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recommendations, quotations, tweets, & a poem

Despy Boutris
Jul 22, 2023
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Happy Friday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

  • Housekeeping

  • What I’m reading

  • What I’m listening to

  • Quotes

  • Tweets


Housekeeping:

I have a poem out in Ninth Letter. You can read it here.

Also, I haven’t written a poem in a bit, but here are some lines to use soon:

dbouts
dbouts on Instagram: “mail for a friend / lines for a poem”
July 13, 2023

What I’m reading:

  • Women, Chloe Caldwell

  • The Secret Gay History of Indie Rock

  • The (Jonah) Hills Have Eyes

  • Barbie Has Cellulite (But You Don't Have To)

  • Shirley Baker’s dazzling portraits of 80s London punks

  • This Sapphic Theory About the Spice Girls’ Breakup Will Blow Your Mind


What I’m listening to:

  • The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson (We Can Do Hard Things)

  • My Rajneesh, Sufjan Stevens

  • Once Upon A Poolside, The National


Quotations:

I am looking for a shortcut—something I could say that would effortlessly untangle the ball of yarn I am trying to untangle here on these pages.

-Chloe Caldwell


Isn’t it sad to talk about ex-lovers in the past tense as though they are dead?

-Chloe Caldwell


In my memory it happens quickly—everything of hers in everything of mine. Fingers and tongue. Her palms on my back, her hands in my hair, her breath in my ear saying babybabybaby.

-Chloe Caldwell


No, it was not what I needed. But maybe what I wanted.

-Chloe Caldwell


I always want to feel good and I never want to feel bad.

-Chloe Caldwell


She is always smaller in reality than she is in my head.

-Chloe Caldwell


I don’t think there are many weapons that are more dangerous than our wounds. And I think we live in a really wounded world.

-Andrea Gibson


Tweets:

Sigh.

Oh no.

Yeah!


-Despy Boutris
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