June 2013
CHRYSOPOETICS
I. the world ends softly—
systole, then
the sudden absence of answer.
II. the sky burns in pieces—Beijing first,
then Bangkok. The news is full
of men and women in surgical masks,
suitcoats rimed ash-white.
Children are being kept inside, it informs,
but you catch round faces at the edge
of camera frames, small noses pressed
against windows.
(how to explain Armageddon
to those little grigori, wide-eyed and guiltless?)
your town gets hit between Nashville
and Kansas City, a few chill-sharp hours
before dawn. you stand in the gathering white,
death dusting your eyelashes.
it’s getting harder to breathe.
III. the cities flicker, fall dark. The nights
become silvercold bright; the milky way
a Jacob’s Ladder—ascending, ascending,
and impassible. Sometimes you see dark shapes
pass across the constellations, slipping
from empty to emptiness.
Their wings blot out the stars.
IV. you forget how to sing.
you forget what it was for.
V. you count your ribs one morning—trace
the crescive struts of them with your
ever-lengthening nails. There is blood
in your teeth you did not put there; war rides
a burned-out red mustang, and his mouth
tastes like the wrong end of a bullet. The pale rider
sits on the end of your bed at night, carving
and sealing shem into your skull, whispering,
the harvest is past.
Under the bloated sun, you tear down the last gods.
It is not enough, this slow monstering—
you have remembered the apple
still lodged in your throat and
you are not saved.
VI. the angels come too late,
feathers crawling with mites and eyes flat
as snakes’. The smell of ozone lingers
in their skin, and glory glory glory sounds
like a punchline.
They promise altars and arks;
the hollow earth, the ascending light.
You will be gold, and gold again.
You are not surprised when their throats
are torn open, revealed to be hollow.
VII. it is cold here at the end of all ages.
” —by notbecauseofvictories (via notbecauseofvictories)Whiskey please, I need some whiskey please
So bring me consciousness and kill my innocence
Please lay your eyes on me
Lead me in the dance
Give me no chance to reconsider….reconsider
I’m the queen of the world
I bump into things
I spin around in circles
And I am singing
And I’m singing well I’m singing
Why can’t I stay like this
Dear God
Oh, Let me be young
Let me stay please
Oh, Let me stay like this Oohhoh
Bring me home
I got no plans for tomorrow
I got no plans for tomorrow
I got no plans in sight
In fact I’m free this week
I’m free this month
I’m lonely
Lonely this year
I’m lonely forever
May 2013
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers.” —Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)
I’m gonna leave you—go away
It was really, really good.
You made me happy every single day.
But now!
I’ve got to go away!
“The Chavistas announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week. Full-time mothers will now be able to collect a pension.”
Holland, 1945 // Neutral Milk Hotel
But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
at monash university in melbourne the women’s department had a bake sale and cupcakes were one dollar for men and eighty cents for women and seventy cents for trans* people to represent the wage gap and heaps of guys kicked off about it being sexist and that’s how i finally understood how hypocritical and ignorant men’s rights activism is
“Of course it’s exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, from Breakfast of Champions (Delacorte Press, 1973)
“First of all:
I am tired.
I am true of heart!
And also:
You are tired.
You are true of heart!”
Hitting the bullshit nail right on its head.
Feminists don’t hate men, we hate the bullshit power structure that exists that allows men to take advantage of women rather than dealing with their emotions.
(via teacheremmalee)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Vocals Only) | Queen
His voice was actual perfection.
I’m sorry, I know I only reblogged this the other day but I just…. It’s…. Wow. There’s never a time for it not to be on my blog.
o mio dio…
