Skinny White Chick Song Lyrics

"Oh, you were the truth of my running mascara
the moment my mask was no more
I offered me up sweet and bitter,
suspecting you’d courage to savor me down to my core"
-- Carousel

"She's a fever I don't want to avoid
It seems like she will still be standing
when the world's destroyed"
-- Fever

More Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!
and the difference between them.

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More Rumi Poems

The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.

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A road might end at a single house
but it's not love's road.

Love is a river.
Drink from it.

Darwin

"Thus disbelief crept over me... so slowly I felt no distress."

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"By in large, the dead aren't very talented: They can't play water polo, they can't lace up their boots... they can't dance for beans... There's one thing dead people excel at. They're very good at handling pain."

The Mirror Between Us by Rumi

The mirror between us is breath
mist when I speak. Your face

in water: I reach, the work
grows muddy. Even friend and

beloved are wrong words for this.
Even ahhhhh retreats back into

my mouth, the same if the moon's
behind cloud or being released.

A pure silent look is better.

Undressing by Rumi

Learn the alchemy true human beings
know: the moment you accept what

troubles you've been given, the door
will open. Welcome difficulty

as a familiar comrade. Joke with
torment brought by the Friend.

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes
and jackets that serve to cover,

then are taken off. That undressing,
and the naked body underneath, is

the sweetness that comes after grief.