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The Life with a Hole in it
When I throw my head back and howl
People (women mostly) say
But you’ve always done what you want,
You always get your own way
- A perfectly vile and foul
Inversion of all that’s been.
What the old ratbags mean
Is I’ve never done what I don’t.
So the shit in the shuttered chateau
Who does his five hundred words
Then parts out the rest of the day
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The beautiful words of Richard Brautigan
Stumbled across Richard Brautigan's work while looking for the inspiration behind this beautiful Rodarte + Elle Fanning fashion film. His writing is brief but beautiful, the kind where the words linger in your mind long after they are read.
"The Curve of Forgotten Things"
Things slowly curve out of sight
until they are gone. Afterwards
only the ( Read more... ) -
Like ice cream in summer
Today I unintentionally rebuffed an act of sweetness and later regretted it. Sometimes I think that my reactions are more reflexive than anything, and I don't put ample thought into my actions. I veer between the ideals of reason and honesty of feeling and I often can't decide which is right. But there probably are no right answers, only easy ( Read more... ) -
Prosody 101
One good thing that came out of SAT 2 today: this beautiful poem from the literature subject test by Linda Pastan
( and the tension I felt between the expected and the actual ) -
I only know that summer sang in me
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain ( Read more... ) -
Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose our hearts shall fail us
Did NAPFA 5 items with my lovely dance batchmates today, and we're all proud of how fit everyone is (all golds so far) and simultaneously looking forward to/dreading the 2.4 run tomorrow morning bright and early at 7am, because the incessant rain today made it pretty impossible to run. Gonna make my last NAPFA year A-A-A-A-A-A yes I can do this!
( and here's some beauty for this february thursday ) -
The World
Love built a stately house; where Fortune came,
And spinning phansies, she was heard to say,
That her fine cobwebs did support the frame,
Whereas they were supported by the same:
But Wisdome quickly swept them all away.
Then Pleasure came, who, liking not the fashion,
Began to make Balcones, Terraces,
Till she had weakned all by alteration:
But rev’rend ( Read more... ) -
leading a horse to water
Do you ever feel like you sometimes let little bits of yourself out to the strangest of people? Minute details about your life, your emotions, your thoughts and your secrets; you let loose little anecdotes, snippets of bigger pictures, skim the surface of the ocean which is your mind and your heart, almost like you're challenging someone to play ( Read more... )
