December 2010
38 posts
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You Begin by Margaret Atwood
You begin this way:
this is your hand,
this is your eye,
that is a fish, blue and flat
on the paper, almost
the shape of an eye.
This is your mouth, this is an O
or a moon, whichever
you like. This is yellow.
Outside the window
is the rain, green
because it is summer, and beyond that
the trees and then the world,
which is round and has only
the colors of these nine crayons.
This is the...
WatchDuet (by Robin Cantrell)
Me In Honey - R.E.M.
I sat there looking ugly...
The Abortion by Anne Sexton
Somebody who should have been born is gone. Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from its knot, I changed my shoes, and then drove south. Up past the Blue Mountains, where Pennsylvania humps on endlessly, wearing, like a crayoned cat, its green hair, its roads sunken in like a gray washboard; where, in truth, the ground cracks evilly, a dark socket from which the coal...
Poem in praise of menstruation - Lucille Clifton
if there is a river more beautiful than this bright as the blood red edge of the moon if there is a river more faithful than this returning each month to the same delta if there is a river braver than this coming and coming in a surge of passion, of pain if there is a river more ancient than this daughter of eve mother of cain and of abel if there is in the universe such a river...
WatchMenstruation Machine - Takashi’s Take (by Sputniko!)
vagina vagina vagina
okay, hear me out here; i need some help.
i read a poem once. i think it was in an anthology of women’s poetry or quite possibly something related to sex workers or gender studies…you know how us feminist bitches love that shit. i can’t recall the title or the author…of course. i’ll try to hum a few bars here. it may have been titled, “Response to a...
Anonymous asked: I love that you named your tumblr/twitter after that To Kill a Mockingbird quote.
Anonymous asked: Know any good male roll models?
And how patient are you with someone who:
Doesn't have one and never did,
Is just waking up from a life of confusion and pain,
And is trying to rebuild himself from scratch...
And how patient are you with someone who:
Doesn't have one and never did,
Is just waking up from a life of confusion and pain,
And is trying to rebuild himself from scratch...
Anonymous asked: Do you prefer black men?
Anonymous asked: How old are you?
Anonymous asked: why are you such a bitch?
heytherefancyface asked: PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! I would send you a check that will cover postage and the polish!
Anonymous asked: Did you know I miss you? I miss you.
Anonymous asked: Is Zack your favorite?
