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𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧. 𝐌𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠!!

firstfullmoon:

A hijacked plane in 1969 lands in Damascus. This means a plane was unable to fly away, to Tel Aviv. I read about the incident in the autobiography of Leila Khaled. This book is out of print. This means it is difficult to find her first hand account in text though much is written about her. I wanted to write a poem about Leila: a hero, or terrorist, depending on who you ask. Dareen is the name of a woman, who lives under house arrest. This means she is unable to leave her home. Israeli officials categorize her as a threat, she calls herself a poet. The speaker is an important part of a poem. A rule of poetry, try not to let the reader out of a poem. At this point I will disobey and say you are free to go if you choose. Choice is a complicated part of describing Palestinian heroes or terrorists. The Israeli and Palestinian conflict is studied in class. The word conflict in English, defined as “a serious disagreement”.ALT
If you are still here, doesn’t that sound fair? Two sides, equally at fault, each making a choice. Three  generations later, I still do not know how to explain choices. A place was left behind. A place I have never seen. This means I still do not know how to write myself into existence. Three boys form a tributary of blood, on a beach in Gaza, elsewhere a contained border, a family of bones, without broth; these will be described as incidents. The difference between violence and incidents in a conflict, depends on the speaker. What word would you choose to begin? Nakba translates as “Catastrophe”. Ha’atzmaut, “Independence”. Though Hebrew and Arabic share yawm or yohm, for day. Alan Dershowitz and other Israeli historians argue it was a choice of Palestinians to leave the land in 1948. Argue, a word used when choosing an explanation about why things are.ALT
History is a collection of choices. I have also inherited memories. Pink prayer beads on the counter. Creases in white fabric, black threads embroidering live skin. Memories do not always obey the lines of history’s choices. My grandfather fled the land when he was eight years old, leaving his mother at home. This means he never saw her again. Many will continue to argue leaving and never returning is a choice, not a violence. A poem, depending on the speaker, an act of incitement to violence. Concrete left in the throats of children, a mother’s final glance, a segregated beach, a segregated sun; it is all just a great misunderstanding, a conflict. I have changed my mind. I am leaving you and this poem behind. A choice, I choose, this time.ALT

Zaina Alsous, “Leave”

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Terry knew.

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urbanxdivinity:

sleep

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haleyincarnate:

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And what is growing up if not being fearful of the future, but running head on into it anyway?

I am still afraid, but I barrel into fate with gritted teeth. Every experience brings a lesson, every passing day and night just a page turned in my story.

We are all novels begging to be written.

Collage from my poetry collection “Winterbrook”, out 11/11.

goldcoasthoney:

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catsofyore:

Handwoven linen curtain with a pattern of green vines and black birds moving vertically up the curtain in rows. And the bottom of this scene of birds rising up is a wide red band with a repeating pattern of unhappy cats looking upward, as if watching the birds get away while powerless to stop them.ALT

Super cute curtains with cat and bird pattern! 1910. Source.

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vixensofdeath:

being manic is the best yet the worst. I feel like I’m on drugs and I can do anything. my mind races and my world zooms by. and even when I think about dying it’s not depressing. this time it’s thrilling and exciting to me. everything- no matter how bad it is, I am constantly over amped. but, after the few good times, I feel horrible. I just want to come down but I can’t. I’m wide awake and not hungry and I want to do so many bad things to me and others.

conscious-pisces:

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

—Vincent Van Gogh

wolftyla:

when things really hurt you, they make you quiet.

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fucklife101:

Mental illness is the most isolating thing in the world. You’re completely on your own in a black sea of nothing but pain.

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derangedrhythms:

November, slaughter month, the month of blood.

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from ‘The Year I Was Born: the day by day chronicle of events in the year of your birth’

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all my thoughts are consumed by suicide. i keep picturing shooting myself. all i can picture right now is holding a gun to my head.. i cant picture anything past that but its more than what i’ve been able to picture in the past. usually i’ve never been able to picture it. but everything’s getting so bad it’s getting pretty easy. it’s all i can think about. i physically cannot think of anything else except not being alive. it would make everything so much easier and better. i’m so tired. 15 years.. that’s how long i’ve been having these thoughts. not good enough, too slow, too stupid, no friends, no plans, nothing. i have nothing. I Am Nothing. i wish it would all end already. there is nothing worth being alive for. like my dad said i don’t do anything. there’s nothing worthy of my life. i am wasting space, taking up space. not providing use for anything. just a blob. so who gives a fuck if i die. i certainly don’t. and im tired of acting like i do just to appease others. fuck anyone’s feelings except mine. i don’t care about anyone’s sadness pain or grief. because what the fuck about mine. nobody is concerning themselves with mine so i won’t be concerned with theirs in the wake of my death. fuck off.

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