For Life's Not A Paragraph
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
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Quote reblogged from The Roots Are Down There RiotousMaking love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held hands.
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Photoset reblogged from I'm a spy!
love these
No one kisses like this anymore
Want to reenact these.
The train ones!
Let’s bring kissing like this back.
(Source: eisforellie)
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Laurie Anderson.
Anderson photographed men who called to her or whistled her on the street. In her artist statement she writes about one experience,“As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon. I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object. I wheeled around, furious. ‘Did you say that?’ He looked around surprised, then defiant ‘Yeah, so what the fuck if I did?’ I raised my Nikon, took aim began to focus. His eyes darted back and forth, an undercover cop? CLICK.”
Anderson takes the power from her male pursuers, allowing them nothing more than the momentary fear that their depravity has just been captured in a picture.
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A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.W.B. Yeats -
Link reblogged from I'm a spy!
During Christmas in the 1870s, when he wasn’t sending horse-led sleighs piled high with food and toys to his less fortunate neighbours, the inimitable Mark Twain could usually be found at the family home with his wife and young children, often pretending to be Santa…
