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Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Mohammad Shaheen), Like a Hand Tattoo in an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet

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time moving by too fast for you? sit down and make yourself write a story. time will crawl by reaaaaaal slow then. you'll live forever. you'll be immortal. an immortal, timeless god stuck in the first minute you sat down to try and write a sentence. no words will be written but you'll live lifetimes in those endless lines of a snail's shell, twisting around and around until you don't know where one started or one began. you'll be on a loop. forever. grasping for words but coming up with absolutely nothing as that excruciating minute never ends. falling in space. timelessly, endlessly. forever. yes i'm having a breakdown trying to write this stupid book why do you ask

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i hate when a poem is good. Fuck you for saying that for real

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— Charles Bukowski, from “Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.”

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past lovers

two souls sharing similar eyes

loving as if this will be their last

forever connected

from land and sea

between worlds

in each new life

linked with the ribbon of lovers past

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how i see my partner

how they see me <3