May 2013
9 posts
“I didn’t ask permission to make this language mine. I stole it, like I used to steal apples and corn from my childhood gardens. I took large bites out of hard words, to make them mine. My grief and my anger turned Eastern Europe into a voodoo doll.”
—Florin Firimita, “The Salt Diaries“ (via commovente)
April 2013
46 posts
“
I remember you said something like,
“the sun doesn’t set anywhere unless it sets in Tucson,”
that dusk when we sat on the hood of my car,
folded into each other like the specks of white
inside the stitches of denim jeans.
That was back when we used to laugh at how
we had become
who parents and lambs
and various shades of pure white
stayed up late wringing their hands over.
That was back when we smiling
nailed judgements by their carpenter
hands to the floorboards under the carpet.
They could eat our bread bodies for all we cared,
drink our wine blood.
But, stars die all the time.
Now it’s ten months past
“you ain’t got nothing I never had,”
and all I can do
is press my hot forehead
into the inside of a dirty window
and squint
at how people find it romantic
when the blue sky turns deep purple
like a swollen bruise.
” —“That Romantic Sunset,” Laura Van Slyke (via commovente)
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
— Vincent Van Gogh (via aslovelyasatree)
“
when men started
calling me beautiful, i cut
off all my hair and let the
woman give it to someone
who deserved the title
more.
i was raised in a home where people
walked around me as if i were a thin
sheet of glass. tip toes tips and
toes, they left me
believing that there were no such thing
as shadows.
they taught me to have faith in a god.
in myself. to believe in love and happiness
and everything that doesn’t break, but
nothing moves me anymore. not even
the memories. not even the soft hinges
of the past. i’m wearing my skin and it
clatters when i walk, and
no one prepared me for
this.
“13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters.
4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power.
14% of voters believe in Bigfoot.
15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd).
37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at 41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax” —Conspiracy Theory Poll Results - Public Policy Polling (via brooklynmutt)
4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power.
14% of voters believe in Bigfoot.
15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd).
37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at 41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax” —Conspiracy Theory Poll Results - Public Policy Polling (via brooklynmutt)
