photography & art & inspiration mallorylawson@gmail.com || jroebas@gmail.com malloryanitalawson.com || jroebas.com var sc_project=4885311; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=57; var sc_click_stat=1; var sc_security="4ba6b50b"; Tumblr (3.0; @malloryanitalawson)http://harperandanita.com/<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyz2cnVzf21qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nate Lowman @ the Armory. (<i>stolen from <a href="http://www.purple-diary.com/page/4" target="_blank">PurpleDiary</a></i>)</p>http://harperandanita.com/post/434878401http://harperandanita.com/post/434878401Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:41:11 -0500John<p>An old man asked me for a cigarette</p> <p>and I carefully dealt out two.</p> <p>“Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand</p> <p>in the sun and smoke.”</p> <p>He was close to rags and rage</p> <p>and he leaned against death.</p> <p>It was a cold day, indeed, and trucks</p> <p>loaded and heavy as old whores</p> <p>banged and tangled on the streets…</p> <p>We drop like planks from a rotting floor</p> <p>as the world strives to unlock the bone</p> <p>that weights its brain.</p> <p>(God is a lonely place without steak.)</p> <p>We are dying birds</p> <p>we are sinking ships-</p> <p>the world rocks against us</p> <p>and we</p> <p>throw out our arms</p> <p>and we</p> <p>throw out our legs</p> <p>like the death kiss of the centipede</p> <p>but they kindly snap our backs</p> <p>and call our poison “politics.”</p> <p>We, we smoked, he and I- little men</p> <p>nibbling fish-head thoughts…</p> <p>All the horses do not come in,</p> <p>and as you watch the lights of the jails</p> <p>and the hospitals wink on and out,</p> <p>and men handle flags as carefully as babies</p> <p>remember this:</p> <p>you are a great-gutted instrument of</p> <p>heart and belly, carefully planned-</p> <p>so if you take a plane for Savannah,</p> <p>take the best plane;</p> <p>or if you eat chicken on a rock,</p> <p>make it a very special animal.</p> <p>(You call it a bird; I call birds</p> <p>flowers.)</p> <p>And it you decided to kill somebody,</p> <p>make it anybody and not somebody:</p> <p>some men are made of more special, precious</p> <p>parts: do not kill</p> <p>if you will</p> <p>a president of a King</p> <p>or a man</p> <p>behind a desk-</p> <p>these have heavenly longitudes</p> <p>enlightened attitudes.</p> <p>If you decide,</p> <p>take us</p> <p>who stand and smoke and glower;</p> <p>we are rusty with sadness and</p> <p>feverish</p> <p>with climbing broken ladders.</p> <p>Take us:</p> <blockquote> <p>we were never children</p> <p>like your children.</p> <p>We do not understand love songs</p> <p>like your inamorata.</p> </blockquote> <p>Our faces are cracked linoleum,</p> <p>cracked through with the heavy, sure</p> <p>feet of our masters.</p> <p>We are shot through with carrot tops</p> <p>and poppyseed and tilted grammar;</p> <p>we waste days like mad black birds</p> <p>and prat for alcoholic nights.</p> <p>Our silk-sick human smiles wrap around</p> <p>us like somebody else’s confetti:</p> <p>we do not even belong to the Party.</p> <p>We are a scene chalked-out with the</p> <p>sick white brush of Age.</p> <p>We smoke, asleep as a dish of figs.</p> <p>We smoke, dead as a fog.</p> <p>Take us.</p> <p>A bathtub murder</p> <p>or something quick and bright: our names</p> <p>in the papers.</p> <p>Known, as last, for a moment</p> <p>to millions of careless and grape-dull eyes</p> <p>that hold themselves private</p> <p>to only flicker and flame</p> <p>at the poor cracker-barrel jibes</p> <p>of their conceited, pampered correct comedians.</p> <p>Know, at last, for a moment,</p> <p>as they will be known.</p> <p>and as you will be known</p> <p>by an all-gray man on an all-gray horse</p> <p>who sits and fondles a sword</p> <p>longer than the night</p> <p>longer than the mountain’s aching backbone</p> <p>longer than all the cries</p> <p>that have a-bombed up out of throats</p> <p>and exploded in a newer, less planned</p> <p>land.</p> <p>We smoke and the clouds do not notice us.</p> <p>A cat walks by and shakes Shakespeare off of his back.</p> <p>Tallow, tallow, candle like wax: our spines</p> <p>are limp and our consciousness burns</p> <p>guilelessly away</p> <p>the remaining wick life has</p> <p>doled out to us.</p> <p>An old man asked me for a cigarette</p> <p>and told me his troubles</p> <p>and this</p> <p>is what he said:</p> <p>that Age was a crime</p> <p>and that Pity picked up the marbles</p> <p>and that Hatred picked up the</p> <p>cash.</p> <p>He might have been your father</p> <p>or mine.</p> <p>He might have been a sex-fiend</p> <p>or a saint.</p> <p>But whatever he was,</p> <p>he was condemned</p> <p>and we stood in the sun and</p> <p>smoked</p> <p>and looked around</p> <p>in our leisure</p> <p>to see who was next in line.</p> <blockquote> <p>-Charles Bukowski</p> </blockquote>http://harperandanita.com/post/432489544http://harperandanita.com/post/432489544Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:21:00 -0500mallory lawson<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyu0vhJPDR1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>homesick and i haven’t even left yet :(</p>http://harperandanita.com/post/429033881http://harperandanita.com/post/429033881Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:21:17 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytsa5EKce1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Margaret Moose tattoo</p>http://harperandanita.com/post/428763650http://harperandanita.com/post/428763650Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:15:21 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyts8axzvM1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/428762227http://harperandanita.com/post/428762227Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:14:16 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyts74JEQz1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/428761329http://harperandanita.com/post/428761329Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:13:35 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyts5zmerc1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/428760437http://harperandanita.com/post/428760437Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:12:50 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyq983324T1qzoodlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://rachelgibbons.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">rachelgibbons</a>)</p>http://harperandanita.com/post/424873047http://harperandanita.com/post/424873047Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:34:43 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyo5ss521N1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>uhhhhmazing</p> <p>aurel schmidt @ the Whitney Biennial</p>http://harperandanita.com/post/422452721http://harperandanita.com/post/422452721Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:22:03 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymc6nOUBO1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>i love looking through photo albums at home.</p> <p>probably why i am always compulsively taking pictures.</p>http://harperandanita.com/post/420324437http://harperandanita.com/post/420324437Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:44:47 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymc4kyo0i1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420322828http://harperandanita.com/post/420322828Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:43:32 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymc3rALu61qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420322235http://harperandanita.com/post/420322235Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:43:02 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymc34lwur1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420321686http://harperandanita.com/post/420321686Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:42:40 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymc1x6a8Z1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420320705http://harperandanita.com/post/420320705Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:41:57 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymc0kp3221qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420319616http://harperandanita.com/post/420319616Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:41:07 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymbyrIKG41qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420318074http://harperandanita.com/post/420318074Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:40:03 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymbwjye3H1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420316419http://harperandanita.com/post/420316419Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:38:43 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymbvbLUuT1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420315376http://harperandanita.com/post/420315376Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:37:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymbs0pAZ21qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420312738http://harperandanita.com/post/420312738Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:36:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kymbq9aEAV1qzrdq5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://harperandanita.com/post/420311401http://harperandanita.com/post/420311401Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:34:57 -0500