Insane, and alright with that

At this precise moment, John Green might be my favorite person on this planet.

I mean, to be fair, that status will probably soon shift back to the usual suspects of, you know, people I actually know.  But the most recent vlogbrothers video was amazing.  As in, hilarious, and real, and things I wish people had said more when I was in high school, and things about which I still need to be reminded.  I’m probably excited about it because he says a lot of things that I think a lot, that people look at me like I’m crazy for expressing.  So, you know, affirmation that I’m not crazy.  From a man talking to a camera about young adults’ sex questions while sitting in an airport…

e.e. cummings, “maggie and milly and molly and may”

sharingpoetry:

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

Nikki Giovanni, “Being and Nothingness”

sharingpoetry:

(to quote a philosopher)

i haven’t done anything
meaningful in so long
it’s almost meaningful
to do nothing

i suppose i could fall in love
or at least in line
since i’m so discontented
but that takes effort
and i don’t want to exert anything
neither my energy nor my emotions

i’ve always prided myself
on being a child of the sixties
and we are all finished
so that makes being
nothing

(submitted by meterandprose)