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Aubade // Philip Larkin

lungsandsyrup wrote in theysaid Sep 17, 2013 04:08

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and ( Read more... )

philip larkin

A Sonnet of Invented Memories // Miles Walser

lungsandsyrup wrote in theysaid Sep 17, 2013 04:06

1.

I told you that I was a roadway of potholes, not safe to cross. You said nothing, showed up in my driveway wearing roller-skates.

2.

The first time I asked you on a date, after you hung up, I held the air between our phones against my ear and whispered, “You will fall in love with me. Then, just months later, you will fall out. I will pretend the ( Read more... )

Fail // Robert Lunday

iatrogenicmyth wrote in theysaid Sep 16, 2013 18:25

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett, "Worstward Ho"I want a tattoo eraser and make it painless ( Read more... )

adam thinking | lucille clifton

maryferguson92 wrote in theysaid Sep 16, 2013 02:46

she
stolen from my bone
is it any wonder
i hunger to tunnel back
inside desperate
to reconnect the rib and clay
and to be whole again

some need is in me
struggling to roar through my
mouth into a name
this creation is so fierce
i would rather have been born

lucille clifton