when the phone rings, I know it’s you
from the tension in my hips and I hold for a beat
and think of you on the other side
in your boxer shorts and your rumpled bed sheets
running your hands through your hair
looking like a car crash
we communicate through silence
when I pick up, you exhale and I inhaleour breathing sounds like a drum roll magnified,
repeat and repeat
the weight of silence is so loud my ears ring
I want to ask you how you are but instead
I sigh, and I imagine the way you reach for it
uncurling your arms and your body
your tapers and hollows and dips expanding
for any wish that might leave my mouth
because you cannot touch me there anymore
you can’t touch me anywhere at all
wonder then, if this is all we will have left
if the hushes that leave our lips are all that we’ll know
you are sad that words have ruined us
that when we talk we can only ever say ‘fuck you’ or ‘I love you’
that language has turned us inside out but you
can’t tell me, and you can’t leave me
so instead you call, at three in the morning
unravelling like twine, pulling at your skin
and we breathe to each other, we gasp
and all we feel is static charge
(Source: banfred.com, via creaamy--baby)
npr:
—“There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights,” the fictional detective of Raymond Chandler’s crime novels once said.
Los Angeles itself could be that monument. Our boulevards are lined with neon pinks and blues. The oldest operating neon sign ever found was uncovered just last year.
Photographer Vicky Moon set out to document the neon signs that are slowly getting overtaken by flashing LED lights.
For her project “Expired LA” Moon hopped on her pink scooter and made long exposures with expired film. See more of her work on KPCC’s AudioVision.
(Source: declaringwar)
aka masturbating
“High in the hills of Randolph county is the isolated community of Helvetia, West Virginia. Settled shortly after the Civil War by a group of Swiss immigrants, many of the towns residents are descended from those original settlers and have maintained many of the Swiss customs and traditions.”
Woman in Helvetia, West Virginia (ca. 1890’s)
(Source: asthmas, via andreacoral)
There are two identical-looking people sleeping on the subway
Are you trying to say black people look the same!?
Films, pretty things, and funny stuff.
