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somberous · 4 months
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Ocean Vuong, from “Reasons for Staying.” [ID in alt text]
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louisegluck · 10 months
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Ocean Vuong, from “The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica.” [ID in alt text]
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tendermimi · 5 months
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Ocean Vuong / Dear T
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Shane McCrae / To Make a Wound
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metamorphesque · 2 years
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   — Ocean Vuong, Reasons for Staying
[text ID: Because this mess I made I made with love.]
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andrumedus · 1 year
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I made it out by the skin of my griefs.
Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother; “Not Even”
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thebookofaphrodite · 1 year
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when ocean vuong wrote "in the body where everything has a price, i was a begger" and "even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared" and "because this is mess i made, i made with love" and "i'm sorry i keep saying how are you? when i really mean are you happy?" and "i am not a writer but a faucet underwater" and
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orpheuslament · 2 years
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Ocean Vuong, Dear T
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lifeinpoetry · 2 years
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Inside my head, the war is everywhere.
— Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother
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beingharsh · 1 year
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"Dear Peter" by Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother / "A Hymn to Childhood" by Li-Young Lee, Behind My Eyes
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wedarkacademia · 1 year
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I’m still afraid
of butterflies
how they move so much
like a heart
on fire.
Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother
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weltonboys · 2 years
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not even - ocean vuong
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louisegluck · 5 months
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Ocean Vuong, from  “Not Even.” [ID in alt text]
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facinaoris · 2 years
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Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong
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metamorphesque · 2 years
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— Ocean Vuong, Nothing
[text ID: I used to cry in a genre no one read.]
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andrumedus · 1 year
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Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother; “Reasons for Staying”
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therainbowfishy · 3 months
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All the books (except for picture books) I read in 2023!
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