I’m shook.
Whether it's a Boys Don't Cry drop or not is unsure at this stage. All we know is, something is playing.
WHATEVER YOU'VE GOT TO DO, FRANK.
Taco Bell or Katie Bell?
Spoiler alert: This post spoils some stuff.
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Here is the bright, young food co-op.
Here is the steeple. Here are the royals
not yet dead. Here are the Niggas With
Amethyst crystals. Shea butter
halos orbit half-shaved heads bowed
for vindication. Our mother patchouli
who art in the apothecary on Flatbush
hallowed be your Dutch wax dress.
Give us this day we light soy candles
for dead brothers. Give us this day we soak
our supremacy wounds.
Give us this day.
Give us fresh juice green
as avocados, and strength
to dismantle Fox news. We are marching
even in our sleep. We are reading
DuBois, getting high off the salt eaters.
Thy kingdom come to yoga. Thy will
be a black feminist Tumblr. Thy will is not
our struggle. Forgive us. We have gathered
to learn to pronounce freedom.
Procession body roll, communion oysters
with prosecco. Roses for our waist beads.
We have moved away from suburbia.
Now we live on Saturn.
We don’t pray anymore
the way our parents taught us.
Instead we stack our arms
with wood and music
hatches from our tongue rings.
Hymns for the dead, hookahs for
the almost-dead. Praise our half-lives.
Our bodies break but we still sage them.
We wrote the good book: instructions
for building new worlds.
Lead us not into white neighborhoods.
Deliver us from microaggressions.
Blessed are we who mourn, we who
are a blood built on a hill of embers.
We no mail-order hipster black wife.
We just trying to text our moms.
We are what we eat, leafy and anointed.
We are who we serve: banquets and bouquets
forever, foreverever, foreverever.
REG
Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her second collection, There Are More Beautiful things than Beyonce, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in February 2017. Morgan’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in numerous publications, as well as anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter (Argos Books), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books), and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow, Morgan lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn, NY. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One, co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico, and with poet and performer Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. www.morgan-parker.com
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"So in a mimosa-drunk state I saddled up to my newly divorced aunt and showed her how to Tinder. Joe [my now-boyfriend] popped up and she said, 'Can I swipe him for you? He's handsome.' After one year of dating, he's moving in with me and my cats."
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For those times you need something to remind you that everything will be okay.
Michelle Obama's speech at this year's Democratic National Convention wasn't just about politics. This quote is about dealing with all bullies, regardless of the situation.
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In 2014, Jim Carrey gave the commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management. It's all real as hell, but this line in particular is really important for anyone going through a hard time: "And when I say, 'Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you', I really don’t know if that’s true. I’m just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way."
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In 2005, David Foster Wallace gave a commencement address at Kenyon College. This speech was later published as an essay and as a book titled This Is Water. If you listen to the address from beginning to end, you'll come to understand that the ability of the old, wise fish to be aware of the water in which he swims is a metaphor for the conscious, self-aware, mindful existence Wallace is trying to encourage.
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When Tavi Gevinson was 16, she gave a TED Talk, "A Teen Just Trying to Figure It Out". The talk is about a lot of things. It's about what it means to be a feminist, a teenage girl, and the complex struggle of being both at the same time. She ends the talk with the solid advice to "just be Stevie Nicks" because, according to Tavi, she is all things.
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Brazil could eat the (contiguous) United States whole.
“The mixer ripped off his skin and you could see his muscles.”
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"There was a time when I was a young line cook, unaware of the ways of the industrial stove, and was opening up by myself one morning. I had the brilliant idea of turning on all 10 burners at once to then light the pilot lights all at once. Not realising it would take me 30 seconds or so to find a lighter, the gas had plenty of time to gather in the atmosphere, and then BOOM! Largest ball of fire I've ever seen had exploded in my face. I didn't have eye brows for a week."
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The equestrian events could use more top hats.
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The 1908 Summer Olympics in London
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The purrfect cap to your week.
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Roger Ebert’s shoes have finally been filled.
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Ryan LOVES movies.
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An inspiring, badass short story in photos.
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the men's 100-meter semifinal on day nine of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
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Simone Biles of the United States is congratulated by team coordinator Marta Karolyi after winning the gold medal in the women's vault.
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Boats of the men's 470 class sail back to shore after competing on day nine of the Olympics.
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The Bahamas' Shaunae Miller dives across the finish line to win the women's 400-meter final.
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Gemma Beadsworth of Australia is dunked during the women's water polo qualification match between Australia and Brazil.
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Nikki Hamblin (left) of New Zealand stops during the race to help fellow competitor Abbey D'Agostino of the US after D'Agostino suffered an injury.
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Latvia's Anastasija Grigorjeva (left) and Japan's Risako Kawai compete during the women's wrestling freestyle 63-kilogram competition.
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United States silver medal winner Nia Ali poses with her 15-month-old son Titus after the women's 100-meter hurdles final.
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A Ukrainian serviceman at his position on the front line near Donetsk, Ukraine.
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A critical look at the Olympics, with a heavy side of human interest. Enjoy!
"Declaring this picture as ‘THE shot of the games so far,’ Mashable has a put together a great profile on the Olympics photographer who captured this iconic image. The interview gives a unique behind-the-scene perspective from someone granted access to what’s arguably the most exciting location on the planet." —Gabriel H. Sanchez, photo essay editor, BuzzFeed
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"Birte's work is subtle, allowing this little-understood culture speak for itself. The images center on the humanity of the subject - their personalities, celebrations and the off-moments of the day." —Kate Bubacz, senior photo editor, BuzzFeed News
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"Amid the onslaught of pictures captured at the 2016 Rio Olympics, CBS News shines a spotlight on the unsung hero of the games: the photographers behind the camera whose precise judgment in framing and timing brings the intensity of the Olympics to your doorstep. Here, CBS chats with sports photographer Howard Schatz about his work, which is part of a brilliant exhibition of sports photography on view at New York’s Brooklyn Museum." —GHS
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"Live broadcast in the toilet facilities… Long lines through security checks… Pool cleaners… Wires, wires, and more wires. This collection by Reuters photographers shows those of us who aren’t in Rio what goes on behind Brazil’s games — beyond Usain Bolt’s big grin to the finish and those pools that turned green. And don’t you just wish you were in all of that action? (I know I do!)"
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