May 2013
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This poem was born out of the idea of your wrists as escape hatches and what if...
– Derrick C. Brown, Introduction to Completing a Dumb Puzzle (via fuckyeahlaughitoff)
We have work to do.
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I want to be something ridiculous and wonderful and yellow.
– Derrick C. Brown - Pleased To Meet You Yellow, My Name Is Blue (via ineffable-gaudiness)
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April 2013
12 posts
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All booze is just a sleeping pill now,
I close my eyes. Love.
You taste like...
– Derrick C. Brown (via rarararambles)
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your relationship had too much math
and one astonishing
uncalculated loss.
– Derrick Brown, ‘Bad Arithmetic’ (via loverofstories)
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All booze is just a sleeping pill now,
I close my eyes. Love.
You taste like...
– Derrick C. Brown (via rarararambles)
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If no one else finds the means to patiently adore you, navigate back to me by...
– Derrick Brown (via electricharmony)
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May you bitch mount your fear.
– DERRICK C. BROWN (via howtoleavetheozarks)
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miraclemargo:
what is the best derrick brown book?
i need to buy his stuff, he seems amazing
What are everyone’s thoughts?
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God is not trying to fix the unfixable.
so what the hell are we doin’?
He set...
– DERRICK C. BROWN, “How to Leave the Ozarks” (via howtoleavetheozarks)
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howtoleavetheozarks:
thank you for all the reblogs, fuck yeah derrick brown
I love every time you cause me to get a bunch of notifications and then I get to read the quote over and over again and enjoy it in its derrick brown glory
My current working theories are that you are a. Anis mojgani and that derrick brown is running the real anis mojgani or b. Jeremy radin is running both of those
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March 2013
14 posts
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Poetry is a tough racket, the bastard child of the arts. But I am so thankful...
– Derrick Brown (via larmoyante)
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Oh no!
writebloody:
Write Bloody captain Derrick Brown’s lady friend JB was robbed today at her hair salon. Check this out if you would like to help her get back on her feet. We love you. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/revive-jb-project
From the page:
My name is Derrick Brown and I own a small poetry bookshop in Austin Texas. My gal JB and i moved to an affordable part of town, in a small...
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Wait until
a year from now
where you say,
“Holy fuck,
I can’t believe I was...
– Derrick C. Brown, Instead of Killing Yourself (via writingsforwinter)
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February 2013
12 posts
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I said to you “listen, the mathematical equivalent
of a woman’s beauty is...
– Derrick Brown (via loverofstories)
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I am waltzing a wrecking ball.
I am wading in the dark felt Tijuana paintings...
– Derrick Brown, from Cotton in the Air (via inshoeboxes)
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All I want to do is hot lust you into dead sweat.
To watch your legs, those...
– Derrick Brown (via rarararambles)
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She is my landlord
and she has lowered the rent
She points to her chest and...
– Derrick Brown (via rarararambles)
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Hot damn. I knew love once. It was my savior.
Sometimes we murder our saviors.
– DERRICK C. BROWN, “The Rise and Fall of Julius Walker” (via howtoleavetheozarks)
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I am waltzing a wrecking ball.
I am wading in the dark felt Tijuana paintings...
– Derrick Brown, from Cotton in the Air (via inshoeboxes)
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When I am alone and my skull is a ripsaw,
I want to jump into the womb of any...
– DERRICK C. BROWN, “Beauty Mark of the Beast at Mach Six” (via howtoleavetheozarks)
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“If you are cooking something in the kitchen tonight, slow down and see the meal in the pot. Notice the pot. Maybe leave the meal in the sauce longer. Look out the window.”
- Derrick C. Brown
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My mind goes applauding up into the oaks.
The leaves’ ragged voices flitter,...
– DERRICK C. BROWN, “Blazing the Valley in Psalms” (via howtoleavetheozarks)
January 2013
15 posts
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There you were,
bright and strange among thousands of folks,
whose power had...
– DERRICK C. BROWN, “Glowing in Denver” (via howtoleavetheozarks)
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bodiesmakehomes:
love is yours love is yours let it be its horrible self
You are church
The closest thing to salvation since people thought to hold...
– Derrick Brown (via rarararambles)
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This is not how the world needs you,
or anyone.
The world doesn’t need any...
– DERRICK C. BROWN, “Top” (via howtoleavetheozarks)
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I want you to feel like a disco ball of fish hooks so you can hang on my words...
– Derrick Brown (via rarararambles)