Mark My Words
By OZGE GOZTURK
You can dump me
in the general waste bin,
or the lost & found box of a hospital.
You can bury me under
a nameless gravestone
at someone’s abandoned
backyard. You can
treat me like a pub toilet,
write dirty words all over
my walls, scrape them,
and vomit on my tired vinyl floor.
I’ll stand tall. I’m used to
standing tall despite the punches,
earthquakes, waves hitting
my face. I got used to
stormy weathers,
salty waters, deep seas,
and I’ll sail away from you
one day, and until then,
you do you, father.
By OZGE GOZTURK
You can dump me
in the general waste bin,
or the lost & found box of a hospital.
You can bury me under
a nameless gravestone
at someone’s abandoned
backyard. You can
treat me like a pub toilet,
write dirty words all over
my walls, scrape them,
and vomit on my tired vinyl floor.
I’ll stand tall. I’m used to
standing tall despite the punches,
earthquakes, waves hitting
my face. I got used to
stormy weathers,
salty waters, deep seas,
and I’ll sail away from you
one day, and until then,
you do you, father.
Forwarded from Midget memes, broken dreams (Chelle 🐾🖤🎩)
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Found
My final year as an undergraduate student is over halfway through, and, as such, my mind is preoccupied by change, both big and small. This channel has seen many changes as well, slowly shifting as time has passed it by. One such change is the gradual shift…
My first year as a graduate student of writing has begun, and, for the first time in my life, I exist in a place and amongst people completely unfamiliar to those I've known previously. I've talked a lot in my previous annual addresses about what it means to find something and reconstruct a meaning out of it, but what I've said before is far too fixated on rebuilding. To truly find something new and unfamiliar is to meet something without a definite shape in its meaning, and to have to build it from the ground up, without foundations or blueprints.
I am in such a phase now. Everything in my life is new and wonderful and I'm truthfully the happiest I've ever been but that, in a large part, is because a new life is one without known boundaries. I have been blessed to be able to set aside my past perceptions and build a new self, to find strength and opportunity with each fresh step I take. My eyes may be old, but the sights have changed.
I've also been thinking a lot about Found, and what to say for such a momentous year in my life. I hope I pieced my thoughts together well enough. In thinking about this channel though, I've decided to change an old tradition of mine. As you may have noticed, this address is not on Christmas, as it has been previously. Now, it's on the 27th, the anniversary of Found's, well, founding. It's important to be able to reinterpret and change, if it's done with love, if you take care of what you find.
I am in such a phase now. Everything in my life is new and wonderful and I'm truthfully the happiest I've ever been but that, in a large part, is because a new life is one without known boundaries. I have been blessed to be able to set aside my past perceptions and build a new self, to find strength and opportunity with each fresh step I take. My eyes may be old, but the sights have changed.
I've also been thinking a lot about Found, and what to say for such a momentous year in my life. I hope I pieced my thoughts together well enough. In thinking about this channel though, I've decided to change an old tradition of mine. As you may have noticed, this address is not on Christmas, as it has been previously. Now, it's on the 27th, the anniversary of Found's, well, founding. It's important to be able to reinterpret and change, if it's done with love, if you take care of what you find.