#M by Mikko Harvey

[idontmindifuforgetme]

don’t be a stranger! (please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it)

[firstfullmoon]

Steve Scafidi, from “Ode to And”

[nope-nora]

happy valentine’s day!

Tia Williams, Seven Days in June | Mikko Harvey, “For M” | Niall Horan, “You Could Start A Cult” | @mjalti | Catullus, 48 | Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story | @kanyasstuff | @chloeinletters | Plutarch, Moralia | @/vwictims on X

[ilyiwantusbothtoeatwell]

i will linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. i will forget my scarf in your life & come back later for it btw. if you even care

[lifeinpoetry]

I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy — I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away.

— Mikko Harvey, from "For M," Let the World Have You

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"The number / of hours / we have / together is / actually not / so large. / Please linger / near the / door uncomfortably / instead of / just leaving."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

[oflights]

from For M

The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it. 

Mikko Harvey (read the full poem here)

[outstanding-quotes]

Mikko Harvey, “For M”

[nooksickle]

For M

By Mikko Harvey

[annecriedpower]

they should invent someone who will linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving, who will forget their scarf in my life and come back later for it

[heart-songs]

The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.

Mikko Harvey, For M

[totul]

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes it’s funny watching a surprise happen, and not just funny but kind of amazing — like, you never really know what’s what when it comes to this planet. Then again, when it’s you getting surprised, that’s different. Especially for tender ones like us.

— Mikko Harvey, from "For M," Let the World Have You

[warlockofagnesi]

Poem for the week.

For M

by Mikko Harvey

​I don’t want you to be nervous. Maybe thinking of a walrus would help. Have you seen the video of the penguin accidentally stepping on a sleeping walrus? It thought it was a rock. The walrus wakes up like what the fuck and the penguin scurries off like oh shit. Sometimes it’s funny watching a surprise happen, and not just funny but kind of amazing—like, you never really know what’s what when it comes to this planet. Then again, when it’s you getting surprised, that’s different. Especially for tender ones like us. What are we supposed to do? It’s bad for our hearts, you know. I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy— I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away. What the fuck. The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it. 

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.”

— Mikko Harvey, from "For M," Foundry (no. 9, September 2018)

[melophobia2013]

for m

​I don’t want you to be nervous. Maybe thinking of a walrus would help. Have you seen the video of the penguin accidentally stepping on a sleeping walrus? It thought it was a rock. The walrus wakes up like what the fuck and the penguin scurries off like oh shit. Sometimes it’s funny watching a surprise happen, and not just funny but kind of amazing — like, you never really know what’s what when it comes to this planet. Then again, when it’s you getting surprised, that’s different. Especially for tender ones like us. What are we supposed to do? It’s bad for our hearts, you know. I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy —  I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away. What the fuck. The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.

Mikko Harvey