Jul 6, 2024
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ever since i read this poem by e e cummings many years ago the phrase “puddle-wonderful” has been a permanent feature of my vocabulary. happy spring everyone!
also love the queer goat footed man, me asf
Mar 21, 2025
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I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?
Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better?
Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless.
Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia?
Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
Mar 5, 2024
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my last rec reminded me of this. incredibly smart and moving collection of poetry, detailing the opioid crisis of Appalachia through the eyes of urban legend cryptid Mothman. wish i could read it for the first time again!
Jan 24, 2024
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i was stupidly lucky in my last year of college to have taken a seminar that covered four of baldwin's major essay collections: notes of a native son (1955), nobody knows my name (1961), the fire next time (1963), and no name in the street (1972), all available in the volume of his collected essays edited by toni morrison.
maybe this is overly sentimental, but i think baldwin taught me what it means to be an honest person and a good writer, the two great aspirations he adopts in his first book. he also taught me what it means to be a compassionate but unsparing social and political critic of american modernity.
reading baldwin was the first time i've ever felt truly at home in a text. few other works have affected me like his.
Jun 11, 2024
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sometimes you just see a cutie on public transit and gotta post your yearning somewhere
Nov 12, 2024
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very late, but have been obsessing for the past few weeks. pastel blue ford bronco now the most iconic car of the year
Aug 4, 2024