20 things that give me joy right now

in no particular order:

1. a full, bright moon rising.
2. counting stars on my way home.
3. crushing pine cones underfoot.
4. hearing all the different types of laughs my friends have.
5. constant dancing.
6. constant singing.
7. writing poems for people in my head.
8. waking up and getting out of bed before 9am.
9. not eating meat aka eating spinach all the time.
10. being present and prepared for all my classes.
11. therapy// being more open and honest.
12. 52's living room.
13. listening to reggae while i get dressed in the morning.
14. listening to the music i liked in high school when i fall asleep.
15. calling someone and having them pick up.
16. making new friends with people who are still happy & excited about hampshire.
17. holding my elephant necklace to my ear when i am sleepy//nervous//sad//happy.
18. a well spent weekend.
19. tequila.
20. sleep.

yummy.

i've been craving poetry. when i crave poetry, i get an urge to scrape words off the page/screen, stuff them in my mouth, lick the remains off of my fingers. my mouth gets itchy and my stomach gets impatient.

poetry makes me antsy and excited- sentimental, too.

poetry makes me want to travel.

so tonight, while searching for a good poem, i also made these two lists:

list of places i want to live/visit for an extended period of time:

-london (top of the list for many reasons- one being all of the queer performers based in london that i am just NOW finding out about. i've already got a list of london grad schools saved)
-edinburgh
-paris
-berlin (i forgive you, let's try again)
-san fransisco
-portland
-kentucky
-philadelphia


list of places i want to travel to (that aren't on the list above):

-amsterdam
-marseilles
-barcelona
-rome
-hong kong
-tokyo
-india
-ethiopia
-cape verde
-brazil
-australia
-switzerland
-sweden
-kenya
-russia
-cyprus
-mexico
-arizona
-hawaii


yummy. give me poems, too. i wanna stuff my face with pretty words.

top eight reasons why you shouldn't upset an artist:

8. they're all crazy
7. they're full of abstract emotions
6. this means that they're bad at communicating what they're feeling/thinking
5. they can get rly creative when it comes to forms of revenge
4. its basically their job to make the world see things from their pov, so no one will sympathize with you
3. they're socially awkward- aka stalking
2. yr fight will be captured in a work of art that will be exposed to the world
1. the whole world will learn that yr a douche