All smiley today

I've been so angry at men lately. So:

"Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off."

Coco Chanel

“This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches,
give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families,
read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life,
re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

Walt Whitman

I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.

"Quiet Girl" --Langston Hughes

I remember.

I remember how much rock and roll music can hurt. It can be so free and sexy when you are not.
--Joe Brainard, I Remember

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Reading this "I remember" series today, poetry brought me to tears for the first time in a long time, and it was quite lovely.