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don’t ask me how i like it cause i like it like that like lauren velez sticky sweet like honey amped like espresso diaphanous like weed smoke rock solid like ashford and simpson phosphorous like venus everlasting like ever-ready comical like cedric digging dogs like dmx diggedy diggedy like das efx between the sheets like…
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I. that sensation again the magnetic pull of ocean sediment settling on forming my skeleton the ghosts of those thrown overboard collecting melanin deposits from the atlantic’s floor sending it to me in waves giving my skeleton the skin it lacks monetaria moneta yielding up its protective shells giving me eyes of cowrie, the whites…
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. . . the Second of October, about 9 of the clock in the morning, Mr. Mavericks Negro woman came to my chamber window, and in her own Countrey language and tune sang very loud and shrill, going out to her, she used a great deal of respect toward me, and willingly would have expressed…
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Sometimes, the process of writing doesn’t require you to put pen to paper or click away at the keyboard. Sometimes, it involves sitting still on the balcony, looking at cars going where they’re going; looking at the sky and skyline; noticing the trees are an arcing line of shadow at night, scarier, almost, than the…
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Writing a novel is harder than I ever conceived! I’ve written and published books of three books of poetry but those books are full of personal poetry arranged chronologically. They’re linear rather than a cohesive whole like a novel. When I first got the idea of writing a novel, I spent years typing down whatever…
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summertime and the killing is easy pigs are jumping and mourning is nigh your daddy’s poor and your ma is not working so hush little baby don’t you die one of these mournings you’re gonna rise up thinking of spreading your left wing and uncasting the die but til that mourning the pigs can harm…
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Indigo indicates topaz retreat and I am summoned to a repast of blue treats A birthstone blue kind of night a sapphire surprise sky Nonviolent violet amid surrendering slivers of yellow I would claw my way back from ten thousand deaths just to witness these blues © 2018 Photo and text by…
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Very helpful! Unless you are Harper Lee, you’ll launch more than one book during your career. For the introvert, learn six ways to stick it out over the long haul. Source: The Introvert’s Guide to Launching a Book | Jane Friedman