Alien Space Princess

from The Agony of Intimacy by Jeanette Winterson, published in Granta

poetry and van gogh

Anaïs Nin, Shane Neilson, Marin Sorescu, Ocean Vuong, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Vincent van Gogh

Megadeth or Metallica || Mötley Crüe or KISS || Joe Satriani or Steve Vai || Slaughter or Firehouse || L.A. Guns or Faster Pussycat || Ratt or Skid Row || Def Leppard or Iron Maiden || Oasis or The Stone Roses || The Who or Cream || Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin || Bob Dylan or Simon & Garfunkel || The Doors or The Rolling Stones || The Sex Pistols or The Stooges || Pearl Jam or Nirvana || Soundgarden or Alice in Chains || Black Sabbath or Judas Priest || Van Halen or Y&T || Whitesnake or Alcatrazz || Cinderella or Quiet Riot || Aerosmith or Bon Jovi || AC/DC or Guns N' Roses || Poison or Warrant || Sammy Hagar or David Lee Roth || David Bowie or T.Rex || Queen or The Beatles || Elton John or Rod Stewart || Michael Jackson or George Michael || Pink Floyd or Rush || Electric Light Orchestra or Fleetwood Mac || Creedence Clearwater Revival or Lynyrd Skynyrd || Damn Yankees or Bad Company || Styx or Genesis || Journey or Foreigner || Rammstein or Scorpions || Hanoi Rocks or Pretty Boy Floyd || Steelheart or White Lion

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People graffitid your mum jokes on the walls of Pompeii

Junior monks wrote complaints into their copied manuscripts

The Aboriginal Australians passed down 10,000 year old oral histories in campfire stories

Children played with little rolling ox toys in Mughal India

Indigenous Americans hurled balls around courts in games like ones we still play

Bored Roman soldiers carved dicks on Hadrian's wall

Vikings climbed to very high places in distant countries just to carve their names there

Women in ancient Egypt sang songs making fun of their husbands while they worked

Victorian schoolgirls embroidered their hatred of stitching into their samplers

everyone: “oh no coronavirus :((((“