November 2011
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“I’d rather paint a picture with words.”
– theoldlie
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“O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that remained hidden from Your...”
– Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī
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Occupy All Streets: URGENT FROM TAHRIR →
dontgetattached:
“We are in the midst of a decisive battle in the face of a potentially terminal crackdown. Over the past 72 hours the army has launched a ceaseless assault on revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and squares across Egypt. Over 2000 of us have been injured. More than 30 of us have been murdered. Just in Cairo alone. In the last 48 hours.
But the revolutionaries keep coming. Hundreds...
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dharma apocalypse
I’ve started posting two new poetry series—Dharma Bum and Apocalypse Now. Read those and all of my poetry at byastranger.tumblr.com
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time lost destiny
ok. clearly i’m not all there and he knows it. when he gets that pompous smurk on his face all i can think about is slapping the shit out of him. he thinks he made me but i’ve always known, and he won’t believe the future i tell him—
i’m so worried about losing time. the horrible thing is i’m already lost and losing it, time is slipping and all i can think...
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Anonymous asked: tell us about your first lover
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ask me a question and i’ll try to answer it honestly.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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black magic woman
so the guy who inspired The Obsession Series is now asking me to be his salsa partner—but i can’t because my boyfriend is very protective and jealous (rightly so). he came to my work and told me that he saw me years ago at my secret rendezvous spot.
i need to start employing some anti-love spell since my lust only lasts a season. lets not even go into the latest prey, god forgive...
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people need to stop fucking bothering me while I’m doing my rituals
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i got everything of his
is it strange to want to write about alll my lovers? would it be decent to write about the shocking men and who was sick when i was needy? sometimes i’ll recall this event and exclaim. really? what the fuck…
in the beginning i thought of myself as some leader of lost men. like i could bring happiness to all these lonely mens lives. like i was some beacon of light that they could cling...
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“Perhaps my insomnia only conceals a great fear of death. Perhaps I am afraid...”
– Franz Kafka (via byastranger)
chris-lesage asked: you and your blog have definitely caught my attention. I'm digging it quite a bit. How are ya, love?
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from The Coup
byastranger:
Flesh of time,
Slaves go free at night—
Day starts at seven,
Ends at five,
And the government profits
From crime.
The Coup came first. I was sixteen, smoking blunt after blunt—these were the Eric years, just before the big accident. It was the dawn of my conspiracy days, before I moved downtown—
Read more of my poetry at byastranger.tumblr.com
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KNEEHIGHSANDLOVE
just opened my prize for the kneehighsandlove contest—!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything is amazing—THANK YOU SHANA! =]
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“‘I wish I could love,’ cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in his...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (@theoldlie)
i love how this is still going.
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“I call upon loud-roaring and reveling Dionysus, primeval, double-natured,...”
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Just finished writing about the Dionysian Mysteries for one of my midterms. Just now I evoked him while lighting another incense. You know its the day of the dead—
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