first poem i loved and kept with me as a ripe 7th grader. read over and over to the point where it plays in my head, little things will remind me of it - foggy nights in the city or the ocean in winter or pondering my own mortality - and lines come flowing back
others stuck in my noggin include style by charles bukowski and the sunflower sutra by allen ginsberg. at this point i can probably recite a good number of billy collins works bc ive listened to the recorded album "the best cigarette" approximately 500 times
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i recommend it. i find it comforting to recite a poem i really like! i have âhaving a coke with youâ by frank oâhara memorized and itâs satisfying to hear its sonorous curves.
Feb 28, 2025
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i had a poetry professor a while back who LOVED found poetry and got me into the habit of writing down any phrase that i encounter and found funny or interesting or profound or wtv and anyway it's my most prized possession. after you start collecting quotes and phrases and words they line up in your notes app and it makes a beautiful profound collage of your life, currently the one in my phone is almost 200 lines long, but here are the first 30 or so lines for reference:
i was outside the matrix with watercolor at list
why is there rice? i didnât eat rice??
i didnât sell out i bought it
it was one oâclock forever
iâve done seen rhode island
bring back the swan
wide eyed babe
youâre gonna carry that weight
ambiguous sentences
sun glitter
i have sick ambiance in my room bruh
and im like wait thatâs the roofie
this must be what itâs like to have a child thatâs stupid
free prometheus
is the wind taking my cigarette
i like his name, i will remember his name
i am trumps little baby boy
forrest into lumber farm
bad things come in threes so you should break a match
one of the worst parts of the pig farm
i didnât know killing children was a jew thing
i love your opinions they remind me of state media
Dec 24, 2024
I return to this poem every 3 months or so, in the same way you put on an old favorite song that you woke up with stuck in your head and youâve got to listen to it just to enjoy it all over again. I circle back to this poem always.
I think my favorite lines are:
why shouldnât
something
I have always
known be the
very best there
is. I love
you from my
childhood,
Mar 3, 2024
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first photo in my camera roll, saved from tumblr in 2012. absolute classic and i still think of this all the time
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