me without make up (:
(Source: mylifeasastickperson, via austinimus)
“Jack Kerouac, I think, got it right. On my favorite recording of him, Kerouac is is drunkenly packing up his stuff after a reading when he’s asked by a saxophonist, Which is more important: the ideas or the prose?
Everyone around Kerouac laughs, as if he’s been asked some impossible chicken-or-egg question, but in the middle of all their laughter Kerouac growls: Ideas are a dime a dozen.”
From “Why We Write” by Chris Huntington
“In Texas
when the cop pulls you over
for driving in the HOV lane,
because he claims,
‘there is no passenger in the passenger seat,’
say, ‘God is my copilot. I REFUSE
to be punished for your heathen inability
to see the Lord everywhere!’
Just Kidding.
Don’t say that.”
-Traffic by Andrea Gibson
“You wanna know what the right wing never got?
We never question the existence of god.
What we question is his bulldozer
turning Palestine into a gas chamber.
What we question is the manger in Macy’s
and the sweatshops our children call the North Pole.
What we question are the sixty swollen lashes
on the back of a girl found guilty of the crime
of allowing herself to be brutally raped.
What we question is the idea of a heaven
having gates.
Silly.”
From “Thank Goodness” by Andrea Gibson
Today when I was unpacking my clothes from college, I found this wrap thing my grandma brought me back from Turkey a few years ago. You can wear it as a skirt or a dress or “100 different ways,” apparently. When she gave it to me originally I hated it and threw it on the top shelf of my closet. And tonight I fell in love with it!
My dear grandma Utku has always known what’s up, she just knows it way before I do.
What a beautiful man
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Most of the time I try to avoid reading a whole book of poetry in one night because that seems indulgent, like eating a whole box of chocolates in one night, but I just couldn’t stop when I got to this book. It’s so perfect, every single poem. I haven’t loved a book this much since I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being two years ago.
I just want to read it over and over and over again. And buy copies for the people I love the most. And buy my own copy, since this one unfortunately belongs to the library!
If you love poetry, though, especially poetry like Billy Collins’, you should read this. (Even though they are way different.)
Mitt Romney, from his Cranbrook senior yearbook: “Give a guy enough rope and he’ll hang himself.”
It’s such a shame that he was such a fox back in the day. Ugh. He sucks, but damn. That face.
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