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IT WAS LOVE, I GUESS
a house in nebraska, ethel cain // nearly a valediction, marilyn hacker // morning in the burned house, margaret atwood // mabel: matryoshka (ep.28), becca de la rosa & mabel martin // hemlock grove, brian mcgreevy // one last poem for richard, sandra cisneros // fragrant is my many flower'd crown, lingua ignota // the loved and the unloved, françois mauriac
Unknown, Center Star Quilt, 1815-1825 New England Glazed wool 100 1/2 x 98" American Folk Art Museum
I really don't mean give them the guillotine as a joke.
This should not scare you away from unionizing; this should scare you towards unionizing.
Didgori Monument, Georgia
if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t
someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter
most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t
homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right
This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.
Essam Marouf (Egyptian, 1958) - EM 02 (2023)
Ron Finley in his garden wearing a moss and succulent coat created by Melissa Meier
Sycamore hair comb by Lucien Gaillard, horn and silver, early 1900s.
— Michael Ryan, ‘Deathwatch’, from New and Selected Poems
Pablo Neruda, from One Hundred Love Sonnets
Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera: Poems; “Passion Fish”
