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I just realized that, technically, the Fared Shafinury soundcloud account is following my soundcloud account, and now I am dreaming of a fantasy world where Fared Shafinury likes my poetry.
10 points to anyone who can find a way to make this not a fantasy (does he even like any poetry not by Hafiz?).
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- #i have a big crush on his music
- #fared shafinury
- #embarassing myself
- #this is why i don't drink i am like this naturally
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Legs
span over you:
bridge.The river is just a river,
hurried water, winding
hundreds of feet below
your body.Flesh over metal, steel
on skin, the impatient itch
of rust, this world
is not firm. The bedcracks.
A body disappears
into smoke. The heart:a low, small thing,
not even good
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I am realizing something about myself: I am prolific.
I am realizing this because I am trying to ‘catch up’ on my soundcloud recordings of poems and feeling overwhelmed because I have already written so many - not counting all the material I have from before tumblr/off the blog. When I first started I had thought I’d need to alternate with poems-by-professionals in order to have enough material.
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“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.” — Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via tabularasae)(via tabularasae)
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One day we’ll make a nice translation of this, but in the meantime, if you don’t understand Arabic, just listen to his voice. Gentle, gentle.
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you seem soft and gentle, kind heart, loving soul. warmth, a lot of warmth and noor/light surrounds you. you seem like someone you can sit with in ease and not need to converse out loud, like you would just get it. comforting, ,your existence feels comforting.
I don’t know if I am warm or if my warmth is brought out by gentle people like you, but I feel very warm/blushing right now. Also - your message describes what I get from you/your tumblr, in addition to a really welcome/necessary intensity and honesty. I don’t know if it is show-offy to share this publicly or not, but I want to save this message, so I will. Hugs and tea and comforting silences.
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I do wonder sometimes how I seem to people who only know me through tumblr. I feel it exaggerates certain flaws and hides others.
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Porcupine Woman
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Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham
A 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police.
Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night.
The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body.
The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police.
Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm.
Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered “significant witnesses”.
In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem’s daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a “widely respected member of the community” and “much-loved”.
(via seinedoll)
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found this gem in the #fuckthefriendzone tag
im going to kill myself
no
Can someone PLEASE get whoever created this monstrosity for using Allie Brosh’s work a) without accreditation and b) for something so, so, wrong?
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