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Sunday 7 September 2014

Those nights

                        Those nights

Summer! 
Summer! Summer!
Summer is wrapping up, winding down, slipping out of our finger tips. 

( picture by Petra Collins)

But I remember those nights, the blazing sun gave me no hope, the heat didn't appeal to me. The moon glazed over the world, the shadow swaddled me like an innocent child discovering the whole universe.


(does not belong to me)



(does not belong to me)

Days spent fondling with loneliness, 
nights spent infatuated with security. Long drives with the sky flooding with diamonds! Light pollution the enemy no where in site. The sky was screaming to me, it enchanted me with its true beauty.

(dose not belong to me)

    
At first it was overwhelming, I let my arm dance with the wind, the faster the car went the more enchanting it was. The song was playing "1979" by Smashing Pumpkin, his voice ran through me like electricity. My arm, my head my whole body was being wrapped by the wind, it was...
Beautiful
(does not belong to me)



(still from Palo Alto) 
I wanted to catch all the beauty at once but it wouldn't fit in my small palms. Its ways too precise to keep, to fragile to hold. All we can do is admire it which is a beautiful privilege!


"My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remembered to relax, and try not to hold on to it. Then it flows through me like rain and I cant feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life"        
Lester Burnham "American Beauty"


(picture belongs to Petra Collins)

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Saturday 28 June 2014

mourning youth

                      Mourning Youth


Its that time of year 
The gowns, The speeches, The valedictorian
The Goodbyes
to the superficial outline of life that cushions you from your youth to the facade of adulthood.


What happens to the girls you see everyday in the hallway the girls with the synchronize walking?
"Shoulders back, chin up"
Is the everyday motto they drill into their heads.


What happens to the boys who are hypnotized to the field
whose lives revolve around the neon numbers of the     school score board?

What happens to the kids whose eyes are seduced by the words on a page? The film geeks(me)? The outsiders?
 What happens? 
                          What Happens.

25 years later. Heather the head of the clique with no one to up show. all feelings drained. Her whole body numb and exhausted from trying to get the love (or something close)of her husband. No one to impress but the mail man every morning after her third downing of Prozac.

What happens!

Today. This is what I fear the nothingness of life after that superficial outline of life that cushions ME from my youth to the fasad of adulthood.


Maybe I'm overacting but the static of the world, my life is eating me up.
I'm I living or just existing? 

So answer me this..


What Happens?  



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Friday 20 June 2014

cultural norms

cultural norms


If a guy touches you with out consent don't say anything 
"Its normal"
If a guy calls you a slut don't say anything 
"Its normal"
The world makes these degrading
things the norm.



In this world A girls clothing decides if they  deserve your respect or not.
The persons thought overpowers your feelings and needs to be treated like a human with dignity.
We teach women to cover up our bodies rather than teaching  humans to cover up there disgusting thoughts.
In  the news people focus on what a girls wearing while being sexually harassed rather than focusing on the persons wrongs who harassed them.

People are brain washed to think that they have the right to police some ones body, to voice their wrong and victim blaming thoughts. After a survey over 65% of people said that "if dressed provocatively  woman  deserved to be attacked or raped"

Correction!
No one deserve's to be rape it is the rapist fault.

We need to rebel against these cultural norms. Fight the way society thinks is right because frankly its wrong and atrocious. 


Remember this!

"Ask me, not my clothes. My dress might say 'yes' but I say NO!
  


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Tuesday 20 May 2014

The Demands


                           The Demands 

the demands of your ornament 
your ornament
It must sparkle 
but not too bright that would be unruly
It must entertain
But only entertain it's owner
you treat the glowing organism like a thing
no we are people 
no we can sparkle
 no we are our owner
the demands of our glowing female self's 
remains clear!





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Wednesday 14 May 2014

Newborn


NEWBORN

The Wonders of the world is the path I follow 
  The Wonders
  The Wonders

like a child with a open mind full of question marks 
I AM a newborn to the world 
Newborn
?NEWBORN?




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