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Kait Rokowski - “New Insults” (WoWPS 2013)

“I would tell you to go fuck yourself, but I don’t want to wish something as awesome as sex upon you.”

A first reading from Kait Rokowski, at the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Minneapolis.

You were wrong to leave her.

"…and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself."
— Emily Dickinson, Letters of Emily Dickinson (via runningfromadream)
"If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it seemed a defeat. I accompanied men and was accompanied in action, in the extrovert part of life; I plunged into that but not sex; that seemed to be their delight and all I got was a pleasure of being wanted, I suppose, and the tenderness (not nearly enough) that a man gives when he is satisfied. I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."
— Martha Gelhorn (via amy—rose)
"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
Charles Bukowski (via ugh)