June 2013
“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky”
—Haruki Murakami.
“I’m learning how to tell stories
so I can tell the world your story.
I read poems but they fall short of the way
your hair falls across your face so I shut the book.
You have dirty hands and a sugary heart
and convenience store taste in wine.
The way you say my name feels like fireworks
on an unexpected day, like October 9th or April 22nd.
This is a poem about the first time I saw you naked
and the night you showed up at my door at 2 a.m.
with three tomatoes and a mango.
My calendar was rude enough to remind me
it’s been 43 days since we last touched.
Still, I calculate how long it would take me to walk
2,387 miles and strangely I feel better
(598 hours. And 12 minutes).” —Clementine von Radics.
so I can tell the world your story.
I read poems but they fall short of the way
your hair falls across your face so I shut the book.
You have dirty hands and a sugary heart
and convenience store taste in wine.
The way you say my name feels like fireworks
on an unexpected day, like October 9th or April 22nd.
This is a poem about the first time I saw you naked
and the night you showed up at my door at 2 a.m.
with three tomatoes and a mango.
My calendar was rude enough to remind me
it’s been 43 days since we last touched.
Still, I calculate how long it would take me to walk
2,387 miles and strangely I feel better
(598 hours. And 12 minutes).” —Clementine von Radics.
“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”
—Kurt Vonnegut.
“I don’t want a lukewarm love. I want it to burn my lips and engulf my soul.”
—Woori.
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
—Ambrose Bierce.
“Whatever you desire is already connected in some way to who you are and what you now have. Find that way, follow the connection.”
—Ralph Marston.
“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
—Frida Kahlo.
“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre.
“You step a little closer to me, so close that i can’t see what’s going on.”
—Damien Rice.
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
—Simone de Beauvoir.
“Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.”
—Ann Aguirre.
I crave you
in the most
innocent form
for I crave to say
good night
and give you
forehead kisses
and to say
that I adore you
when you feel
at your worst.I crave you
in ways
where I just
want to be
next to you
and nothing
more or less.
“If two points are destined to touch, the universe will always find a way to make the connection - even when all hope seems to be lost. Certain ties cannot be broken. They define who we are - and who we can become. Across space, across time, among paths we cannot predict - nature always finds a way.”
—from Touch.
“Life doesn’t always introduce you to the people you want to meet. Sometimes, life puts you in touch with the people you need to meet to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to become.”
—Unknown.
“The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.”
— Charles Bukowski.
“Sleep will come for me
but not until you and I
wear each other out.” —Tyler Knott Gregson.
but not until you and I
wear each other out.” —Tyler Knott Gregson.
