Sayema

my general line that i send back to them is “hm. not sure i really believe in ‘cringe.’ it kind of sounds like you’re choosing to be embarrassed right now.”

Source: AJ+

The above quote was from one of Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Majnun’s) poetry that was recorded for Layla bint Mahdi (Layla) before his descent into madness // Story of Layla and Majnun (book) was written by a Persian poet "Nizami Ganjavi" who wrote this masterpiece based on a true story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Majnun) in the 7th century when Arabs defeated Persia and Ctesiphon was destroyed and Persians built Iraq. // Originally the book was published in 1484 AD

breakfasts from the last couple weeks…lots of apples and eggs and jam and yogurt

Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

(Benoit Demers)

[Text ID: “You look like you’ve eaten the sun, like / you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.”]

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