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Look my country did something nice

First transgender mayor elected in central India

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"The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain."

Walt Whitman, from preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)

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R.I.P. Maya Angelou

"I tend to be cynical about a lot of things, but Maya Angelou is somebody that no matter how much I pick her apart, she still has integrity. She was a victim of incest and rape, and she worked as a stripper. And now she’s a literary icon and Nobel Laureate. It goes to show that life is cumulative, and you can’t devalue any type of experience."

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I hate to explain myself

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URL Change

Hello, 9 followers. Thank you for following me. Really. So, NaPoWriMo is over, and it was so much fun. And I’d like to continue this blog and keep writing. So a URL change is in order. My old one was forpoetrythismonth. My new URL is howlsrestrained (Whitman fan, anyone?)

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Bukowski

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afternoons my safe haven away from the gentle but firm pull of stern eyes and people projecting their mess on me give me time to think give me my own pace let lost loves resurface and let my fingers tingle with word itch let every idea swim around and around and give my contorted expression a vent this may be outside you but look in once I am not without scruples or fears don't play on them my stagnant pool of half worked actions and build ups to unnecessary limitations are already my recurring demons let them slip away -Tanvi 

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Let me harvest this vile potency that you planted; I will try to turn it into your own vitality. No, I do not want to alter-- I am merely a stain on your expensive carpet.  You can remove me. You can buy a new carpet. I live and breathe your turbulence and  I want to make a noise But you overpower me. Your bones are shallow and your mind is serpentine; You mass of hysteria, Let me break through. -Tanvi

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marinate your sorrow in your goblin tears and you have a turnaround fanatsy choke on an apology and you have a … -Tanvi

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Knowledge

Levitating, inviting Curiosity -- Let's just keep searching for answers,  for meaning. Skin curled up and sweat glistening; You are beautiful;  Eyes adjusting… Why are you turning your back? I was just about to see distinct features  Stop being a blur Let me Focus dammit!  I guess you want me to walk, and crouch, and climb. I will.

Now, I know. -Tanvi

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Corners are changing Goals are being met What are we doing

Systematic purgatory this stale unchanging life

But let’s just plod on we can’t be caught thinking like this

-Tanvi

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to me you are a fragment. can't even remember your face. you can become alive and be complex. i will change my entire being in the meantime. you can't even remember my face. -Tanvi

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I have nothing to say today Except to tell you It is alright to be quiet sometimes-- You can step away from the talkers the talkers the talkers, Regurgitating their same old bullshit, And be subject to your own voice; it has been silenced for too long. Wall yourself in for the day. And let you be your only companion.

-Tanvi

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I will write you a eulogy  For when your hyperventilating being is not my enemy. Otherwise I might just forget-- -Tanvi

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I decide to weigh solid by solid-- wherever you are and whenever you decide, two minds are two but you will have a part. Let us decide.

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The World vs. One of It

My dreams are caught and fallen fingers type away trying to look into your essence when they want to smear paint on your shattered and impatient face You catastrophe you surgical removal of insight and horror desensitize me my own brother in tragedy and soulless anatomy I do not understand you when will a glimpse teach me Let me be a Let me be two Why not let me within and without and underneath -Tanvi