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you know how you have a handful of memories that you can play back in your head like a movie? one of mine is waiting for The Temper Trap at Wanderland Fest this summer with the entire crowd dying in the 100F heat, and then seeing Dougy walk onstage in those low rise pants. priceless.

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i'm so tired of your innocence / come back when you're done saving the world // UDD killed it, as always. amazing band, amazing crowd, amazing event.

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i know the last page so well / i can't read the first // Nada Surf's set brought back so many memories! inside of love! <3

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still in awe. Dougy of @thetempertrap really made #wanderlandmusicfest an unforgettable experience. @wanderlandfest

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neon trees killed it last night! animal was so wild! really one for the books! also, how cool is tyler glenn?! 😍😎

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temper trap closed their set with sweet disposition yesterday at Wanderland Music Festival. i remember edging my way slowly forward through the crowd, both to get a better view and to seek refuge on the grills before the stage (i was standing for almost nine hours and i needed some support, thanks grills!) i was with my sister, drunk and half-stoned and completely fried, midnight, under the beautiful moon after days without sleeping, living off wine and bananas / “the second half is where you guys sing,” Dougi said. he sang it: “a moment of love. a dream. a laugh,” and the hundreds of people chorused it back at him. “you start out quiet and then just keep adding volume to it, okay? we’ll just keep building and building.” and eventually, he told us, “you just yell. you just scream as hard and as loud as you can and we’ll try to break the roof off this stage, or something." / our voices ascend and rose and he was just tearing on his guitar and then we were yelling, all of us, screaming it at the top of our lungs A MOMENT OF LOVE. A DREAM. A LAUGH. A KISS. A CRY. OUR RIGHTS. OUR WRONGS and it seemed so clear as it soared and soared and filled the air, thousands of voices and i could feel myself filling with bliss, choking on it. 100 degrees in that open field and yet actual goosebumps raised themselves on my skin; and i thought, this is a cathedral, this is God, this is our flesh and blood and all our tiny souls aching to hold onto whatever this is— then the music faded to a close and still we sang, won't stop 'til it's over won't stop 'til it's over won't stop 'til it's over won't stop to surrender.

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Wanderland 2013!

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HALP / if anyone wants to read my recently finished poetry portfolio i'm thinking of submitting for the fall season, leave me a note with and i’ll send it along! i’d love any input, about half of them were never workshopped in class so i’m a little insecure. plus some of it is the juicy shit that’s too personal for me to put on here. wink wink nudge nudge, etc etc. (leave me your name & email here)

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you have been running and running and at night, my fingers seek //

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and darling, maybe you're somewhere in the city, reaching, grasping, and i'm / standing, hands in my pockets, staring at the moving train //

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in my head i am always seventeen / and it is always a brief scorching summer / in the city and i am always falling hastily in love / with the way some boy’s collarbone slants down his chest / with skinned knees, with swimming in our underpants / with sneaking out under star-swathed skies, with jumping into the pool / with basement games of Beirut. i am / made of sunshine and soft, wet grass and pine / needles and Civil War cannons and i promise i will stay this way forever //

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dancing cheek to cheek.

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at night, i painted your continents with stars glittering on ink oceans- incandescence, floating past event the horizon / you mistook them for bright city lights.

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you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you / compares you to an impossible highway, to a burning house / says you are blinding him that he could never leave you / forget you / want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name / you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste / his body just a long shadow seeking yours /but you are always too intense / frightening in the way you want him / unashamed and sacrificial / he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your head and you tried to change didn't you? // warsan shire, 'for women who are 'difficult' to love

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you say you think of me at five a.m., and how should i tell you that i do the same- that as the sun rises over the city's skyscrapers / i remember how i fell for you / so hard i scraped my knees / i walked all winter with blood trickling down my shins / picking the gravel from my flesh and bones / thinking of nothing but your sweet lips on my skin //

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and i swear i will forget this forever.

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every time i say i'm not in love with you, i am.

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if anyone wants to check my emotional temperature right now, i almost cried in the café today looking at my friend who’s an architecture major. i was just suddenly overwhelmed with how beautiful and amazing it is to dedicate your life to literally building things. how hopeful, how golden. that’s how i’m feeling today. also, this one's for @instagram #WHPsilhouettes

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you want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ you think i’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? i’ll swallow you whole. / warsan shire

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you can’t make homes out of human beings. someone should have already told you that. and if he wants to leave then let him leave. you are terrifying and strange and beautiful. something not everyone knows how to love / warsan shire, for women who are difficult to love

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sky gradient with a chance of bokeh //

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my alone feels so good, i'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude / warsan shire

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stop and smell the flowers //

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endless structure-lined asphalt jungle //

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atlanticism //

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we were married by the ocean / we were tethered by the sea / we tied string around our fingers / to remember our ideals / tethered, sleeping at last

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hey there, sexy.