Quotes added on Sunday, May 18 2014




I could feel my insides sink. My knees, too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me eating by myself at a famous cafe in the city. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything.

 


This quote does not exist.
I have a book in which I am writing poems I find beautiful.
Among the pages already are things akin to "It May Not Always Be So; And I Say" (e.e. cummings),
"Opportunity" (Edward Rowland Sill),
and an excerpt from "Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird" (Wallace Stevens).

And though I may delete this quote later,
I ask that if any of you are poetry fans
Or have even just one poem that sits prettily in your heart
Write me a comment below
For I always look to broaden my taste of poetry

Thank you in advance.

#4matzROverratedxx



Ten Responses to the Phrase 'MAN UP'
1. F
ûck you.
2. If you want to question my masculinity, like a schoolyard circle of curses, like a swordfight with lightsaber erections, save your breath. Because contrary to what you may believe, not every problem can be solved by “growing a pair.” You can’t arm-wrestle your way out of chemical depression. The CEO of the company that just laid you off does not care how much you bench. And I promise, there is no lite b
êer in the universe full-bodied enough to make you love yourself.
3. Man up? Oh that’s that new superhero, right? Mild-mannered supplement salesman Mark Manstrong says the magic words “MAN UP,” and then transforms into THE FIVE O’CLOCK SHADOW, the massively-muscled, deep-voiced, leather-duster-wearing super-man who defends the world from, I don’t know, feelings. 4. Of course. Why fight to remove our chains, when we can simply compare their lengths? Why step outside the box, when the box has these bad-
âss flame decals on it? We men are cigarettes: dangerous, and poisonous, and stupid. 5. You ever notice how nobody ever says “woman up?” They just imply it. Because women and the women's movement figured out a long time ago that being directly ordered around by commercials, magazines and music is dehumanizing. When will men figure that out?
6. The phrase “Man Up” suggests that competence and perseverance are uniquely masculine traits. That women—not to mention any man who doesn’t eat steak, drive a pickup truck, have lots of s
êx with women—are nothing more than background characters, comic relief, props. More than anything, though, it suggests that to be yourself—whether you, wear skinny jeans, listen to Lady Gaga, rock a little eyeliner, drink some other brand of light bêer, or write poetry—will cost you.
7. How many boys have to kill themselves before this country acknowledges the problem? How many women have to be assaulted? How many trans people have to be murdered? We teach boys how to wear the skin of a man, but we also teach them how to raise that skin like a flag and draw blood for it.
8. Boy babies get blue socks. Girl babies get pink socks. What about purple? What about orange, yellow, chartreuse, cerulean, black, tie-dyed, buffalo plaid, rainbow…
9. I want to be free, to express myself. Man up. I want to have meaningful, emotional relationships with my brothers. Man up. I want to be weak sometimes. Man up. I want to be strong in a way that isn’t about physical power or dominance. Man up. I want to talk to my son about something other than sports. Man up. I want to be who I am. Man up.
10. No.
--- Guante, Ten Responses to the Phrase 'Man Up'

 

 


lets makeout with poprocks in our mouth ☻
nobody will love a broken girl..

....
it happens just once in a while
but i do know have the capability to love myself
i love myself when i am in my room drawing or writing
i love myself when i'm the only one home & can blast my music as loud as i want. i love myself when i study hard and the work pays off and i get a good grade.
i love myself when i can finally play a song i've been working on on an instrument
i love myself most when i am alone.
but people;
people, more often than not,
find a way to crash my party
someway, somehow.


-g.j.
I have the love of my life in my heart. And I would never want to change that.
This quote does not exist.
I ain't livin the life I'm livin the dream.
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