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Lunch Poems

by Frank O'Hara

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""515 Madison Avenue
door to heaven? portal
stopped realities and eternal licentiousness
or at least the jungle of impossible eagerness
your marble is bronze and your lianas elevator cables
swinging from the myth of ascending" (Rhapsody, p.37)

I need to go to New York and experience the city through O'Hara's eyes soon :(

(Side note—a bit random but these poems make me think of Caroline Polachek's lyrics!! LOVE this)" — Jan 07, 2026 02:06PM

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

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Small Gods

by Terry Pratchett

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"I LOVE OM AND BRUTHA!!!

Okay but seriously this is such a perfect read to start 2026 with—it's absolutely hilarious and charming. I can't put it down!" — Jan 02, 2026 08:29PM

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“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

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“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

tags: life, loneliness, memory, perception, perspective, time

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“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

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“For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

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