February 2011
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One Day at a Time
World Poem: Concentrate in being a part of this world until you forget who you are.
Pear and Orange: Concentrate in being a part of someone until you can disappear into them. Do this until you become interchangeable.
Unit A and B: Begin by holding hands (someone else’s). Hold on until there is steam coming from your palms.
Facebook: Log on and wait until someone you want to talk to is...
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Persimmons
BY LI-YOUNG LEE
In sixth grade Mrs. Walker slapped the back of my head and made me stand in the corner for not knowing the difference between persimmon and precision. How to choose persimmons. This is precision. Ripe ones are soft and brown-spotted. Sniff the bottoms. The sweet one will be fragrant. How to eat: put the knife away, lay down newspaper. Peel the skin tenderly, not to...
January 2011
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When you lose something you cannot replace.
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[The golf links lie so near the mill]
The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.
-Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, 1914
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A Boring Confession
When class is about to start, I sometimes take out my planner and get excited about crossing the day (sometimes I skip out on this for a week so I can cross out more than one). This is the same feeling I get when preparing a to-do list, usually around the time class ends.
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Nancy Sinatra- How Does that Grab You,...
Santa Barbara's New Homeless Strategy →
The most futile, money wasting attempt at bettering the lives of fellow Americans I’ve heard today.
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Hibernating until summer.
Sometimes, days like these, wishing to carry cardboard boxes of time and send them to the burner. Watch them melt over winter, into spring then summer. Because all it is is just sitting on a dock waiting for the sun to set, for the days to fall over until today, tomorrow’s month and month…
How to measure a trip:
Good: if you took pictures.
Bad: if you took naps.
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Drunk dialing mistakes in hour increments
Words only slur when drinking from bottles. Clumsy fingers on buttons, dialing to your mother who’s already dead. The kitties turn the lights off in their rooms, hoping you’d just stop. But you never stop. The phone line is busy again. Next time, maybe daughter far away, maybe sponsored father who forgot about you in Barcelona. Sometime soon you’ll visit. When you have enough...
identity-inspiration-deactivate asked: You are amazing :)
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Managing anorexia with a size zero pill hoax →
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“WHEN SHIT BRINGS YOU DOWN, JUST SAY ‘FUCK IT’, AND EAT YOURSELF SOME...”
– David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
AMEN.
(via bbook)
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I America
On the back of my ‘08 or ‘09 tennis pullover, features a mad lib. Category: person. What person? Me. ‘Air Car Is A Vat” Something like that. After some thought, I think it would’ve been better if I had just put ‘I America’. No way would I be endorsing or provoking patriotism, at least not purposely. I just find it a clever way of stating who said pullover...
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