February 2012
198 posts
Sappho, "Blame Aphrodite"
sharingpoetry:
It’s no use Mother dear, I can’t finish my weaving You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy (submitted by shipwrecker)
me: omg let's go do something productive today!
tumblr: are you sure?
me: yeah I need a social li-
tumblr: do you
tumblr: do you really
me: but I have no frie-
tumblr: I'm your friend
me: but I was just gon-
tumblr: shhh sit down
me: ok
I don’t just want to know things, I want to know everything. And I can’t. I can’t have it all, I’ll never be able to be quite as independent as I want to be. And maybe I was never meant to be. But at least now I can say I’ve been getting practice.
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I think all of Andrew’s friends must think I’m awful. I can’t say I blame them, on the surface. It was bad, an all around bad situation that wasn’t fair to either of us but especially not to him. Yet they judge me like I chose this. And I object to that. Let them think what they wish. Andrew didn’t have to pin the totality of his life and dreams on me, he didn’t...
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“Must I utterly squander in conscious misery a whole day & night every two weeks of my life?”
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