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"austen" poems
Sparkling petals slice through feet of wanderers Dashing hopes and slitting tendons Each day she visits Sprinkling books and soda-filled sponges among the wire vines. The sizzles excited her And she smiles in spite of her sizzling feet Pleased in her harmless sabotage. The suffocated earth shutters beneath Layers of circuit boards, damp and rotting Steam rises from the core And crinkles the pages of Jane Austen Dr. Seuss Kurt Vonnegut. Her mother’s journal from pregnancy.
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 12:51 AM UTC
Outlet Garden
Radical as Shakespeare Cool as Frost Spooky as Poe Cyclic as Lee Rounded as Austen Abundant as Brontë Earnest as Hemmingway
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 7:05 AM UTC
Adjective as a Writer
They didn't know that her heart was perpetually on vacation, stuffed between the pages of Austen and Murakami. Yes, they loved her autumn smiles, her conversations, even the jazz ensembles of her clothes. But her heart was locked in the New York Public Library. The distance was far too great, the risk far too much. After all, this was the place where Paul Varjak told Holly he loved her and all she did was look at him.
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 2:50 PM UTC
New York Public Library
I thought I knew what love was I read Austen, Bronte, and Shakespeare, too. I thought I knew what love was and then I fell in love with you I am no stranger to love's life and lore and had been nearly married once before his alone I swore to be, forever long thinking it was love until I heard your song with kindness, passion, and care you showed me what love could be with you, my defenses are bare and it's only your love that I see I'll give myself to you because I've found a love both warm and true I never knew what love was before I had met you
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 10:55 AM UTC
Tenderness
Tolstoy was a boy, Ibsen was Henrik's son Hardy had a father, And see how well they've done. Byron was a grandson, And Wordsworth had a wet nurse, Thoreau had a 2 to go, Shakespeare a bad marriage, Austen was a loner, Poor Sylvia was a goner, And see how well they've done. Joyce had a ***** mind, Fitzgerald liked to drink, Richler liked to smoke, And Wolfe enjoyed a **** And see how well they've done. Fielding was a misogynist, Wilde was a jailbird; Virginia a misandrist, And Kerouac a simple **** Yet see how well they've done. Still with all their drawbacks, Look how well they've done; Like our old friend John, We surely come un-done.
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
Just Like Us
I was never a simple person but I craved simplicity like I craved my grandmother's strawberry jam I loved school, whistling and everything taller than me They reminded me of my father I hated screen doors, cracks in pavement and goodbyes When I was four he left me all those tainted things but I loved him Four years later my mother asked me what I wanted for Christmas I told her I needed a baby brother I used to spend every night while he slept at his feet When I was eleven, my mother moved us to a new city There were a million games of cops and robbers and my first boyfriend, Spencer He had blond hair and eyes so blue they put my brother's to shame He told me he loved me under an oak tree kissed my cheek and got so red in the face I thought he was going to burst My mother was in University and had the softest piano hands Her eyes were glossy from all her tears I collected them in my jewellery box heart There were rust on my edges and hers I was a rusty by product of drunk unintentions A mathematic, scientific accident Not a young mother with high hopes and goodluck On Sunday afternoons I played hopscotch on my babysitters driveway, I was nine On Sunday evenings he brought me to his secret lair He'd secretly touch me in all my secret places I hated him I think he hated me too When I was six, I wanted to be a teacher Ten years later, a man with a medical degree told me I couldn't have babies I couldn't look at another child, so I figured teaching wasn't my best option Plus, I've never been a fan of teaching children not to make a mess I spent my whole life making sure it wasn't messy When I was fourteen, I wanted to run away I wanted to go to Europe with my best friend Oskari he cut his arm and told me he couldn't really bleed he didn't feel anything I wanted to bless him I wanted to read him Jane Austen in an open field Under a single sycamore tree We never made it When I was seventeen, I ran away I moved in with my father's mother He has her eyes, just like me That same year I met a boy Who rode a stolen steed to my grandma's couch Made love to me all night took on me on walks and sent my heart off to the races He made my life a little simpler
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Apr 3, 2013
Apr 3, 2013 at 11:31 PM UTC
Simplicity
I was never a simple person but I craved simplicity like I craved my grandmother's strawberry jam I loved school, whistling and everything taller than me They reminded me of my father I hated screen doors, cracks in pavement and goodbyes When I was four he left me all those tainted things but I loved him Four years later my mother asked me what I wanted for Christmas I told her I needed a baby brother I used to spend every night while he slept at his feet When I was eleven, my mother moved us to a new city There were a million games of cops and robbers and my first boyfriend, Spencer He had blond hair and eyes so blue they put my brother's to shame He told me he loved me under an oak tree kissed my cheek and got so red in the face I thought he was going to burst My mother was in University and had the softest piano hands Her eyes were glossy from all her tears I collected them in my jewellery box heart There were rust on my edges and hers I was a rusty by product of drunk unintentions A mathematic, scientific accident Not a young mother with high hopes and goodluck On Sunday afternoons I played hopscotch on my babysitters driveway, I was nine On Sunday evenings he brought me to his secret lair He'd secretly touch me in all my secret places I hated him I think he hated me too When I was six, I wanted to be a teacher Ten years later, a man with a medical degree told me I couldn't have babies I couldn't look at another child, so I figured teaching wasn't my best option Plus, I've never been a fan of teaching children not to make a mess I spent my whole life making sure it wasn't messy When I was fourteen, I wanted to run away I wanted to go to Europe with my best friend Oskari he cut his arm and told me he couldn't really bleed he didn't feel anything I wanted to bless him I wanted to read him Jane Austen in an open field Under a single sycamore tree We never made it When I was seventeen, I ran away I moved in with my father's mother He has her eyes, just like me That same year I met a boy Who rode a stolen steed to my grandma's couch Made love to me all night took on me on walks and sent my heart off to the races He made my life a little simpler
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Scene 1: (Periwinkle room, Jigglypuff poster, soft alternative music) I stomp in, Niagara Falls streaming Throw his copy of Pablo Neruda poetry into the trash And start reading Virginia Woolf Poetic revolution. That’ll show him Scene 2: (Cafe atmosphere, fading laughter, upbeat music) Whoa. That guy. Not that one. The one on the left Kinda nice, kinda cute And he laughed at my joke Jane Austen romances and Zooey Glass daydreams fill my waking moments Scene 3: (Restaurant, muffled conversations, classical music) What is he staring at? Who is he staring at? Oh no awkward conversation gap Say something, quick, anything “The weather is nice tonight, yeah?” Not that. But he laughs Night saved Scene 4: (Outside the restaurant, night breezes, car noises) “That was nice,” He casually mentions Yeah. Nice. Not great. Amazing. Life-altering. Nice. The same adjective used to describe the weather Devoid of meaning. Scene 5: (Car, radio on silent, crickets chirping) “I wanted to give you something” Hands me, Oh dear god no, A copy of Neruda That ****** Neruda.
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Dec 27, 2012
Dec 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM UTC
Archetype Romance
Dear, Parents. Siblings. Friends. Lovers: Give you this. Give you that. You take ten and I take that: NOTHING! My shoulder? Please! And my home too? Progress with ease as I wish for you. But a moment for ME, oh but just one, I’d like you to SEE just what you have done; Sorrow and pain, my tongue will stutter, but through my tears my RAGE will flutter. Though this may be the gist of my anger in reign, a WALL and my fist returns...no gain. When Austen, Kafka, Garcia-Marquez instead hit the wall, ALL ties are dead. “YOU here for me, but not I for you.” Is all you can see... All you can do... Your ear I implore, a little sympathy too; FRUSTRATION galore, to hell with you!
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Sep 3, 2013
Sep 3, 2013 at 7:45 PM UTC
'RAGE'
Dear Colette, I want to write to you about being a woman for that is what you write to me. I want to tell you how your face enduring after thirty, forty, fifty. . . hangs above my desk like my own muse. I want to tell you how your hands reach out from your books & seize my heart. I want to tell you how your hair electrifies my thoughts like my own halo. I want to tell you how your eyes penetrate my fear & make it melt. I want to tell you simply that I love you-- though you are "dead" & I am still "alive." Suicides & spinsters-- all our kind! Even decorous Jane Austen never marrying, & Sappho leaping, & Sylvia in the oven, & Anna Wickham, Tsvetaeva, Sara Teasdale, & pale Virginia floating like Ophelia, & Emily alone, alone, alone. . . . But you endure & marry, go on writing, lose a husband, gain a husband, go on writing, sing & tap dance & you go on writing, have a child & still you go on writing, love a woman, love a man & go on writing. You endure your writing & your life. Dear Colette, I only want to thank you: for your eyes ringed with bluest paint like bruises, for your hair gathering sparks like brush fire, for your hands which never willingly let go, for your years, your child, your lovers, all your books. . . . Dear Colette, you hold me to this life.
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Dear Colette
i love the fact that most people rather enter the concept of karma rather dialectics to argue their point - makes emily austen seem like a nutcracker of ideas to come from ikea as the self-assembled semi-detached heights, otherwise known as wuthering, heights or the disco-ball done in mahoganny eyed splinter shine - sheens the spot! it's just so ****** blocked nose rotten, the opposite of polite society, a bit like the middle-ages... reigning paranoia imported from a lost colony, library cards of blue indian peasants turned into pheasants that did the cancan dance all of a sudden... miracles christ couldn't even forsee! i'm free every saturday if you're hashtag up-for-it... never mind... i'll leave my quote and oil my phone-number for a missing mobile telepathic nuance on when differentiating blue indians with garam masala and red indians with mohawks - easiest game of all: snakes & ladders, noughts & crosses... garam masala & mohawks.
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Dec 5, 2015
Dec 5, 2015 at 8:26 PM UTC
where there's an ikea there's a suede scandinavian's worth of cabbage / call it evlis, i call it luck
I have a little secret It’s about the place I work I’m supposed to be a teacher But a school’s not where I lurk I spend my weekdays cooking Serving people tea I’m not a chef though, in a classroom’s Where I’m meant to be. I think if I fry one more egg Fill one more sugar *** Spend one more minute worrying If the ****** teapot’s hot I might just lose the will to serve At least the will to fry I’m so tired of the ‘thanks so much’ The ‘have a good day’ lie But please do not misunderstand I’m not ungrateful for my job It’s just not what I trained for Being tied up to a hob I expected to be in a class Full of eager faces Whose imaginations I could take To so many different places Instead I’m filling stomachs Watching people eat and drink I cook and serve, a faceless drone So they don’t have to think I know it’s not forever This job I’ve grown to hate One day I’ll take this apron off Leave the café to its fate The café will survive I’m sure In fact I have no doubt That’s why I don’t feel guilty That I can’t wait to get out The café will go on and on Still serving up its tea But next time that I see the place What stranger will serve me? Will I feel that they are in my place? That their eggs are not quite right That their service could be quicker Their smile a bit more bright Will I feel that I should tell them How I once stood in their shoes? How I thought if I fried one more egg My sanity I’d lose I think I’ll save those comments Until she brings my tea I won’t want to discourage her While she’s still serving me Besides she may enjoy her job Who am I to wreck it? Just because I missed the world Of Austen, Keats and Beckett She knows just where her future lays I thought I knew the same So why do I still keep a secret Like it’s a source of shame? I shouldn’t moan about my job The wolf’s not at the door It’s only bad days when I think Just what did I train for?
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Jun 13, 2012
Jun 13, 2012 at 11:06 AM UTC
In someone else’s shoes
I have a little secret It’s about the place I work I’m supposed to be a teacher But a school’s not where I lurk I spend my weekdays cooking Serving people tea I’m not a chef though, in a classroom’s Where I’m meant to be. I think if I fry one more egg Fill one more sugar *** Spend one more minute worrying If the ****** teapot’s hot I might just lose the will to serve At least the will to fry I’m so tired of the ‘thanks so much’ The ‘have a good day’ lie But please do not misunderstand I’m not ungrateful for my job It’s just not what I trained for Being tied up to a hob I expected to be in a class Full of eager faces Whose imaginations I could take To so many different places Instead I’m filling stomachs Watching people eat and drink I cook and serve, a faceless drone So they don’t have to think I know it’s not forever This job I’ve grown to hate One day I’ll take this apron off Leave the café to its fate The café will survive I’m sure In fact I have no doubt That’s why I don’t feel guilty That I can’t wait to get out The café will go on and on Still serving up its tea But next time that I see the place What stranger will serve me? Will I feel that they are in my place? That their eggs are not quite right That their service could be quicker Their smile a bit more bright Will I feel that I should tell them How I once stood in their shoes? How I thought if I fried one more egg My sanity I’d lose I think I’ll save those comments Until she brings my tea I won’t want to discourage her While she’s still serving me Besides she may enjoy her job Who am I to wreck it? Just because I missed the world Of Austen, Keats and Beckett She knows just where her future lays I thought I knew the same So why do I still keep a secret Like it’s a source of shame? I shouldn’t moan about my job The wolf’s not at the door It’s only bad days when I think Just what did I train for?
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following on with my current obsession with my tomato growing experiment, ive decided to look at books, and films, and any other related tomato themes, as follows: The Tomatoes Of Wrath-Steinbeck A Midsummer Night's Tomato-Shakespeare Tomato And Juliet-Ditto Frankentomato-Shelley Alice in Tomatoland-Carrol Night Of The Living Tomato-zombie horror! E.T.- Extra Tomato! Tomatoes And Prejudice-Austen I Heard It On The Tomato Vine-Marvin Gaye You're So Vine- Carly Simon Summertime (and the living is tomato)-Ella Fitzgerald LGBT-LGB+Tomato BY Jemia de Tomatoville 😏🍅🍅🍅🦋💕🙄 any other suggested ideas welcome, as i may bring out a book on the subject (but thankfully, probably won't!) and will, or not, call it Tomato Wrong!
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Aug 4, 2020
Aug 4, 2020 at 7:38 AM UTC
Tomato Wrong!
-something real. Something strong and sturdy, believable. I want to write words that are heavy with lightness and dark with their brightness, to draw on a page a life so unbelievably real, so inconceivably mine in creation I want to write -not just love. Not a ***** with a couple of drink-mangled bugs. I want to write about that feeling of blood churning and the warmth of emotion not physical feeling, to put into words the unwordable joy of being in the presence of not just anyone Anyone. Like the not-platonic-non-romantic affection that Rudy would not fail to hint at, that so-wanted kiss that Liesel gave, it wasn't so much the action as the meaning behind it. Like that itch on Death's ear when Liesel he came near, not to take her yet, but to steal her story, to live through it. To feel the words dance in his void, non-niceness, the infinite meanings and the power of phonic combinations. They allow even Death to live. I want to write like Zusak, like Rowling, like me. I want to write -the philosophies. The thoughts and wishes and wonders of a minority. I want to write about those opinions of those whose voices are too small and their souls beautifully lit up but unseen, their ideologies so unmistakably right but also naive and innocent, to stage their feelings from transition to transition their words to the wise I want to write -characters so flawed. Each with an inner splendor most radiant, but with their fields of starless black and heads that wander from this to that. I want to write lives and people so different, with not-so-good lives and not-so-normal features. People who, though lacking thereof, cliche the right things and believe in the wrong The wrong. Their thoughts and meanings about life and beyond, undesirable and judged but that is the human mentality, such as Hazel Grace felt about her casualties and Alaska Young wondered about the labyrinth's unending game. So standard at first, but then Gandalf came and Bilbo learned the differences between Hobbit and the untame. The reasons and purposes of life's grand living, through the eyes of those whose faces are shunned. Hermione wasn't just a bibliosiac. I want to write like Green, like Tolkien, like me. Alas, the clock, a stained moon, it darkens, and the prejudice of people as well as the pride, unfortunately Austen couldn't lessen so much. Stereotypes triumphantly sit on the throne with their Mary-Sue maids catering from head to toe. I can't barge in, object to the crowning, because today I admit it: my writing is dying.
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 1:39 PM UTC
I Want To Write
-something real. Something strong and sturdy, believable. I want to write words that are heavy with lightness and dark with their brightness, to draw on a page a life so unbelievably real, so inconceivably mine in creation I want to write -not just love. Not a ***** with a couple of drink-mangled bugs. I want to write about that feeling of blood churning and the warmth of emotion not physical feeling, to put into words the unwordable joy of being in the presence of not just anyone Anyone. Like the not-platonic-non-romantic affection that Rudy would not fail to hint at, that so-wanted kiss that Liesel gave, it wasn't so much the action as the meaning behind it. Like that itch on Death's ear when Liesel he came near, not to take her yet, but to steal her story, to live through it. To feel the words dance in his void, non-niceness, the infinite meanings and the power of phonic combinations. They allow even Death to live. I want to write like Zusak, like Rowling, like me. I want to write -the philosophies. The thoughts and wishes and wonders of a minority. I want to write about those opinions of those whose voices are too small and their souls beautifully lit up but unseen, their ideologies so unmistakably right but also naive and innocent, to stage their feelings from transition to transition their words to the wise I want to write -characters so flawed. Each with an inner splendor most radiant, but with their fields of starless black and heads that wander from this to that. I want to write lives and people so different, with not-so-good lives and not-so-normal features. People who, though lacking thereof, cliche the right things and believe in the wrong The wrong. Their thoughts and meanings about life and beyond, undesirable and judged but that is the human mentality, such as Hazel Grace felt about her casualties and Alaska Young wondered about the labyrinth's unending game. So standard at first, but then Gandalf came and Bilbo learned the differences between Hobbit and the untame. The reasons and purposes of life's grand living, through the eyes of those whose faces are shunned. Hermione wasn't just a bibliosiac. I want to write like Green, like Tolkien, like me. Alas, the clock, a stained moon, it darkens, and the prejudice of people as well as the pride, unfortunately Austen couldn't lessen so much. Stereotypes triumphantly sit on the throne with their Mary-Sue maids catering from head to toe. I can't barge in, object to the crowning, because today I admit it: my writing is dying.
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what we need is more banjo, more djembe, more thunder finger bass guitar -- what we need is less boredom -- less fear of failure, less fear of ******* less Jane Austen. what we need is the electric charge of neurons fire dancing like the night sky of the fourth of july, what we need is to learn the lesson of rivers and runners -- keep up the momentum what we need is more honey, watermelon, sweet potatoes, peanut butter, and coconut oil. more weirdos, more hippies, more punks, more rappers, more poets, if you have something to say we pretty much need you. we need more gin and less gender roles more sin and less slapstick more trees and trampolines and ties between you and I. we don't even need to be human we just need to be sustainable.
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Sep 24, 2015
Sep 24, 2015 at 8:10 PM UTC
sustainability
. i'm not an alcoholic, i'm an intermediating construct of blues... i think more about blank canvas i am to fill, than the next drink 'm about to have.... why give a dog's bollock's care concerning yourself with whst other other, proper, "sober", sensible people make of your?   i guess an inhibition of a lost verse...        in poetry we call that a quais take on a paragraph...    something akin to: the same worth of the worth of something worth losing... get the drift?!   Clive Owen... Denzel Washington, Brian Molko... now? breed me, a ******* hybrid Q your nag hammadi perfectionism! you trans-gender eucharist!    breed me an example to my specification! breed it! show me the Frankenstein! breed it!        i want wolf ***** "ingested" in women subjects! i, WANT, THEM!                you want the Frankenstein monster? first you need the mad doctor... you have me... cuffed and teasing!      i am,. dying to waake from what is death, and what is death assured, in the fork form of, shadow...    you, want, the monster... i am giving your the antithesis of the nameless caricature of what man's capability!             i need it, whatever "it", is...        i will not sleep till this "thing" is awake in the womb of my cognition... and i know of its wake!                  it's funeral a birth, it's birth, banshee screech!                  the failed Polish winged hussar charge against the Ukranian Cossack upriing, thick, in, mud...                         i have the desires to damage marking banknotes...       Shelley will always outlast the credibility of Austen...     Mary contra Jane...        horror... Frankenstein monsters... vampires...      werewolves... she's the third of the canon!   you don't do that! you can't do that!                 but you did, do that! there is a shadow of man, he dares to call history to contra the visage for the excuses of journalism...      not here... not now...   as a young boy, i dreamed of mingling the ***** of wolves, being impregnated in human females...         i guess, as a treat... to alleviate the existing product                  of down syndrome' what? what is science? if not the reinvigorated perpetuation of trans-categorical inquiry? p.s. when i drink? the last "thing" on my mind is the activity of drinking, notably, for socially unhinged barriers to be broken... i'm an anti-social drinker... i hate conversation, esp. when drinking... a ******* desert, when it comes to              the calorie intake!
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 9:52 PM UTC
confession
. i'm not an alcoholic, i'm an intermediating construct of blues... i think more about blank canvas i am to fill, than the next drink 'm about to have.... why give a dog's bollock's care concerning yourself with whst other other, proper, "sober", sensible people make of your?   i guess an inhibition of a lost verse...        in poetry we call that a quais take on a paragraph...    something akin to: the same worth of the worth of something worth losing... get the drift?!   Clive Owen... Denzel Washington, Brian Molko... now? breed me, a ******* hybrid Q your nag hammadi perfectionism! you trans-gender eucharist!    breed me an example to my specification! breed it! show me the Frankenstein! breed it!        i want wolf ***** "ingested" in women subjects! i, WANT, THEM!                you want the Frankenstein monster? first you need the mad doctor... you have me... cuffed and teasing!      i am,. dying to waake from what is death, and what is death assured, in the fork form of, shadow...    you, want, the monster... i am giving your the antithesis of the nameless caricature of what man's capability!             i need it, whatever "it", is...        i will not sleep till this "thing" is awake in the womb of my cognition... and i know of its wake!                  it's funeral a birth, it's birth, banshee screech!                  the failed Polish winged hussar charge against the Ukranian Cossack upriing, thick, in, mud...                         i have the desires to damage marking banknotes...       Shelley will always outlast the credibility of Austen...     Mary contra Jane...        horror... Frankenstein monsters... vampires...      werewolves... she's the third of the canon!   you don't do that! you can't do that!                 but you did, do that! there is a shadow of man, he dares to call history to contra the visage for the excuses of journalism...      not here... not now...   as a young boy, i dreamed of mingling the ***** of wolves, being impregnated in human females...         i guess, as a treat... to alleviate the existing product                  of down syndrome' what? what is science? if not the reinvigorated perpetuation of trans-categorical inquiry? p.s. when i drink? the last "thing" on my mind is the activity of drinking, notably, for socially unhinged barriers to be broken... i'm an anti-social drinker... i hate conversation, esp. when drinking... a ******* desert, when it comes to              the calorie intake!
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I'm taking a lovely trip to the historical Roman Baths there's hot springs and Roman temples I'll be following the Romans' path A mystical work of the gods (they thought) built between 60 - 70 AD illuminated by torchlight An evening tour maybe?! I'll pop to the house of Jane Austen she wrote of romance and love And 18th century style gardens where we'll take afternoon tea 'til we're stuffed
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
Roman Baths
I have no idea why that first line came to mind while I was indeed cleaning.  I've not read Austen in years, nor watched movies in months. (sonnet #MMMMMMMCDXLI) Jane Austen's drawing rooms I'd feign avail Me of, whose wainscot's polished oak is dense With import as the papered walls from hence Look smug; yes, take a turn in sheer betrayl Across those gleaming floors, dressed ah, to scale In empire-waist' floor-length is it pretense? And for the *** of tea I'll sip for sense, The dainty patterns on those walls' sweet bail. Don't ask me why.  In scrubbing bathrooms' tour, I could not settle on just whither to Until that note piqued languid thoughts as twere. I've been there so oft for discussions through Each novel, t'would be quite refreshing, poor As fiction's vain suggestion, if'd could do. 11Oct18a
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Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 4:13 PM UTC
Lady Catherine and Darcy, or Just Whom?
I’m the sort of girl who drinks tequila out of coffee cups and wears really skimpy dresses and goes out partying all night and kisses random boys in the dark But I’m also the kind of girl who wears her hair in a messy bun and reads Jane Austen when it rains and enjoys watching documentaries with my cat But I’m also the kind of girl who likes slamming beers and putting on team colors and cussing at the top of my lungs at sporting events But I'm also a *** who sleeps until noon and eats cold pizza because I don't wanna cook and contemplates what life would be like if I were dead But I'm not fitting in your boxes And you hate that And it confuses you And I like it Girls aren't one thing Or another. We're not the sun And the stars. And we're not the **** of the earth. I'm not Alpha and Omega I'm not Fire and Ice I'm not Beauty and Grace. I'm me And she's her. And we're not the same. I can chug a beer while reading Frost Or contemplate the meaning of life at a hockey game I can be Party Girl Sloppy Drunk Thoughtful Bookworm *Crazy ****** All of the above. Or none. I'm me.
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Dec 20, 2013
Dec 20, 2013 at 1:05 AM UTC
Lady
he won't write you poetry like neruda or bukowski. he won't ink your name underneath his skin nor will he cut his hair shorter for your mom. he won't stay up with you to read jane austen and hemingway. sometimes all you'll hear from his end of the line is snoring and you'll know he has fallen asleep. again. he won't take you to a romantic dinner every other night. he won't surprise you with a picnic basket on a tuesday afternoon to whisk you away to a spontaneous date on the beach. his hand will sweat sometimes. he will smell like cigarettes and the inside of a Starbucks. he will chew his food loudly and eat with his leg up. he will wake you up in the middle of the night just to tell you about a dream that woke him up. he will do this because he's afraid he'll forget in the morning. he will not get along with some of your friends, your dad will ask you "are you sure?" and your little brother will hate him. he will have acne and blackheads. he won't be around everytime you need him. he won't magically appear just in time to catch after you've tripped down the stairs. he won't be the guy you keep reading in novels about. he won't be the mysterious, poetry-writing, guitar-strumming, panty-dropping British guy you keep wishing you'd finally meet. surprisingly, despite of all of this, you will fall for him anyway. because even though you wanted a love story similar to those you found printed in pages, you will realize that they end after a dramatic moment in the airport, or a long romantic make-out session under the pouring rain, or after the one major problem is resolved. you will realize that nothing comes after for them. what happens after the romantic colors of sunset fade and the darkness takes over? you will realize that your own story is way better. because even though he talks too loud in libraries and hogs the blanket, he stays. he is there beside you at 2am when you suddenly wake up from a nightmare. you can feel his breath on the back of your neck and his arm around your waist. you can hear him whisper "i love you" and it will be dripping with honesty. and that is more than any fictional poetry-writing, guitar-strumming, panty-dropping British guy can ever do.
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Aug 26, 2013
Aug 26, 2013 at 12:23 AM UTC
he won't be a million things you've read about in novels
he won't write you poetry like neruda or bukowski. he won't ink your name underneath his skin nor will he cut his hair shorter for your mom. he won't stay up with you to read jane austen and hemingway. sometimes all you'll hear from his end of the line is snoring and you'll know he has fallen asleep. again. he won't take you to a romantic dinner every other night. he won't surprise you with a picnic basket on a tuesday afternoon to whisk you away to a spontaneous date on the beach. his hand will sweat sometimes. he will smell like cigarettes and the inside of a Starbucks. he will chew his food loudly and eat with his leg up. he will wake you up in the middle of the night just to tell you about a dream that woke him up. he will do this because he's afraid he'll forget in the morning. he will not get along with some of your friends, your dad will ask you "are you sure?" and your little brother will hate him. he will have acne and blackheads. he won't be around everytime you need him. he won't magically appear just in time to catch after you've tripped down the stairs. he won't be the guy you keep reading in novels about. he won't be the mysterious, poetry-writing, guitar-strumming, panty-dropping British guy you keep wishing you'd finally meet. surprisingly, despite of all of this, you will fall for him anyway. because even though you wanted a love story similar to those you found printed in pages, you will realize that they end after a dramatic moment in the airport, or a long romantic make-out session under the pouring rain, or after the one major problem is resolved. you will realize that nothing comes after for them. what happens after the romantic colors of sunset fade and the darkness takes over? you will realize that your own story is way better. because even though he talks too loud in libraries and hogs the blanket, he stays. he is there beside you at 2am when you suddenly wake up from a nightmare. you can feel his breath on the back of your neck and his arm around your waist. you can hear him whisper "i love you" and it will be dripping with honesty. and that is more than any fictional poetry-writing, guitar-strumming, panty-dropping British guy can ever do.
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January 21, 2014. One day this will just be another date. And 2014 will just be another year on a long timeline. And the music we thought was cool; will be old. And the music before today's generation; will be ancient. And the generations before that; will be unheard of. All the movies we thought were amazing, will be nothing but "classics" to them. All the books that Hemingway and Jane Austen wrote will cause them to have to think about where they've heard those names before. Time is not manipulative. You can not pause it. You can not rewind it, nor fast forward it. Yet, you can live in it. So, live for now, not then. c.r.k.
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
non-manipulative time
we are not safe all the markets could come crashing down it could happen any day now a blue origin rocket ship never making it to its final destination no man knows the hour or the day no man knoweth that bridget jones had her cigarettes with wine and mr darcy but i only have **** and a plastic one liter bottle of coke zero and no mr darcy to know the hour or the day helen fielding, enabler of the delusional, recycled happy endings but the plastic coke bottle isn't a jane austen novel and the chinese don't want our garbage anymore there is enough garbage in china already "there are 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the world" 8.8 million metric tons are chinese trash for the yangtze river to carry to the sea sometimes i feel just like garbage previously shipped to china trash and blue origin debris comeuppance for the yangtze river to carry to the sea endless oceans end same place plastic rocketship garbage begins
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Jul 13, 2018
Jul 13, 2018 at 5:47 AM UTC
garbage in the ocean; endless garbage in the ocean
My virginity a security blanket, I keep at the foot of my bed. It doesn’t shield me from loneliness, It’s purely for show. I imagine limbs tangled in that blanket. Our breathes mingling to create dream clouds. Legs combining like tree roots. A tentative hand and trembling lips, The tangible reality of my nerves. Sooth me with my favorite line from Jane Austen, Darling I just might love you. Hips grind against hips We’re two halves of a love poem. You, the undying love Me, the inevitable disappointment.
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Dec 14, 2011
Dec 14, 2011 at 1:42 AM UTC
keep it in your pants.
i told you, the most volatile substance, auto-combustion: let's see: the (ν / v'eh point) - touch on elocution, almost δ'eh                   point - but then the oddity: thievery - hence coupling θ                and            φ, well                     s                and             z (hardly an ß) might also make a hush sh sh sound for the eyes to spot with a şiş kebab being served (kebaab if you're talking africān - prolonged on dentistry's dire inspection) - no diacritics and many eccentricities - many accents, and a bowler hat at the royal Ascot - peacock feathers to a flutter ooh! firewood for the comedy scene - the / d or v? veering point or the deepened point? thyme - now that's a solitary τ (tau), well, many more examples! ha! thighs and thievery - theta cheese - thrombosis - that - now that's definitely armed with δ - thermometer - thick - in-between scotch fudge - thinking - throw - viably also famished - invariably also alphabetically accounted for as: thrice - and phosphorescent - pucker up now dear, no point calling jane austen right now, it's too late: better watch the jane austen book club, now that's a great romance movie - serious though, ah, there you have it, though rather thought - another eccentricity to curse periodic examples to rule: vogue in that though - feta cheese in that latter - no one dared to say: i vote, deer fur i am - imagine that said in Chelsea or Camden - you'd never get rid of those crack ******* junkies following you to Waterloo shouting: 'we've found Napoleon! we've found Napoleon! Napoleon! Napoleon!'
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Apr 9, 2016
Apr 9, 2016 at 1:50 PM UTC
the most volatile substance
i told you, the most volatile substance, auto-combustion: let's see: the (ν / v'eh point) - touch on elocution, almost δ'eh                   point - but then the oddity: thievery - hence coupling θ                and            φ, well                     s                and             z (hardly an ß) might also make a hush sh sh sound for the eyes to spot with a şiş kebab being served (kebaab if you're talking africān - prolonged on dentistry's dire inspection) - no diacritics and many eccentricities - many accents, and a bowler hat at the royal Ascot - peacock feathers to a flutter ooh! firewood for the comedy scene - the / d or v? veering point or the deepened point? thyme - now that's a solitary τ (tau), well, many more examples! ha! thighs and thievery - theta cheese - thrombosis - that - now that's definitely armed with δ - thermometer - thick - in-between scotch fudge - thinking - throw - viably also famished - invariably also alphabetically accounted for as: thrice - and phosphorescent - pucker up now dear, no point calling jane austen right now, it's too late: better watch the jane austen book club, now that's a great romance movie - serious though, ah, there you have it, though rather thought - another eccentricity to curse periodic examples to rule: vogue in that though - feta cheese in that latter - no one dared to say: i vote, deer fur i am - imagine that said in Chelsea or Camden - you'd never get rid of those crack ******* junkies following you to Waterloo shouting: 'we've found Napoleon! we've found Napoleon! Napoleon! Napoleon!'
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When the saints...go marching in Oh when the saints go marching in Oh how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in Of all the saints, I want to know The ones who write, I'd love to meet Oh how I'd love to meet all the authors When the saints go down the street E.A. Poe...even Thoreau Hemmingway would be ok Mailer and Andrew Taylor I'd learn to drink like a sailor when these saints come strolling in The Writers Guild...I'd be fulfilled Meeting writers long since dead Just think of what I'm learning All that knowledge in their heads I'd love to know, I'd love to know Is Bill Shakespeare who we think? Christie, Austen and Dickens This is where the whole plot thickens When the saints go marching in Is it the best, of all the books Is the bible just a tale Can you think of someone better When Melville speaks about a whale Capote sits, while Chaucer reads Bronte knits while Stoker bleeds Oh how I want to be in that number When these saints go marching in The list goes on, oh on and on There's just so many who've passed on It's a list that leads by example When these saints go marching in Oh when the saints go marching in When the saints go marching in How I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in
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Apr 1, 2013
Apr 1, 2013 at 11:20 PM UTC
When The Saints Go Marching In (Writers edition)