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finally getting to Jackie Wang’s book Carceral Capitalism

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“‘Leavings’ are melancholy doubled. First, leavings are poignant actions: departures, abandonments, desertions. And second, leavings are those things which are left, the remnants of something previously whole: detritus, residue. Each has their own sense of desolation, and in some cases both the action and the remainder are intertwined in a narrative of displacement. This is implied in the residue–whether it be a note, a trace, an object now lost– … Ruptures and cleavings are the subplots of leavings. The departure of things, of wholes, of lives, of loves, leaves the pain of residual stains, of that which remains. The melancholy tracing of things inhere in dust, and in sediments. Like the 'residues of the day’ which, according to Freud, infuse our dreams, leavings are fragmentary and incomplete. Yet within these debris inhere melancholic imaginings, or as Joseph Cornell wrote of the 'sweepings’ that he gathered up from his studio floor, they contain those things that fly under the radar, 'the rich crosscurrents, ramifications, etc., that go into the boxes but which are not apparent in the final result.’”

— Jacky Bowring, from Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape (Routledge, 2017)

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Lorraine O’Grady, The Clearing (right detail)

Lorraine O’Grady, Dreaming Dracula (left panel of Dracula and the Artist)

Those photographs are taken from the project Body Is The Ground of My Experience by Lorraine O’Grady.

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TAGVVERK  “something about courtney garvin” and excerpt from “delete.”

The Capilano Review excerpt from five poems [full issue]

The Journal Petra excerpt from “delete.”

NOO Journal “bad luck 2 talk” mini-chapbook

The Offing “Swan Sludge.”

DREGINALD “&,” “Shot Screen,” “Overdub,” “Anti Pastoral.”

Anomaly “untitled” and “rest in peace sound.”

Glass Press Queer Drive “something about sean d. henry-smith" and excerpt from “delete.”

Academy of American Poets “Notes on a Hunger Artist.”

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hope you are ok

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some of my fav usage of color in a film

Suspiria | Dario Argento | 1977

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You haven’t lost who you are, you’re just different now. and that’s okay

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it seems like it doesn’t faze me

but it does

it always does

people just don’t realize how well I can act

you get this good when you’ve been doing it most of your life

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finished “The Wake” by Scott Snyder & Sean Murphy

I haven’t read a comic/graphic novel in a while. Now I want more.

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the funeral for the monkey .

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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FINALLY watched this tonight. Angela Basset’s character makes the movie of course.

Angela Bassett in Strange Days (1995) Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

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I’ve sometimes forgotten.

part one:

I’ve been in the Atlantic

I’ve been in the pacific

I’ve been 4 rivers

I’ve been in 7 lakes

I’ve rode a bike along rivers and oceans

I’ve loved benches I sat on alone.

I’ve climbed hills

I’ve climbed mountains

I’ve climbed trees over water

I’ve swam in the dark

I’ve been taken by currents.

I’ve cried in the water.

I’ve been thrown against rocks.

I’ve ran through flowers.

I’ve been stung by hornets.

I’ve pissed on worms

I’ve crawled through sand.

I’ve washed the mess of blood in the ocean.

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I got this I got this

yeah

I got this

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well damn

“Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before” (Alice Walker).

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Jasmine FUCKING Gibson buy her book Don’t Let Them See Me Like This from Nightboat Books my friend is so talented

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“i’m covered in cum because of you”