24 yrs old
Female
A collection of words, images, and sounds I like.
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“Sometimes I write terrible fortunes for imaginary cookies: Someone at this table knows your secret. I write them on tiny pieces of paper that I imagine would fit in the innards of the cookie’s crescent: The affair you are contemplating will ruin your life. Or something like: Your happiest days happened a long time ago …”
—Denise Duhamel, from “Insomnio” in The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999)
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I Don’t Miss It
BY TRACY K. SMITHBut sometimes I forget where I am,
Imagine myself inside that life again.
Recalcitrant mornings. Sun perhaps,
Or more likely colorless light
Filtering its way through shapeless cloud.
And when I begin to believe I haven’t left,
The rest comes back. Our couch. My smoke
Climbing the walls while the hours fall.
Straining against the noise of traffic, music,
Anything alive, to catch your key in the door.
And that scamper of feeling in my chest,
As if the day, the night, wherever it is
I am by then, has been only a whir
Of something other than waiting.
We hear so much about what love feels like.
Right now, today, with the rain outside,
And leaves that want as much as I do to believe
In May, in seasons that come when called,
It’s impossible not to want
To walk into the next room and let you
Run your hands down the sides of my legs,
Knowing perfectly well what they know. -
MARK STRAND
Nothing will tell you
where you are.
Each moment is a place
you’ve never been.You can walk
believing you cast
a light around you.
But how will you know?The present is always dark.
—Poetry, June 1970
Mark Strand was born on April 11, 1934.
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"Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. In the modern state there are very few sites where this is possible. The only others that come readily to my mind require belief in an omnipotent creator as a condition for membership. It would seem the most obvious thing in the world to say that the reason why the market is not an efficient solution to libraries is because the market has no use for a library. But it seems we need, right now, to keep re-stating the obvious. There aren’t many institutions left that fit so precisely Keynes’ definition of things that no one else but the state is willing to take on. Nor can the experience of library life be recreated online. It’s not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal."
Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books (via fotzepolitic)
(Source: thebronzemedal, via thousand)
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