Running Errands Like Kurt Vonnegut

It matters because I gave it meaning bitch

Chen Chen, from "weep ode #99"

‘Flowering Trees of the Orient’ (1921).

Garden catalogue from A. E Wohlert, the Garden Nurseries.

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

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Hawaii became the first state legislature to call for permanent ceasefire in Gaza

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In 24-1 Vote, Hawaii State Senate Demands Permanent Cease-Fire in Gaza

"Hawaii can be proud of its leadership role in carrying the movement to force an immediate, permanent cease-fire in Gaza to the 'state' leve

“If you will grant me one vivid morning, I can chain it to me for fifty years.”

— William Stafford, from Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems, eds. Vincent Wixon and Paul Merchant (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014)

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018) directed by Heperi Mita

“I ask myself what I will do here on earth with this worthless, defiant body. And I hear my body answer: —What will I do with this spark that believed itself the sun and this breath that believed itself the wind?”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XXXII”  (via futurefae)

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance