Small, Lucas Regazzi

foxfootedfrets:

“You’re not doing well and finally I don’t have to
pretend to be so interested in your on going tragedy,
 
but
 
I’ll rob the bank that gave you the impression that
money is more fruitful than words, and
I’ll cut holes in the ozone if it means you have one less day of rain.
I’ll walk you to the hospital,
I’ll wait in a white room that reeks of hand sanitizer and latex for the results from the MRI scan that tries to
locate the malady that keeps your mind guessing, and
I want to write you a poem every day until my hand breaks
and assure you that you’ll find your place,
it’s just
the world has a funny way of
hiding spots fertile enough for
bodies like yours to grow roots.
 
and
 
I miss you like a dart hits the iris of a bullseye,
or a train ticket screams 4:30 at 4:47, I
wanted to tell you that it’s my birthday on Thursday
and I would have wanted you to
give me the gift of your guts on the floor, one last time,
to see if you still had it in you.
 
I hope our ghosts aren’t eating you alive.
If I’m to speak for myself, I’ll tell you that
the universe is twice as big as we think it is
and you’re the only one that made that idea
less devastating.”

 

This poem is hitting particularly hard today.

punsicle:

have you ever stayed up late with someone texting or chatting and known as the hours ticked by that you’d be ridiculously tired in the morning but it didnt matter because it was really fun and totally worth losing sleep over just to laugh with someone and enjoy their company maybe and then the next day you keep tiredly recalling how much fun it was while you’re falling asleep in class and that makes it not so bad that you’re tired anymore

youngblackandvegan:

theslavbarbarian:

errantscarsanddyingstars:

legallyunderage:

If ur white and have locs pls unfollow me cause ion got the time 2 put up with ur nonsense.

or how about dreads aren’t exclusive to POC seeing as the celts, scandinavians, vikings, and many biblical figures wore them as well. get your head out of your ass. you’re not  a special snowflake.

The Celts and Scandinavians/vikings did not wear dreads (the celts limed their hair which is completely different from locking it, and both celts and scandinavians wore their hair long and braided which is also completely different from locking it, there is no definite evidence for either culture wearing locs), and the biblical figures were PoC and many of them may have had afro-textured hair. In fact, there is a line in the bible describing jesus as having hair “like wool”.

White-textured hair does NOT loc, it only mats, and trying to imitate black people’s locs is appropriative and racist because of the history of black people being dehumanized and mocked for the natural texture of their hair.

end of story.

EDIT: the closest non-black hairstyle to locs is jata which is matted hair worn by certain religious Indian men, and has a great religious significance in India and thus should not be appropriated by anyone else.

OOP

white people tried it

and they failed lol