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2019

Hanif Abdurraqib, on Bruce Springsteen

Franny Choi, Soft Science

Wanna see some actual numbers on this bc of another post. I’m curious.

Also yes I know categorization of race is complicated especially outside US contexts etc. etc. I just wanna know how comparatively cracker-dominant this site is, this ain’t a census survey.

If you white-mixed its up to you what to choose I ain’t measuring your genealogy or some shit.

Reblog this, maybe even multiple times, to increase response pool and visibility.

— Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick 

fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.

— Jeanette Winterson, from The White Room 

There is supposed to be a place where no one can reach you. Traditionally, the home, but now we settle for the ocean, the airplane, the summit of a mountain, the middle of a lake, the shower, the womb, the grave

sitting at the little table by the kitchen window, sipping tea & writing

10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board