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NotesIn a well-made book…no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.
―Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
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Notes"And then I read this: ‘… we consider sexuality to be an essence, an unchanging core identity, and the way that lesbian and gay communities have adopted this view … has led to a great deal of lesbian and gay biphobia.’ That’s a quote by Amanda Udis-Kessler from her contribution to the book, a piece called ‘Present tense: Biphobia as a crisis of meaning.’ It makes me think of that thing we do when we say ‘I’m a gold-star lesbian woman/gay guy,’ proud to have never been corrupted by the ickyness of heterosexuality. It gives us an identity as separate, forming a community of oppressed people that can band together against those hateful straights. If our same-sex attraction is intrinsic to who we are, then we can’t be attacked or blamed for it, and we have to come together to defend it. But if sexuality is fluid and flexible, if people can be bisexual, then does that call into question the essential nature of being queer? Bisexuality might scare gay and lesbian people because it can’t be neatly wrapped up in a box."Daniel Vivacqua, “Biphobia: The Gay Side” (via damnunderground)
Those last two sentences are what I’ve been thinking about lately. My identity can’t be wrapped up in a box on so many levels.
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Notes Sharing Poetry: Anne Sexton, "Young"A thousand doors ago
when I was a lonely kid
in a big house with four
garages and it was summer
as long as I could remember,
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Notes"A nasty surprise in a sandwich,
A drawing-pin caught in your sock,
The limpest of shakes from a hand which
You’d thought would be firm as a rock,A serious mistake in a nightie,
A grave disappointment all round
Is all that you’ll get from th’Almighty,
Is all that you’ll get underground.Oh he said: ‘If you lay off the crumpet
I’ll see you alright in the end.
Just hang on until the last trumpet.
Have faith in me, chum-I’m your friend.’But if you remind him, he’ll tell you:
‘I’m sorry, I must have been pissed-
Though your name rings a sort of a bell. You
Should have guessed that I do not exist.‘I didn’t exist at Creation,
I didn’t exist at the Flood,
And I won’t be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud-‘Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I’m a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms.‘You’re a nasty surprise in a sandwich.
You’re a drawing-pin caught in my sock.
You’re the limpest of shakes from a hand which
I’d have thought would be firm as a rock,‘You’re a serious mistake in a nightie,
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You’re a grave disappointment all round-
That’s all you are, ’ says th’Almighty,
‘And that’s all that you’ll be underground.’“God, a Poem,” James Fenton (via damnunderground)
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Notes"the city is more cruel than the walls
and finally the walls are all we have
and
almost nothing is
far better than
nothing at
all."Charles Bukowski, besieged (via paranoos)
(via henrycharlesbukowski)
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NotesGale Antokal, photographs from We Are So Lightly Here
(Source: growing-orbits)
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Notes Sharing Poetry: David Whyte, "The House of Belonging"I awoke
this morning
in the gold light
turning this way
and that
thinking for
a moment
it was one
day
like any other.
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the veil had gone
from my
darkened heart
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An organ grinder leading a trained fox and a dog. Ivan Turgenev’s drawing in his sketchbook, 1834
(via russkayaliteratura)
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Notes"There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational — or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t."Lemony Snicket (via 4mbivalent)
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this is my sexuality
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Bradley Harrison’s “Gray,” the last in a series of erasures of his own poem “Her Problem of Gravity” (2012). Read them all over at The Offending...
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An Open Letter to My Critics Within the Fat Acceptance Movement.
To my regular followers: I realise...
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i think you could break my heart
i barely know you
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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
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What is there to be or do?
What’s become of me or you?
Are we kind or are we true?
Sitting two...
