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Posts tagged lit.
we have entered
the realm of the absurd. you are taking the dog.
we’ll call this a breakup poem. we’ll call this the
quiet disintegration of a longer ride.
what we once called home.
the house gets emptier and emptier.
in the end you’re not here.
You must make this mistake once—
pour boiling liquid into a blender, then pulse it.
Watch the steam blow the lid straight off.
When you see your burned hands, you’ll scream.
Other mistakes you repeat, finding yourself
in a familiar place, but worn out, like pigeons
circling a roof, the flock growing bigger,
then smaller. It will be this way with love.
Your neighbor plays something on the accordion,
starting and stopping before seeing it through,
but it’s not what you expected. It’s not even
about getting it right. You think it’s about
protecting yourself, and eventually you will—
not by learning how to love, but how to do so less often.
Kellam Ayres, Practice
and I don’t mean simply that she’ll sit on top and ask for
more than you think you can give, although she’ll do that.
And you will thrust harder and go longer with her than any
somebody should: when you have to work in the morning,
when the neighbors might wonder, when wives and
husbands are waiting for wayward spouses to come home.
Sweating this much for this many days in a row can’t be
healthy, you will think, and you will ask, where is a glass
of unsalted water when I need it? Where is the person I
used to be, and why is the mirror shaking when the piggy
bank is standing still on the dresser? If this isn’t an
earthquake then what kind of freak beauty is it, exactly?
And though you will be more thirsty than Noah was before
the flood, you’ll find you’ve forgotten things you once
needed: how to hold on, for example, and how to swallow.
Elaina M. Ellis, Change Is a Demanding Lover
When you have left me
the sky drains of color
like the skin
of a tightening fist.
The sun commences
its gold prowl
batting at tinsel streamers
on the electric fan.
Crouching I hide
in the coolness I stole
from the brass rods
of your bed.
Monica Youn, Ignatz Oasis, via (rabbit-light)
The night does not wish to come
so that you cannot come
and I cannot go.
But I will go,
though a scorpion sun should eat my temple.
But you will come
with your tongue burned by the salt rain.
The day does not wish to come
so that you cannot come
and I cannot go.
But I will go
yielding to the toads my chewed carnation.
But you will come
through the muddy sewers of darkness.
Neither night nor day wishes to come
so that I may die for you
and you die for me.
Federico García Lorca, Gacela of Desperate Love, trans. W. S. Merwin
(via yesyes)
Ferlinghetti.
(via flourhoneyandmilk)
A girl needs a gun these days on account
of all the resonant memories.
We don’t have a past so much
as a bunch of electricity and liquor, power
never put to good use.
Jeffrey McDaniel, excerpt from The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy (via theoryoflostthings)
