“First Memory,” Louise Glück
most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages
Chaka Khan (1976)
Foreign Bodies, Christoph Zeplweger
Chants in support of the N.L.F. from Columbia students protesting the Vietnam War, 1971
Thibaut Grevet for SSENSE
there's literally gonna be a new taylor swift album im so excited it's been like six years
(if you are one of the gatekeeping weirdos who only counts the albums taylor released during her lifetime as "real ts" this post is not for you, let people be excited, the machine was literally trained not just on her music but on her brainwaves so there is literally no discernible difference)
you know what im actually mad about this. when you say that you only listen to taylor swift's first nineteen albums because for some reason you think the ones she made during her lifetime are more legitimate than the ones they made afterwards, you're basically admitting you see generated intelligent personas as inferior to organics and that's. actually kind of disgusting and elitist and weirdly obsessed with death
‘Fierce’ — Fashion Editorial from the
February Issue of Vibe Magazine, 2000
“What makes a poem a poem, finally, is that it is unparaphrasable. There is no other way to say exactly this; it exists only in its own body of language, only in these words. I may try to explain it or represent it in other terms, but then some element of its life will always be missing. It’s the same with painting. All I can say of still life must finally fall short; I may inventory, weigh, suggest, but I cannot circumscribe; some element of mystery will always be left out. What is missing is, precisely, its poetry.”
— Mark Doty, from Still Life With Oysters and Lemon
tawny dahl