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“you’re quiet” yes I’m trying to gauge how weird I can be in this new social situation

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fuck dating apps i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (you’re walking your bike up the last hill into town wearing your school uniform. i’m hanging out the passenger side window of my best friend’s car. your hands are beautiful. we know nothing about each other. you disappear in the rear view mirror. i close my eyes and send up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to god. i say please. i have never said please in my life)

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please do not engage i am better as a concept

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James Baldwin at his typewriter

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wanted all my horses in one basket, as it were

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LOVE HAS GONE SOLAR (2024)

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i want to live in the ghibli world sooo bad like you guys don’t even know. i would risk it ALL

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you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

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moths are gothic butterflies <3

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They Do Not Exist (1974) by Mustafa Abu Ali (watch)

from PalestineCinema.com:

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"

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if u dont mind id love to know more of ur fav poems :-) trying to get into reading more poetry

missing persons by sam sax

ode to prince by hanif abdurraqib

social skills training by solmaz sharif

men by maya angelou

DL N8 4 3SOME by jake skeets

having a coke with you by frank o'hara

jubilate homo by ellen bass

carpet bomb by kenyatta rogers

border patrol agent by eduardo c corral

heart condition by jericho brown

tell me something good by ocean vuong

letter to S, hospital by emily skaja

we lived happily during the war by ilya kaminsky

long division by matthew dickman

the american security against foreign enemies act by lucie brock-broido

you will never get death out of a system by dana levin

letter to chi by franny choi

14 lines from love letters or suicide notes by doc luben

said the confederate flag to the american flag by RJ walker

worms by shyla hardwick

blood makes the blade holy by evan knoll

the 17 year old & the gay bar by danez smith

mountain dew commercial disguised as a love poem by matthew olzmann

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Nile River cruise,

Egypt

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feeling normal about this hanif abdurraqib poem

[Image ID:

THE AUTHOR WRITES THE FIRST DRAFT OF HIS WEDDING VOWS

(An erasure of Virginia Woolf’s suicide letter to her husband, Leonard)

Dearest,

I feel certain I am going mad again.

we will go through terrible times. And recover. I begin to hear your voice, and can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems

will give me the greatest possible happiness.

I don’t think two people could have been happier with this disease. I know

that without you I can’t properly feel.

What I want to say is You have

saved me.

Everything has gone from me

but the certainty of your goodness.

/end ID]

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"Various anuran amphibians, not all to one scale." The life of vertebrates. 1962.

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