Lit (or:  to the scientist I am not speaking to any more) 
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Don’t say you didn’t see this coming, Jason.

Don’t say you didn’t realize this would be my reaction
and that you never intended for me to get all worked up,
because if that were true, then you are dumber
than Lenny from Mice and Men, blinder than Oedipus
and Tierus put ( Read more... )

This poem was written for me. The poet was in my head and wanted me and stole my thoughts. He knew just how much of my heart would burst and spill upon reading the poem.

"A Little Love Poem"
Andy Weaver

Someone who hates scrabble.

Someone who sleeps on her back near an open window in winter, her breath rolling like a river into night.

Someone who wants ( Read more... )

I be that man on the moon
I'm that man on the moon
And imma do what I do so
Do you hey hey
I be posted with my blunt and a brew my dude
I'm that man on the moon
I'm up up on the moon


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sometimes, you just gotta say "what the fuck."

James Wright poems, from his book, Two Citizens

from Voices Between Waking & Sleeping in the Mountains

Annie, it has taken me a long time to live.
And to take a long time to live is to take a long time
To understand that your life is your own life.
What you found on that long rise of mountain in the snow
Is your secret. But I can tell you at last:

There ( Read more... )

from To Mary

I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou art not there;
I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,
And press the common air.
Thy eyes are gazing upon mine,
When thou art out of sight;
My lips are always touching thine,
At morning, noon, and night.

I think and speak of other things
To keep my mind at rest:
But still to thee my memory clings
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it's good to be back in all my old ways again. it's good to be in love with happiness and feeling good and loving yourself and having a good time. it's good to live for yourself and do things for yourself and live up to your own standards and be just so proud of yourself. it's good to have a backbone. it's good to be strong and independent. it's ( Read more... )

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorbed me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving - I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you...I have been astonished that ( Read more... )

This was on the literaryquotes community today:

True lovers tread this path and turn aside
From this world and the next unsatisfied;
Their souls rise up from death and seek above
The undiscovered, secret home of love.

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

this song is on repeat: 

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When the cold of winter comes
Starless night will cover day
In the ( Read more... )

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Finn Andrews of The Veils.
I hope they come back to DC again.
I have a need to see and hear him,
over and over and over again.