Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk (translated by C. J. Hogarth)
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What We Want
by Linda Pastan
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names --
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don’t remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there
even in full sun.
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Nothing doing, Giorgos Galanopoulos
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“A relationship is about inventing your own language. You’ve got the jokes, you’ve got the songs, you have this anecdote that’s going to make you laugh three years later. It’s this language that you build. That’s what you mourn for when you’re losing someone you love. This language you’re not going to speak with anybody else.”
— Céline Sciamma
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Habits
by Nikki Giovanni
i haven’t written a poem in so long
i may have forgotten how
unless writing a poem
is like riding a bike
or swimming upstream
or loving you
it may be a habit that once acquired
is never lost
but you say i’m foolish
of course you love me
but being loved of course
is not the same as being loved because
or being loved despite
or being loved
if you love me why
do i feel so lonely
and why do i always wake up alone
and why am i practicing
not having you to love
i never loved you that way
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ill keep writing about surviving because i don't know what else there is
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Nags Head, Joel Sternfeld
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There are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing, Chuck Patch
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— The Death of the Hired Man, Robert Frost
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Naomi Shihab Nye, “Love Letter, Hate Letter.” Red Suitcase
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screenshots that make me cry
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Teaching the Dog Not to Nip, Jim Moore (2005)
[text ID:
Do you think it's easy,
not biting
the one you love?
Try loving someone so much
your mouth is only at home
in the place where your teeth
meet the flesh
of your beloved. Try
not tasting the flesh,
not taking in your mouth
the beloved, not
going all the way.]
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Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan
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