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Talya Salman
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“The names scared us. How is it that a thing gets caught inside a name
and then never comes out again? Everything becomes bigger when it’s
named, but we didn’t know that then; that was why we played. And we said,
“Isn’t this a good game.”
―
and then never comes out again? Everything becomes bigger when it’s
named, but we didn’t know that then; that was why we played. And we said,
“Isn’t this a good game.”
―
“Are you?” he asks. “Happy?”
I lift a shoulder. “I could be happier, I guess. Couldn’t we all?”
― Funny You Should Ask
I lift a shoulder. “I could be happier, I guess. Couldn’t we all?”
― Funny You Should Ask
“to the whore who took my poems
some say we should keep personal remorse from the
poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus:
12 poems gone and I don’t keep carbons and you have
my
paintings too, my best ones; it’s stifling:
are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?
why didn’t you take my money? they usually do
from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.
next time take my left arm or a fifty
but not my poems:
I’m not Shakespeare
but sometimes simply
there won’t be any more, abstract or otherwise;
there’ll always be money and whores and drunkards
down to the last bomb,
but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.”
― Essential Bukowski: Poetry
some say we should keep personal remorse from the
poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus:
12 poems gone and I don’t keep carbons and you have
my
paintings too, my best ones; it’s stifling:
are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?
why didn’t you take my money? they usually do
from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.
next time take my left arm or a fifty
but not my poems:
I’m not Shakespeare
but sometimes simply
there won’t be any more, abstract or otherwise;
there’ll always be money and whores and drunkards
down to the last bomb,
but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.”
― Essential Bukowski: Poetry
“To read is to cover one’s face, to write is to show it.”
― Women
― Women
“By summer I have stopped communicating with Finn. My life expands
without her in it. My head begins to clear. The sun is magnificent; it wakes
me early, and in the sun, I change. I am light and energetic. My days are
spent in my backyard reading books of nonfiction. I find solace in
devastating memoirs (miscarriages, natural disasters, death, and addiction).
When I tell people what I’m reading, people who read fiction and not
memoirs, they’re usually appalled at the storyline. How is that fun for you?
they ask. I read for hours, drinking coffee and eating toast and sweating
from the brilliant sun.”
― Women
without her in it. My head begins to clear. The sun is magnificent; it wakes
me early, and in the sun, I change. I am light and energetic. My days are
spent in my backyard reading books of nonfiction. I find solace in
devastating memoirs (miscarriages, natural disasters, death, and addiction).
When I tell people what I’m reading, people who read fiction and not
memoirs, they’re usually appalled at the storyline. How is that fun for you?
they ask. I read for hours, drinking coffee and eating toast and sweating
from the brilliant sun.”
― Women
Talya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Talya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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299 friends
799 books
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4,989 friends
176 books
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2 friends
277 books
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910 friends
210 books
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29 friends
15 books
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2 friends
82 books
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1 friend
297 books
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