February 2012
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Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful...
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“You are always eighteen or married
or both, carrying inside you
a surgeon or a...”
– “On Being Asked Who The You Is In My Poems,” Paul Guest (via clavicola)
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via kittykatkate)
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“Sometimes words are not enough.*”
– Lemony Snicket (via breadymercury)
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January 2012
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"Oh God, Fuck Me" by Ruth L. Schwartz
Fuck me, oh God, with ordinary things, the things you love best in this world–– like trees in spring, exposing themselves, flashing leaf-buds so firm and swollen I want to take them into my mouth. Speaking of trees, fuck me with birds, say, and enormous raucous crow, proud as a man with his hand down his pants, and then a sparrow, intimately brown, discreet and cautious as a concubine. Fuck me...
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“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony;...”
– Simon Van Booy
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What I Never Told You About the Abortion by Alison...
That it hurt, despite the anesthetic, which they administered with a long needle, shot straight into the womb. That they hit the vagus nerve the first time and I fell down when I tried to stand. That after the second shot my legs snapped shut— instinctively as any wild mother protecting chick, kit, cub. That I held the hand of a young Hispanic nurse and wept when she said, “You know,...
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███ ██ █ ████ everything ███ █████ is █████ ████...
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“…I still will stay with thee;
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart...”
– Romeo and Juliet (Act V Scene III)
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sirarthurconandoilies:
The Affair of the Black Armbands
dee-light:
The public responded with a massive uproar that amazed everybody, especially Doyle. Twenty thousand people canceled their subscriptions to the Strand. Hate mail arrived at the magazine’s editorial offices by the sackload. Thousands of people wrote Doyle directly, begging him to reverse Holmes’s death. Many people took to...
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captainsway:
redwrenwalking replied to your post: redwrenwalking replied to your post:…
oh yes, i totally want mary on the show. as long as moffat doesn’t have anything to do with her, i’m sure i would be very pleased.
SHE COULD BE THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY STICKS AROUND.
Loves the bromance and the love between Sherlock and John, and loves John for who he is and allows him to go on adventures, but...
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there needs to be more realistic/involved/loved women in the next Sherlock series
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Practicing by Marie Howe
I want to write a love poem for the girls I kissed in seventh grade, a song for what we did on the floor in the basement
of somebody’s parents’ house, a hymn for what we didn’t say but thought: That feels good or I like that, when we learned how to open each other’s mouths
how to move our tongues to make somebody moan. We called it practicing, and one was the boy, and we paired off—maybe six or...
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Virginitiphobia by Patrick Ryan Frank
Virginitiphobia — The fear of rape. They took her out to the field in a new black truck that smelled like apples and the denim of a young man’s thigh. They turned the engine off but left the radio on, the headlights lighting the woods to the west, toward the mountains, then to California. They laid her down and tied her hands over her head with field-grass. She could...
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“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or...”
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via madaeli26)
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"I say if Sherlock really dies we all have a mass...
rawsie:
I just read this and I say it’s a brilliant idea and we gotta get it out there! THIS IDEA IS AMAZING!
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