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DO IT FOR HER

(her being you )

i Love vaccines, autism, abortions, homosexuals, sex changes and crime

L’amour à la mer - 1964

Rêves enfantins (1910)

⚜ 𝔔𝔲𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔊𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔫: 𝔒𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔡𝔰 ⚜

✥ “Orchid - breathing incense into butterfly’s wings.” — Matsuo Bashō, from "On Love And Barley: Haiku Of Bashō"

✥ “Black as the sweetness / of black orchid milk.” — Grace Nichols, from The Fat Black Woman’s Poems; “The Fat Black Woman Composes a Black Poem,”

✥ “Sadness & hysteria made my heart expand into an immense sick flower, grotesque blossom, huge red orchid,” — Alice Notley, from The Descent of Alette.

✥ “Evening orchid— the white of its flower hidden in its scent.” — Buson, from Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems

✥ “I bathe in orchid water, wash my hair with scents,” — Song Yu, tr. by Burton Watson, from “The Lord Among The Clouds,”

✥ “Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee, from ‘Moon Gypsy’’

✥ “I was left alone there in the company of orchids, roses and violets, which, like people who are kept waiting in a room beside you but do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more impressive…” — Marcel Proust, "À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs", trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin 

✥ “I am more frail than the orchid petals.” — Li Qingzhao, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from “Light Mist, then Dense Fog,”

✥ “There was the smell of charred wood. There was the smell of dusty velvet. There was the smell of rotting orchids. There was the smell of sour milk.” — Harlan Elison, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”

sharon tate on her wedding day in the 60s

Self control

20 December 2019