Mary Szybist, Incarnadine

Äääääääääääääääääääääääää = anxiety in Finnish

Ååååååååååååååååååååååååå = anxiety in Swedish

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

Victoria Chang

Didn't like it

yeah okay ill reblog that

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

these exchanges and this fiddling about for the collective to appreciate in passing is, to me, true artistic spirit. I don't know what the past was truly like to live, but in my heart i know that humans have always been... like this

ok. :] ♥️

i'm not really bound to a certain inevitable fate as such it's more of a situationship

got a sword hanging above my head like damocles but sometimes it's just a fun accessory rather than a symbol of my self-made hell

it's so funny how half of us are like "food is sacred and the kitchen is holy ground. to break bread with others is inherently sacrament" and the other half of us are like "my villain origin story is someone looked at me when i was in the kitchen"

If I love you, I will cook for you. If you want me to continue to love and cook for you, stay out of my kitchen.

the kitchen is holy ground and only I, its hierophant, may enter

See previous records

a greek chorus which just shouts “oh shit” at relevant intervals

“gods only exist because humans believe in them!” just say you have a humancentric view of the multidimensional cosmos and go

Rhiannon McGavin

Ambalila Hemsell, from "Party Poem"

First humans ever to leave the solar system suddenly drop out of communications and the ship can't be found with any equipment. After one month of no contact their home countries start reluctantly holding funerals for the space heroes only for them all to turn up, healthy, well fed and extremely disoriented, in the middle of Tokyo, talking about alien abduction. Turns out that aliens found the poor humans straying out of their solar system, presumably lost, and took them to Alien Wildlife Rehabilitation before dumping them back in the middle of their native habitat.

#bonus points if none if the crew are Japanese#aliens just dropped where they thought was best

I literally just googled "city with the highest population"

I’ll bet they have cool new tattoos that turn out to be tracking devices too. Just in case these spirited individuals try to make another break for it.

... do the tats make them stupid popular, like that time scientists gave birds tracker anklets and it accidentally made them ultra fuckable

Let’s say yes. Those alien scientists are learning so much, and none of it is accurate.

important to note that wildlife rehabbers dont just go around grabbing animals they think need to be somewhere else. If they did that then that would interfere with how a local popupation might be moving or expanding its habitat.

Wildlife rehabbers only grab animals that are hurt in some way or are in danger of being hurt because they are living where a human does not want them (such as removing a racoon from an attic), or might even be a health hazard for the human...

So... what this implies is that the original spaceship either suffered a malfuncrion and the aliens - noticing how the little ship with the migrating apes on it was suddenly breaking down - swooped in to take care of them and restore them to full health before returning them to their home planet and a popluar human colony.......

OR

The ship was encroaching on the territory of something far more dangerous

I think it would be funny if the "something far more dangerous" was just, like, giant space ships.

It turns out, the milky way is like some kind of protected reserve or park, and as soon as people left it they wandered on to the space version of a busy highway, and their space ship was so small and slow that they had to be picked up and moved like a turtle that decided to cross the road.

The sympathetic aliens rescuing them originally wanted to send them in the direction they were headed and let them keep going (like you should with turtles), but discovered they were very, very, far away from any habitat they could survive in, and so took them to the Alien Wildlife Rehab, who just gave them all a short checkup and returned them to the nearest place where humans could be found.

Based on this last addition, I now think we should be giving SUVs to turtles.

Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Mohammad Shaheen), Like a Hand Tattoo in an Ode by an Ancient Arab Poet