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– e.e. cummings

Oh, but I have! she says

Phrases, like:
you don’t really believe that.
we pass fake smiles like cannabis
all around the circle
all around the circle
round and round the circle
if you could taste the brief sublime of the false freely given!
to know that,
to know you,
to know everything.
make it a dream like you have made love
make it a goal like I have made you mine.

Minutiae

Exit Strategy
First I’ll stop kissing you
and then I’ll start holding you.
And you might cry,
to think of things gone.
Pulling Out
First I’ll stop kissing you,
and then I’ll start holding you.
And you might cry out,
thinking of things gone.
Birth Control
First I’ll stop kissing you
and then I’ll start holding you.
And you might cry,
thinking of things gone.

Stasis

A Manifesto Which Says STOP THINKING
- or -
It’s Apparently That Time of the Month for Kyle Pflug  
Two thoughts.
One: This game has too many rules.
Two: That’s because it’s not an effing game.
Sociology, communication studies, even theology and philosophy have obsessively constrained relationships and basic methods of human interaction into boxes. Here we have this absurd world […]

Eleutherios

Bacchus won’t fall in love with me
he tied my hands to the cherry tree
and made sport with the rest of me
but Bacchus won’t fall in love with me.
he has cigarette breath and cigarette eyes
and a cigarette tongue and cigarette wiles
and like silk and smoke he has cigarette smiles
but Bacchus can’t fall in love with me.
he […]


Splendor and Non

Of Interest and Epiphany

Topics for Consumption