by unofficial
traffic heading my way
somewhere in Bergerac with Antoni
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…unhinged…deranged…manic…unbalanced…bonkers…loopy…insane…bananas…mad…touched…mental…crazed…berserk…lunatic…batty…disturbed…
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…this positively…thoughtful…day…of yet…another week…
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…sitting…thoughtfully.…transiting…mental illnesses…
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…my dark hole…my empty hole…my holy hole
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…amen…
~by unofficial
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I made it out by the skin of my griefs.
~Ocean Vuong
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happy my mother said I could be anything I wanted but I chose to live monday
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— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'
[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight
& all my friends are three years away.
My mother said I could be anything
I wanted — but I chose to live.]
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Ocean Vuong, from “Reasons for Staying.” [ID in alt text]
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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
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"Failing Better: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong" interviewed by Viet Thanh Nguyen for LA Review of Books (2019) [ID'd]
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thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong
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Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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tenderness is in the hands
― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)
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"Gardening with the Son I Will Never Have", Ocean Vuong, Burnings
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