[how does that
woman walk? she is not sick or sad.
doesn’t even remember today.
has been to Europe. what song
is she humming? now. right now.]
that’s it.

Marty McConnell, from “Survival poem #17” (via words-in-lines)

(via gammasandgerunds)

#marty mcconnell  #survival poem 17  #poetry  #lit  
Posted by leopoldgursky
∞  January 28, 2012
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    holy fucking shit this is incredibly beautiful and made me cry. it sounds like it came from my head.
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