Sign up or Log in
Are.na
Ankita S
Poems
Info
—
2 Followers
This channel appears in
Writing
View
Grid
Table

“Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness / and give it back to the earth’s own weight; / the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”

Water

the plants. Drink

plenty of water.

Don’t hear

the news. Get

bored. Complain

about the weather.

Keep a corkscrew

in your purse.

Swipe right

sometimes.

Don’t smile

unless you want

to. Sleep in.

Don’t see the news.

Remember what

the world is like

for white people.

Listen to

cricket songs.

Floss. Take pills.

Keep an

empty mind.

When you are

hungover

do not say

I’m never drinking

again. Be honest

when you’re up

to it. Otherwise

drink water

lie to yourself

turn off the news

burn the papers

skip the funerals

take pills

laugh at dumb shit

fuck people you

don’t care about

use the crockpot

use the juicer

use the smoothie maker

drink water

from the sky

don’t think

too much about the sky

don’t think about water

skip the funerals

close your eyes

whenever possible

When you toast

look everyone in the eyes

Never punctuate

the President

Write the news

Turn

into water

Water

the fire escape

Burn the paper

Crumble the letters

Instead of

hyacinths pick

hydrangeas

Water the hydrangeas

Wilt the news

White the hydrangeas

Drink the white

Waterfall the

cricket songs

Keep a song mind

Don’t smile

Don’t wilt

funeral

funeral

Morgan Parker - If You Are Over Staying…
d0a71f94a119504473508d241fd5ee4f.jpg
d0a71f94a119504473508d241fd5ee4f.jpg

A poem is a "line" between any two points in creation

Charles Olson
Bob Kaufman
Bob Kaufman
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
tumblr_n5atrolldp1qaruxco1_1280.gif
tumblr_n5atrolldp1qaruxco1_1280.gif

Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all.

image.png
image.png
Join Are.na to follow Poems
Sign upExplore