"Therefore let us risk our all,
Never resting, never tiring;
Not in silence dismal, dull,
Without action or desiring;

Not in brooding introspection
Bowed beneath a yoke of pain,
So that yearning, dream and action
Unfulfilled to us remain."
—Karl Marx - “Feelings”
Posted at 11:38 AM - February 01, 2013.

pearlmother:

I fucked the lyrics up, but it sounds good.

Posted at 10:29 AM - July 13, 2012. source.
"Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year’s War. Who
Else won it?

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?

So many reports.
So many questions."

Bertolt Brecht. Questions From a Worker Who Reads.

After some discussions you just want to engrave this poem in a slab of concrete and beat people around the head with it.  This is not one of those days, but I woke up with the onset of a hangover and drank a lot of water so this is serving as an emotional barrier against the potential onslaught.

Posted at 5:54 AM - March 02, 2012.
"Like literary theory is so amazing and it’s all like “look actually there’s way more to talk about than you thought in writing” and then these poets are all “yo im sincere bitches"
Posted at 12:29 AM - February 22, 2012. source.
"STEEEEELLLLLAAAAAAAA!!!"

Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)

Sylvia goes out with her mate Stella, it gets poured all over her fella, cos she says  man he ain’t no better, than the next man kicking up fuss.

Posted at 3:13 AM - January 23, 2012. source.
"You are the world
But you see yourself
Through a darkened window
While you’re sat in a lit room."
—(via ellellgee)
Posted at 2:21 AM - December 30, 2011. source.
[poetry]

Never not misread Tolstoy as Trotsky.

Never seen a Tolstoy quote I liked.

The confused existence of a Trot on Tumblr.

Posted at 6:19 AM - December 29, 2011.
"Waiting for the train
to take us to Ikea, you turn
to kiss me. I am wearing a hat.
The scene falls away. The door
falls down. I am Cthulu and you
are the narwhal. We are twenty
thousand leagues away from our
luggage. Ethics feels like corduroy."
—David Pritchard: Postscript: Logic, Libertarianism: A Novel (via bbcity)
Posted at 6:03 PM - December 22, 2011. source.
Posted at 4:42 PM - December 22, 2011. source.

sonofapritch:

bbcity replied to your post: bbcity replied to your post: I’ve never had a…

Bukowski

If I were Charles
Bukowksi
My modus operandi
would
be
more like
“I want nothing
more
than to fuck
all the women
I have ever met
while drinking an exaggerated
amount of
something
disgusting
and then you should
realize how this
relates to
the human condition
and give me money
for my shitty
poems” 

Posted at 4:12 AM - December 18, 2011. source.

pearlmother:

I swear to fucking god I don’t do drugs. This is why no one should ever ask me to “introduce” my songs. I’m just trying to please the people, but I wish I’d just played it and left you with the lyrics as usual. Also , I fucked up the lyrics in the last verse but I’m too lazy to redo the video.

Some of us stay and some of us go
It all depends on what you think you’re capable of I suppose
You’ll sleep alone until the day that you die
Play all the cards that you’ve been dealt and never have a reason why

All of your success will be somebody else’s gain
And you will learn to play by all their rules
In all of their games

But I was born to bound
I am sure
To run away from you

I stick out my thumb to this town that I love
And all the dirty quiet places I come from
I’ve packed up my bags, and tied up loose ends
Closing up old wounds, and saying bye to older friends

I was born to bound
I am sure
To run away from you 

Posted at 5:37 AM - December 03, 2011. source.
[poetry]