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i like my body when it is with your by e.e. cummings
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite a new thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smoothness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like,...
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Late Night By Margaret Atwood
Late night and rain wakes me, a downpour, wind thrashing in the leaves, huge ears, huge feathers, like some chased animal, a giant dog or wild boar. Thunder & shivering windows; from the tin roof the rush of water. I lie askew under the net, tangled in damp cloth, salt in my hair. When this clears there will be fireflies & stars, brighter than anywhere, which...
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“But most importantly: I reject this entire framework. I don’t give a shit...”
– From an awesome post by Lindy West over at The Stranger.
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Eurydice By Carol Ann Duffy
Girls, I was dead and down in the Underworld, a shade, a shadow of my former self, nowhen. It was a place where language stopped, a black full stop, a black hole Where the words had to come to an end. And end they did there, last words, famous or not. It suited me down to the ground.
So imagine me there, unavailable, out of this world, then picture my face in that...
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Virginia legislature passes law shutting down 17...
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By insisting that any facility that performs 5 or more first trimester abortions a month be subject to the same structural requirements as hospitals.
17 clinics in one, fucking. day. 17 clinics. All part of the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (T.R.A.P.) plan, to make abortions so impossible to get that they are de facto illegal for all but the...
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I just got my Don’t Blink shirt from Ript. First thought upon opening it: “Anything that carries the image of an angel is an angel.”
Fuck, I’m screwed.
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The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles By A.E. Stallings
Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove, If you wish, twenty years, and waited, while you Were knee-deep in blood, hip-deep in goddesses.
I’ve not much to show for twenty years’ weaving— I have but one half-finished cloth at the loom. Perhaps it’s the lengthy, meticulous grieving.
Explain how you want to. Believe I unraveled At night...
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In case you needed another reason to love Rep.... →
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York politician is calling on the city to remove a public statue in Queens that depicts a nude man standing over two prone women and to sell it on Craigslist. Rep. Anthony Weiner says the statue, Triumph of Civic Virtue, is sexist and plans to hold a press conference Friday calling for its removal. The 20 foot high marble statue was designed by sculptor...
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Amanda thinks Democrats might cave on defunding... →
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I fear she is probably right.
NO. JUST FUCKING NO.
I have to agree with her…I just can’t be comfortable in the notion that we’re safe from it actually passing, considering the way reproductive rights have been treated by Democrats in the recent past.
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I Go Back to the House for a Book By Billy Collins
I turn around on the gravel and go back to the house for a book, something to read at the doctor’s office, and while I am inside, running the finger of inquisition along a shelf, another me that did not bother to go back to the house for a book heads out on his own, rolls down the driveway, and swings left toward town, a ghost in his ghost...
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In Which Lady Gaga Is Awesome →
“That discussion was one of the most intense conversations I’ve ever had in a business meeting,” Lady Gaga said. “Part of my deal with Target is that they have to start affiliating themselves with LGBT charity groups and begin to reform and make amends for the mistakes they’ve made in the past … our relationship is hinged upon their reform in the company to support the gay community and to...
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Orpheus (1)
By Margaret Atwood
You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me.
I was obedient, but numb, like an arm gone to sleep; the return to time was not my choice.
By then I was used to silence. Though something stretched between us like a whisper, like a rope: my former name, drawn tight. You had your old leash with you, love...
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I so needed this today.
By a vote of 5-1, Asheville City Council affirmed a resolution Tuesday night supporting equal rights for same sex partnerships. People Of Faith For Just Relationships authored the resolution, which calls for equal rights and protections for gays and straights alike. The resolution creates a Domestic Partnership Registry, full rights for same-sex couples and support of familial and civil marriage...
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“House Democrats are leaving the state rather than vote on anti-union...”
– Democrats trigger Statehouse showdown | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
Dear DCCC: this is how Democrats fight back.
(via champagnecandy)
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I asked my love: “Why do you make yourself so beautiful?” “To please myself. I am the eye, the mirror, and the loveliness; The loved one and the lover and the love.”
- Abu-Said
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Orpheus (2) By Margaret Atwood
Whether he will go on singing or not, knowing what he knows of the horror of this world:
He was not wandering among meadows all this time. He was down there among the mouthless ones, among those with no fingers, those whose names are forbidden, those washed up eaten into among the gray stones of the shore where nobody goes through fear. Those with...
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It is late at night And the North Star is shining. The mist covers the rice-fields And the bamboos Are whispering full of crickets. The watch beats on the iron-wood gong, And priests are ringing the pagoda bells. We hear the far-away games of peasants And distant singing in the cottages.
It is late at night. As we talk gently, Sitting by one another, Life is as beautiful as night. The red moon is...
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Oh goody, apparently Outlander is anti-gay, as well as being full of sexual assault and abuse and female submission.
Fantastic. -.-‘
