first poem i loved and kept with me as a ripe 7th grader. read over and over to the point where it plays in my head, little things will remind me of it - foggy nights in the city or the ocean in winter or pondering my own mortality - and lines come flowing back
others stuck in my noggin include style by charles bukowski and the sunflower sutra by allen ginsberg. at this point i can probably recite a good number of billy collins works bc ive listened to the recorded album "the best cigarette" approximately 500 times
Jun 5, 2024
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ANYTHING by whitman but ESPECIALLY song of myself (long but worth it, the final part is so good), crossing brooklyn ferry, hours continuing long, and the untold want. oh and also the love song of j alfred prufrock by by t.s. eliot is NOT overrated and is in fact THAT GOOD
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i recommend it. i find it comforting to recite a poem i really like! i have āhaving a coke with youā by frank oāhara memorized and itās satisfying to hear its sonorous curves.
Feb 28, 2025
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i had a poetry professor a while back who LOVED found poetry and got me into the habit of writing down any phrase that i encounter and found funny or interesting or profound or wtv and anyway it's my most prized possession. after you start collecting quotes and phrases and words they line up in your notes app and it makes a beautiful profound collage of your life, currently the one in my phone is almost 200 lines long, but here are the first 30 or so lines for reference:
i was outside the matrix with watercolor at list
why is there rice? i didnāt eat rice??
i didnāt sell out i bought it
it was one oāclock forever
iāve done seen rhode island
bring back the swan
wide eyed babe
youāre gonna carry that weight
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sun glitter
i have sick ambiance in my room bruh
and im like wait thatās the roofie
this must be what itās like to have a child thatās stupid
free prometheus
is the wind taking my cigarette
i like his name, i will remember his name
i am trumps little baby boy
forrest into lumber farm
bad things come in threes so you should break a match
one of the worst parts of the pig farm
i didnāt know killing children was a jew thing
i love your opinions they remind me of state media
Dec 24, 2024
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i listen to this album and after nearly every song think āthis is literally the best song everā
the starting trio of freak/tin man/steamroller is so incredible
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first photo in my camera roll, saved from tumblr in 2012. absolute classic and i still think of this all the time
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