parachute dreams

vaincre:

I am lazy, the laziest
girl in the world. I sleep during
the day when I want to, ‘til
my face is creased and swollen,
‘til my lips are dry and hot. I
eat as I please: cookies and milk
after lunch, butter and sour cream
on my baked potato, foods that
slothful people eat, that turn
yellow and opaque beneath the skin.
Sometimes come dinnertime Sunday
I am still in my nightgown, the one
with the lace trim listing because
I have not mended it. Many days
I do not exercise, only
consider it, then rub my curdy
belly and lie down. Even
my poems are lazy. I use
syllabics instead of iambs,
prefer slant to the gong of full rhyme,
write briefly while others go
for pages. And yesterday,
for example, I did not work at all!
I got in my car and I drove
to factory outlet stores, purchased
stockings and panties and socks
with my father’s money.

To think, in childhood I missed only
one day of school per year. I went
to ballet class four days a week
at four-forty-five and on
Saturdays, beginning always
with plie, ending with curtsy.
To think, I knew only industry,
the industry of my race
and of immigrants, the radio
tuned always to the station
that said, Line up your summer
job months in advance. Work hard
and do not shame your family,
who worked hard to give you what you have.
There is no sin but sloth. Burn
to a wick and keep moving.

I avoided sleep for years,
up at night replaying
evening news stories about
nearby jailbreaks, fat people
who ate fried chicken and woke up
dead. In sleep I am looking
for poems in the shape of open
V’s of birds flying in formation,
or open arms saying, I forgive you, all.

— Elizabeth Alexander

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:22:47 +0530

thentherewasyou:

unicornsforsale:hello-therelove:dashedlines:braidsbraidsbraids. (via raychel sonveeco.)

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:18:00 +0530

raincomesdown:

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:16:16 +0530

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:15:10 +0530

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utano: breathsoftruth: thingstolike: lisaness: (via perfecting-failure)

She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:14:47 +0530

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"I want to live in a country where pop media is a form of self-expression and not of mind control. I..."

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:56:39 +0530

“I want to live in a country where pop media is a form of self-expression and not of mind control. I want to live in a country where farmers are valued more than lawyers. I want to live in a country where more money is spent on education than on war. I want to live in a country where the public health is not determined by profit margins. I want to live in a country where the bicycle industry is more heavily subsidized than the auto industry.”

- Keri Smith (via bringmethathorizon)

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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:53:15 +0530

raincomesdown:

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skysignal: devincastro: “When I was a kid I..” is a wonderful...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:00:20 +0530

skysignal:

devincastro:

“When I was a kid I..” is a wonderful little Flickr set of people wearing these tags used as conversation starters for social events. To view the rest of the answers, click here.

Here’s mine: When I was a kid I.. waited for a Hogwarts acceptance letter. (Still am..)

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:13:43 +0530

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avajean: (via wrists)

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:05:25 +0530

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:01:37 +0530

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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:22:54 +0530

bringmethathorizon:

thedailywhat:

Umbrella Design Concept of the Day: “Rain Brush Umbrella” by Liu Hsiang-Ling.

Color-changing umbrella with a silicon-based paintbrush tip, perfect for dipping into a puddle and tagging a wall with ephemeral graffiti or kicking off an impromptu game of sidewalk tic-tac-toe while waiting for the bus.

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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:21:38 +0530

bringmethathorizon:

sweethomestyle: pinklovesbrown

My problem is

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:18:15 +0530

bringmethathorizon:

frogsandcrowns:

I fall in love with the little picture stories in my head and not the actual people or places themselves.

mine too.