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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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i can't get over john and paul using the other's signature for their own. the lennon mccartney thing from the very beginning was some sort of transcendental psychic pseudo blood-bond they made where every word one of them wrote equally belonged to the other. most artists strive to gain singular recognition but these two were more than willing to merge together into one creative superbeing. the attached signatures make that so literal that if this was shown in a movie or book it would seem on the nose. like okay. meld together your personal signifiers. be bound for eternity. whatever. i don't care.

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[pre requisite] It’s the last day of the year. I’ve got an exam tomorrow and I need to study. My dorm room is sort of a mess, I still haven’t put everything back in its place. I need to finish up some journaling for the year but I can’t seem to find the time. I’ve taken most apps off my phone because I’ve spent the last 5 months essentially swallowed by my phone, but now I feel restless without all that dopamine hit. My convenience crush won’t go away and I’m desperately trying not to bring him into the new year. I’ve been trying but I still find him on my mind, he’s not even all that (truly) but I don’t know maybe it just felt good to be wanted. I feel like I’ve changed since coming to college, which I swore wouldn’t happen, and I’m not entirely sure how I’ve changed but I think I have and I don’t think in a good way. I haven’t written poetry or any of that artsy stuff I loved to do and was excited to get back to in college. I’m in this weird loop of self sabotage and making myself feel like shit, I wish I didn’t feel so suffocated by myself. yeah that’s it. I suffocate myself.

[interlude] I want the new year to look better. I want to be that girl that 5 year old me would be so proud of. I want to do all the things I’ve wanted to do. Let this year be full of new and exciting pursuits (please.god.please) I don’t know how much of what I want will get done today, but I suppose I’m here to tell future me that it’s okay if it doesn’t. Maybe the studying will take a lot of time, maybe your dorm room will have to wait until tomorrow and that’s okay. It’s alright to bring some of today’s chores to tomorrow. You’ve always held yourself hostage to all your compulsive chores and anxiety inducing structures. Let go a little for the new year. Give yourself room to breathe and just maybe you’ll thrive love. You’ll change in this year and that’s okay, you’re figuring out all this for the first time too. Find time to do the things you love. I promise it’ll feel good. You’ll be okay, tomorrow’s just another day, today doesn’t have to look a specific way, just be.

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So endearing when people are like “I know I’m late getting into the Beatles but” baby we’re all late. None of us were there

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John 😭

That's my favorite...

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you could say the same thing about me.

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“It is probably fair to say that [John’s] personal and creative attachment to the other Beatles had been replaced by his totally uncompromising relationship with Yoko. She was by then his main artistic collaborator, effectively cuckolding Paul. Indeed, the Two Virgins LP (released November 1968), with its notorious nude portrait of the two of them on the cover, was nothing if not a clear indication of John’s desire to work with her and to embrace more avant-garde forms of self-expression.”

- Denis O’Dell, At the Apple’s Core: The Beatles from the Inside

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ohhhh judas betrayed jesus with a kiss. ok i’ll do u one better. john lennon and paul mccartney morphed into one horrible tragic being that transformed western culture as we know it. paul has just been nominated for a grammy for a song that john wrote before he was murdered over forty years ago. john wanted a divorce and paul wanted to kill himself. they grew up together. they turned into each other. they weren’t gay they were something much much worse and whatever it was still lives and breathes in practically every song you’ve ever listened to. also they masturbated in the same room once or twice

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What a pair

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Ringo: I'd just like to say thanks to all the fans, you know. 'Cause it's the fans that make you— John is choking me 🙄...

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My happy place is that period of time that I got into the Beatles, every morning songs played as I learnt the words, appreciated the bass line or whistled at the guitar riffs, my mind just in awe as I moved from one album to the next, their incredibly gifted range flooring me, afternoons spent watching their interviews and movies and nights spent on those little corners of the internet that seem stuck in 2010, about anything and everything I could read about them, from silly sweet stories to really beautiful and profound pieces on their music.

I hope I never forget the light and the music, I hope those days and the way I felt, the joy, the awe, the love, all so innocently inspired by their music and their talent- I hope I never forget that.

I hope no matter how many years go by, I’ll remember how the air was kinder and time moved slower in that little golden slumber of mine. Oh to be discovering Beatles music, what a joy.

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no I'm sorry....I can't be normal about the beatles and I especially can't be normal about John and Paul's relationship bc what do you mean their partnership ( very much a love story ) literally altered the course of musical history.... the beatles being one of the biggest bands in the entire world is just crazy because like. do people even know that at the center of it all is a love story. do they know

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Paul at the premiere of film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, 6th July, 1964.

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☆ dreamy

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paul going through this whole melodramatic arc while ringo literally doesn't care

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I like this one of John sort of screwing up his eyes, he’s obviously got trying to knock at soap, he’s washing his face, trying to not have soap in his eyes. But again, you know, that’s the kind of thing he’d let me take that picture. Because it’s just me. He knew… Well, he thought it was never gonna get publicised. Sorry, John. But no, you had that access and that intimacy, just because you lived on top of each other, you know. So it was really nice looking back at the photos, and reminded me of those days.

(Paul McCartney, June 2023, interview with Martha Kearney, BBC Radio 4's Today programme)

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This specific genre of photos of them