We import helicopters
We export baby elephants

How nice.

A photo by Liu Heung Shing, featuring a young couple hiding beneath a bridge in 1989 when Beijing had been placed under Martial Law.
- fleurishes.tumblr.com

The doctor sits me on a table and asks me to stick out my tongue.
I do.

I ask him if he sees the paintings I carry in the back of my throat.
He laughs as if I’m telling a joke,
I’m not.

I’ve got Basquiat, Schiele, Van Gogh, and Da Vinci
so when I laugh, I taste brushstrokes.

I ask him if he can stick out his tongue
so I can see what he has trapped inside of him.

He hesitates a little then he does and I see a man who
struggles for acceptance and chokes on the word
Love.

- Lacey Roop, from “The Parts of Humans Science Can’t Explain”

So this Zengeza MP is sure the explosion was witchcraft. I keep saying it: 98% of Zimbabweans are literate. The other 2% are politicians. (via Cynic Harare)

You don’t get to choose who handles your heart. There are simply people who were born with it in their teeth. When you meet them, it is best to build a bomb shelter. Tara Hardy (via fleurishes.tumblr.com)