“I’m Not Sure Which Is Worse: Intense Feeling, Or The Absence Of It.”

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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5 months ago

This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit

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livingcorpsesstuff

5 months ago

The End and the Beginning

BY WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA
TRANSLATED BY JOANNA TRZECIAK

After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.

Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.

Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.

Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop up a wall.
Someone has to glaze a window,
rehang a door.

Photogenic it’s not,
and takes years.
All the cameras have left
for another war.

We’ll need the bridges back,
and new railway stations.
Sleeves will go ragged
from rolling them up.

Someone, broom in hand,
still recalls the way it was.
Someone else listens
and nods with unsevered head.
But already there are those nearby
starting to mill about
who will find it dull.

From out of the bushes
sometimes someone still unearths
rusted-out arguments
and carries them to the garbage pile.

Those who knew
what was going on here
must make way for
those who know little.
And less than little.
And finally as little as nothing.

In the grass that has overgrown
causes and effects,
someone must be stretched out
blade of grass in his mouth
gazing at the clouds.

the end and the beginning - wisława szymborska tr. joanna trzeciak

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livingcorpsesstuff

1 year ago

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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livingcorpsesstuff

5 months ago

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102

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livingcorpsesstuff

1 year ago

things i’ll not call you a whore for:

sexual activity

how you dress

things i’ll call you a whore for:

stealing my food

stealing my lemons

my cat likes you more than me

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livingcorpsesstuff

5 months ago

a poem about stillness.

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livingcorpsesstuff

9 months ago

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livingcorpsesstuff

1 year ago

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

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livingcorpsesstuff

5 months ago

i have GOT to get over my obsessive worry about being a burden on others oh my god. it is okay to inconvenience people! people in your life who really care about you won’t mind being inconvenienced!! it’s literally just the human experience!!! communicate your needs for the love of god it’ll be FINE!!!!!

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livingcorpsesstuff

5 months ago

Um…those who do not move cannot feel their chains tbh….

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