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If I could stir
I could break a tree—
I could break you.
H.D. from, “The
Garden”
Garden”
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05 Wednesday Apr 2017
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30 Thursday Mar 2017
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The Roman poet Catullus uses the word, ‘irrumabo’, to mean face-fucking, though the actual term derives from ‘ruma’, the Latin word for ‘udder’ … so we can translate, ‘Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo’, into, ‘I’ll sodomize you and make you suck my cock’, or, ‘I’ll sodomize you and make you suck my udder’ … either way is brilliant.
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29 Wednesday Mar 2017
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BELOW JOB: Victorian prostitute slang, from which we get ‘blow job’, which allows Bart Simpson to say, ‘I didn’t think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows’.
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29 Wednesday Mar 2017
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Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo (I’ll sodomize you and screw your face)
Catullus
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27 Monday Mar 2017
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AMAZZONOMACHIA: literally, ‘woman rider,’ one of my favorite Italian words. What we call the ‘Cowgirl’ position in English sex terms they reenact as the mythical battle between the Ancient Greeks and the Amazons.
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20 Monday Mar 2017
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Love that is dead and buried, yesterday
out of his grave rose up before my face.
No recognition in his look, no trace
of memory in his eyes dust-dimmed and grey.
Christina Rossetti, from, “Love Lies Bleeding”
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18 Saturday Mar 2017
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and yet you're still an asshole, Cymbalta, duloxetine, exhausted Z is exhausted, once ruined always ruined, shame, this is non-stop, yet that’s not an excuse
Cymbalta: a drug I didn’t want, ruining friendships I wish I could’ve kept.
yet that’s not an excuse
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18 Saturday Mar 2017
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Our little baby fell asleep,
and will not wake again
for days and days, and weeks and weeks;
but then he’ll wake again,
and come with his own pretty look,
and kiss Mamma again.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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17 Friday Mar 2017
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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17 Friday Mar 2017
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Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.— Derek Walcott, from “Love After Love”
Thank you, Mr Walcott.
memories of my ghost sista 