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Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-1880) Francesca von Rimini, 1864 Schack Collection, Munich

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─ Hisham Siddiqi

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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

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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

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Night and Her Daughter Sleep (1902)

— by Mary L. Macomber

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Frédéric Chopin, from a letter written in May 1849, featured in Chopin's Letters

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— prtygal777

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Albert Camus, from "Personal Writings," originally published in 2020

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One line on a white stick,

Isn’t that what you wanted?

Not pregnant, congrats,

and everybody laughs,

One line on a white stick,

Isn’t that what you wanted?

I don’t want to hold a babe,

Not yet, not yet, not yet,

One line on a white stick,

Isn’t that what you wanted?

It is, it is, i swear it is,

I don’t know why I’m changing,

One line on a white stick,

Isn’t that what you wanted?

Why does it feel so heavy,

Why doesn’t it feel like freedom?

One line on a white stick,

Isn’t that what you wanted?

I swear I didn’t know I wanted,

I didn’t plan or work for this,

One line on a white stick,

Isn’t that what you wanted?

I don’t know any more.

Maybe two lines would work.

- jessica

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he isn’t watching the band,

he’s only looking at me,

and when i glance up i’m self conscious,

if only for a heartbeat

but i think i might love the feeling.

captured in hungry eyes

under neon lights,

i’m free and i’m falling,

he’d catch me,

i know it without asking

from the way i catch him watching.

- jessica

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Franz Kafka, 1912