we need to bring back inviting people over for cake and coffee. my grandma used to do that all the time and I think it's a lost art

Chen Chen

[/ID: tweets by @/chenchenwrites, saying: “one of my pet peeves is the belief that a poem is just a more complicated way of saying something you could say plainly. no. at its best, every line of a poem is actually the simplest way you could say something—it's just that the something is complicated & strange & alive.

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a poem inhabits its own clarity, which may be deeply mysterious but that's different from unclear. and at its best, it is an unparaphrasable clarity. it says what cannot otherwise be said—and it is an encounter with the unsayable (sometimes in the same line!)

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a poem is not ornament. it is oracle. vital opening into wonder.” /end ID]

get in bestie we’re trying out new things even though we’re scared

it’s just me and my irrelevant blog against the world

“Hey babe so I’m gonna hop on your space bus later today to threaten y’all so like let’s just pretend we don’t know each other ok? Cool luv ya”

two hands is not enough i need to draw them all

guy who yells out “IM GONNA FUCKING LOSE IT” before letting out the gentlest, smallest scream you’ve ever heard in your goddamn life

Literally nothing could be more fun for me than reading my own writing from months ago and forgetting i was the one who wrote it. Im glued to the screen and i cant wait to find out what happens next. Bitch YOU made it up!!!!

love hides in questions, you cannot ask a thing without giving yourself away. how was your day? (i hope it was good) when can i see you again? (i pray it's soon) do you feel safe with me? (i feel safe with you) what is your favorite color? (i wish to enrobe you in all that makes you smile)

i don’t mean to be political, but what if everyone had basic human rights

Even people who’s vibes are off

even people who’s vibes are off

Errmmmmm aksually 🤓☝️ its whose but otherwise yes

even this asshole

80% of "passing" is having enough money to purchase the clothes and services that will allow you to pass. Please stop holding being able to stealth up as the pinnacle of trans achievement. That place belongs to surviving. It belongs to finding joy. It belongs to love and community, not people who are rich enough to have professional makeup artists and tailors.

there are so many books in this beautiful world. many of them bad

Fish, pointillist birds, grapple, Sondheim, and frank O’Hara