting in the wild reeds. 

maybe I’m twelve again.

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She should’ve made her mother proud, she should’ve been a son

Kurt Cobain, Been a Son

In light of the Roe v. Wade leak, I’ve been thinking a lot about the satiric Nirvana song, Been a Son, where Cobain pokes fun at the opinions men have on women, though they all came from a woman themselves.

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If I could go back in time, I’d come and find you

by me

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the parallels between Mitski’s Lush and Taylor Swift’s Debut album

The encapsulating debut albums for both artists bring together the crippling feeling of being a young woman to fruition. Swift was at the ripe age of 16, whilst Mitski was 22. Both albums reflect the idea of growing up, being force fed the ideals of the patriarchy, and young, chivalrous love.

Tied Together With a Smile / Liquid Smooth

Both seemingly about being a young woman in her ripest form, Taylor takes more of an outsider approach, witnessing the decline of a woman’s mental health as she questions her beauty. Mitski takes the problem head on, however, claiming she’s in her prime and men should take advantage while she’s still young.

“Seems the only one who doesn’t see your beauty is the face in the mirror staring back at you”

“I’m beautiful, I know ‘cause it’s the season”

“You cry, but you don’t tell anyone that you might not be the golden one”

“I’m at my highest peak, I’m ripe, about to fall, capture me”

Teardrops on My Guitar / Eric

Appropriately, Mitski’s is much more sensual and tense. Taylor’s is, appropriately, more of an adolescent take on not getting what you wanted.

“She’s got everything that I have to live without”

“My heart wants to hold you, but I know, I know, I know the rules”

“He’s all that I need to fall into”

“I’ll sell my heart to you”

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Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

Virginia Woolf

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I miss everything

Jo March <3