such a bummer!

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Tony Tost

Richard Siken, Boot Theory // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // astralcorbozo on TikTok // Mary Herbert, A Long Time in the Desert // Dan Deacon, When I Was Done Dying

SCREAM 2, 1997 — directed by Wes Craven

I don’t recommend it

“this is serious, bev.” she’s selling it well: it sounds serious. she certainly looks serious about it, which isn’t unimpressive: see, she’s got a paper party hat in one hand, a lightly burned funfetti cupcake in the other. bonnie shrugs. “i’m not used to that oven.” (yeah, it like, works.) “how old are you? oh, there’s candles; i’ve got candles. upstairs. not a bunch, but the ones with numbers on them? i just bought a box like, two weeks ago.” she holds out her hands instead of moving closer, offering up the meager gift. wincing at the cupcake. “you don’t have to eat that.” she’s a lot of things, but she isn’t unreasonable. usually. “but you do have to wear the hat.” / @jrbev​

He takes an excessively large bite of the cupcake. To him, it is great. It could be sprinkled with salt instead of, you know, sprinkles and he’d think it was good because Bonnie made it for him. He gives her a thumbs up, still chewing.

Mary Oliver, from Dogfish in “Dream Work”

     ‘ do you need some water? ’ 

He can feel his chest heaving. He closes his mouth and lets his breath shake out through his nostrils in an attempt to steady it. She doesn’t look scared of him. She just looks concerned. And that’s familiar, that’s a state he’s used to evoking in others. His breathing softens slightly. He tries not to linger on the recognition of others’ concern being a kind of comfort to him, but the idea has stuck and his breathing quickens again—faster.

— Mary Oliver, from section 4 of “The Return,” What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems (Da Capo Press, 2002)

“spear” elizabeth acevedo // “atonement” dir. joe wright // “go home” julien baker

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