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I am so confused. Is your name Riese or Marie or what? You can’t have ALL the names.

I am so confused! Say Marie. Say it! Now say it but say the last part for a long time. Marrrrrrrrrieeeeeeee. Yeah? Do you see where I’m going with this? Then people just wanted to add an “s” to the end of it. I didn’t actually have to decide how to spell it until Haviland decided for me that online I should go by my nickname instead of my proper name b/c my proper name didn’t “fit me.” My friends spelled it “Ris” but people pronounced that wrong so i changed the spelling. My Mom called me Ree-Ree when I was a kid. This is no different than “Lizzy” is to “Elizabeth” but nobody is confused about that. I feel marginalized by my exotic name.

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Grudges, by Stephen Dunn

Easy for almost anything to occur.
Even if we’ve scraped the sky, we can be rubble.
For years those men felt one way, acted another.

Ground zero, is it possible to get lower?
Now we had a new definition of the personal,
knew almost anything could occur.

It just takes a little training to blur
a motive, lie low while planning the terrible,
get good at acting one way, feeling another.

Yet who among us doesn’t harbor
a grudge or a secret? So much isn’t erasable;
it follows that almost anything can occur,

like men ascending into the democracy of air
without intending to land, the useful veil
of having said one thing, meaning another.

Before you know it something’s over.
Suddenly someone’s missing at the table.
It’s easy (I know it) for anything to occur
when men feel one way, act another.

pure poetry stephen dunn

my straight girl crush asked me to sleep with her. should I?

1. homegirl doesn’t sound so straight
2. how did she ask you? like straight up, ‘will you sleep with me?’ (awesome) or was it a 'do you want to sleep with me?’ (less awesome, more implicit weirdness) I feel like those are distinct in a meaningful way that involves power, agency, blah blah
3. what’s the scale of the consummation we’re talking here? has this been years in the making?
4. is she a you-want-to-fuck-her-brains-out-and-call-it-a-day crush or a you-want-to-stay-in-bed-with-her-on-rainy-fall-mornings crush?

food(s) for thought!

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