"oh, adhere to me, for we are bound by symmetry. and whatever differences our lives have been, we together make a limb."

~   the decemberists, red right ankle
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21st Aug 2010✧21:143 notes

"my father takes me on his lap. he rocks me back and forth, softly singing the song of our homeland, a song in a minor key, my and my father’s song, we often sit together like this, but while he is really singing, i release my breath only on certain notes, as the desire strike me, very softly…this too pleases him and me. i sing him my notes quietly against his skin from the outside, into his throat, while at the same time i am listening through his shirt and shoulder to the blood circulating inside my father. again."

~   jenny erpenbeck, the book of words
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17th Aug 2010✧22:06
Opaque  by  andbamnan