Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays And Poetry

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

sometimes person

i wonder if maybe manipulation is a natural part of my communication style

just another language i learned which although lacking in malice is no less unkind

short lived loves living in storage stacked ceiling-high

but I don't mind the temporary nature of the things i feed my heart

i play part-time partner particularly enthusiastically

let me treat you right for a moment cuz a moment is all I've ever had

being a sometimes person means I'm good at temporary

tempestuous trysts and dangerous dalliances keep killing my kindness

causing cracks in cold facades

features flitting from face to face fighting for freedom from fear, frustration, and longing

life, love, hard liquor and soft luxury

i replace all of these things with the poetic royal you

you the reader

you the scorned lover let down lightly alongside leather combat boots

bringing butchered beasts and(broadly speaking) bristly sing-song to my step

several lovers stated separately something which seriously stuck to this day

i am uncomplicated

don't you dare deny my defects

I'll disregard the defiance decisively for now

but between not noticing the never evers and saying something so suspiciously off base

believe me it's better to be brought along abreast against the brown feathers of tomorrow then brought beating and bawling from below to yesterday

an ode to an adderall found between crumpled bedsheets

hello my beloved

I've been thinking about you you know

what a chance

meeting like this

me here

you here

us here together

lets get you out of there

i understand what it's like to be forgotten

let me take care of you

i actually really enjoy when people leave random objects in art galleries and people start treating them as if they're art. I think it puts people into a headspace where they start looking at normal objects differently and its an opportunity for them to realize that they can do this too outside of a gallery setting. You're not dumb or tricked for seeing something on the floor of a gallery and trying to figure it out or appreciating it as an art object. The world is full of beautiful and interesting objects even some random garbage on the street is worthy of that same level of examination. Theres art everywhere if you're primed to see it.

— nipuna (via @nipsyyy)

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving