Daily Archives: February 19, 2013

Dirty work

For Claudia The sainted stained with earth, the poets soaked in ink and the artists dripping color who do not paint rainbows but wear them, and the potters with clay under their fingernails; they all breathe a working vital as what … Continue reading

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Originally posted on A Prayer Like Gravity:
Words I found on my lips upon waking: “Do you know what it would look like,this portentousness, this guild of lost flowers?” A passage that struck me later in the day while reading…

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first-world problem

you pay a company to tell you what to eat to lose yourself in fractions adding up to the mass of an 8-year-old, because other companies sell food in boxes easy to cook, but hard on arteries, but few sell discrimination … Continue reading

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