it's been heaven knowing you

Poem by Ron Padgett

I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart— you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open. ]

An Interview with Richard Siken

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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure

Canon A-1 | 50mm f1.8 Kodak Gold 200

Altai Mountains by Sergio

Crush by Ada Limón

Maggie Smith, “Wild”

When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven, Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.

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Flowering Wave