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Past Lives (2023)

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John Yau, from "Borrowed Love Poems," featured in Boston Review (edited)

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last days of june🕊️

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

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Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir

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tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

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[Text ID: Yours, yours. I was painted for you.]

— Donna Tartt, from “The goldfinch.”

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Things always return to a man & his desire to be touched, & touch, That want to be known, governs us all.

— Reginald Dwayne Betts, “City of the Moon”

And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me. Just take this longing from my tongue, all the lonely things my hands have done.

— Leonard Cohen, “Take This Longing”

don’t you know they bury men like me alive with all of our sentimental longing.

— Hanif Abdurraqib, “It’s Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die”

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The world is on one side, and you are on the other. When I have you, I have no need for anyone else.

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You've got the kind of eyes that make me say forever

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Now that you're close, I feel like coming undone

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the sensual world. louise glück

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Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

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could u do a web weave about "the right person, wrong time"???

? // the song of achilles, madeline miller // normal people, sally rooney // our hearts synchronize // bright star: love letters and poems of john keats to fanny brawne, john keats // eurydice & orpheus

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AM I MAKING YOU FEEL SICK? // DEVOTION THAT EATS YOU ALIVE

unknown // Chris Abani Dog Woman // 小年的你 Better Days (2019) dir. Derek Tsang // Frank Bidart GUILTY OF DUST // Yves Olade "Slaughterhouse;" Belovéd // unknown // Mitski First Love / Late Spring // Taylor Swift I Almost Do // 堕落天使 Fallen Angels (1995) dir. Wong Kar-wai // David Foster Wallace // Ethel Cain Strangers // Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 天官赐福 Heaven Official's Blessing