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I WANT YOU TO BE MINE. SELFISHLY, THOUGHTLESSLY, MINE

@vaitiolo ; // “Orpheus and Eurydice”, by Virgil; // H.G. Wells, from a letter to Rebecca West (w. April, 1913); // “No, I don’t miss the dissipated night’s”, by Alexander Pushkin (tr. by D.M. Thomas) (1832); // “Blue is the Warmest Color”, by Ghalia Lacroix (2013); // “The Voyage Out”, by Virginia Woolf (1915); // Virgina Woolf; // “Soft Human”, by Emery Allen (2019)

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Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Held," originally published in 2003

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A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

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Grieve AND organize.

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

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Pine Box

go on without me

like a highway cemetery

have a field day with my heart

bury my sleeping form

scantily clad in barbed wire

laugh and tell all of your friends

it’s because i don’t talk to my father

i’ll develop adult onset asthma

and stay in the spot you left me in

i’ll wake among the pines

some odd years later

in steel toed fortitude

i swear to god i’m fine

what’s your take?

am i cautionary or an eye sore?

you treated me like you’ve

never lost anything before

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this is genuinely the greatest advice out there. i don't even think there's anything i can add just read it again and again. from rainer maria rilke. aka chill :)

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Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

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TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

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With each breath that I take, it serves as a reminder that the grass I step on will soon bloom flowers. The droplets of water cascading along the surface of my skin come from such a repetitive process called life, and I'm living in it. I'm glad I am. I'm glad I can breathe.

sai's heart — the beginning (1.5)

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i love to learn about my cat i love to google “should you trim cat last claw? trim all cat claws? cat last claw called? cat fifth claw? cat claws labelled. trim cat dew claw?” and then say hi graham i learned something about you! your weird claw is called a dew claw and it will not be worn down by regular walking so it is extra important to be diligent about trimming to prevent it growing into your paw pad! and he bites me and bites me

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My husband said “hey look, it’s your friend” when we were on a walk and when I clearly couldn’t find a familiar face on the sidewalk he pointed to the mourning dove resting on the branch above us

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the august preoccupations by Catherine Barnett

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i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you