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How To Watch Your Brother Die - Michael Lassell

https://www.tumblr.com/handstandsonthecatastrophecurve/716493929146613760/image-description-how-to-watch-your-brother

excerpt: <blockquote>When the call comes, be calm. Say to your wife, "My brother is dying. I have to fly to California." Try not to be shocked that he already looks like a cadaver. Say to the young man sitting by your brother's side, "I'm his brother," Try not to be shocked when the young man says, "I'm his lover. Thanks for coming."</blockquote>

#by-michaellassell #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤ouchy #➤yeah

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Praising the Great - Jo Walton

https://www.patreon.com/posts/praising-great-64716425

<blockquote>Shakespeare was good with words, and also wise. Florence is beautiful beyond compare. Fruit tastes delicious, have you tried a pear? Bach's music, wow, the power never dies.</blockquote>

#by-jowalton #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

2 years ago | View Shared by soph

Lost and Found - Yee Heng Yeh

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/lost-and-found-2/

<blockquote>Would the rightful owners of these 17 bodies please turn up to claim them? For verification purposes, state your name— the one that’s missing from the papers, the one stitched to your soul. So that we know which one’s yours, describe your body as it was when you lost it:</blockquote>

#by-yeehengyeh #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

2 years ago | View Shared by soph

USA, 2018 - Jo Walton

https://www.patreon.com/posts/usa-2018-18598715

<blockquote>This is the way it was in Germany As changes came inexorably worse By increments, and creeping like a curse "God damn those fascists? Where'd I put my key?"</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-politics #by-jowalton #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

6 years ago | View Shared by soph

Questions On Re-reading Oz - Jane Yolen

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/questions-on-re-reading-oz/

<blockquote>Was it this thin before, When I raced through to the end In a single breath? Did I guess motivation Where none is given, None implied?</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-rarefandom #by-janeyolen #fandom-wizardofoz #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

6 years ago | View Shared by soph

This Vote Is Legally Binding - Ursula Vernon

http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1680540.html

<blockquote>In response to all those articles about talking to women with headphones…</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-ursulav #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

8 years ago | View Shared by soph

The Flight Into Egypt - Jo Walton

http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/poetry/the-news/the-flight-into-egypt/

<blockquote>The Holy Family flew economy, of course, Every seat taken, after the holidays,</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-religion #by-jowalton #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Conscientious Objector - Edna St. Vincent Millay

http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/edna-st-vincent-millay/conscientious-objector/

<blockquote>I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-ednastvincentmillay #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Catch a Body - Ilse Bendorf

http://ladyofthelog.tumblr.com/post/91394163370/catch-a-body-ilse-bendorf-for-6-16

<blockquote>Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell anybody anything” is a string of words I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract by laser from the ribcage of all of us who ever believed it, who felt afraid to miss someone, to be the last one standing. </blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-ilsebendorf #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤lovely #➤yeah

10 years ago | View Shared by soph

Another Poem About the Weather - Jo Walton

http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/poetry/the-turning-year/another-poem-about-the-weather/

<blockquote>It sometimes goes past freezing in the morning and the snow that comes down sideways turns to rain… They say bathetic fallacies are allegorical and weather’s just a metaphor for pain.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-jowalton #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

11 years ago | View Shared by soph

Is This the Face? - Jo Walton

http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/poetry/new-myths-for-old-gold/is-this-the-face/

<blockquote>I was thirteen, covered in zits, my hair dripped grease down my back my neck was much too long I slouched to hide my breasts. My big sister was clever and pretty. My brothers were jocks.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-mythology #by-jowalton #char-helenoftroy #fandom-grecoromanmythology #fandom-iliad #focus-gen #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #type-poetry #➤yeah

11 years ago | View Shared by soph

Doing laundry on the last day of the world, by jo walton

http://papersky.livejournal.com/542917.html

<blockquote>Even if we never wear these shirts, lie on these sheets, eat off these tablecloths, they will still flap out blue between the buildings, an unexpected line of colour like a grace note. (And should we live to bring them in they will smell like fresh sunshine.)</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-apocalypse #about-domestic #by-jowalton #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤lovely #➤yeah

12 years ago | View Shared by soph

Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal, by Naomi Shihab Nye

http://karenhealey.livejournal.com/948272.html

<blockquote>After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately. Well one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-naomishihabnye #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤excellent #➤yeah

13 years ago | View Shared by soph

Guitar Repair Woman, by Buddy Wakefield

http://poetry.dreamwidth.org/198297.html

<blockquote>My mother told me, “If you ever become a rock star do not smash the guitar. There are too many poor kids out there who have nothin’ and they see that shit when all they wanna do is play that thing. Boy you better let’m play.”</blockquote>

#.to-reread #by-buddywakefield #note-downloaded #type-poetry #➤yeah

13 years ago | View Shared by soph

Found Poem: I'll Always Remember / The Time the Aliens Made Us Do It, by bironic

http://bironic.livejournal.com/261916.html

<blockquote>They’ve all grown wary—understandably so—of alien initiation rites. A meta-AMTDI story.</blockquote>

#.to-reread #about-amtdi #about-fandom #by-bironic #fandom-sga #focus-dudeslash #length-0-2k #note-downloaded #ship-john/rodney #type-fanfic #type-meta #type-poetry #➤delightful #➤excellent #➤yeah

13 years ago | View Shared by soph

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