inspirational4lyfe. Nina Hagen was /the/ punk goddess for me when i was young. (along w/ Siouxsie Sioux) like you really can't tell me ***nothing*** about her glory. bow.

"i don’t have to try in the least to shock people. my beliefs are sufficiently shocking to most people. because we live in a culture where passion and sexuality have been replaced by shame. we are miles away from our hearts, our feelings. in Greek mythology the gods were sleeping with the humans all the time. but the Christians claim jesus was fathered without a single drop of sperm. there wasn't even a penis involved. it’s a religion without penetration. and subsequently the same believers take their swords and chop the non-believers to pieces, stab babies to death and burn witches at the stake. and you think i’m shocking when i say i gave god a blowjob? give me a fucking break."

- Tori Amos

Moon Song, Woman Song

I am alive at night. I am dead in the morning, an old vessel who used up her oil, bleak and pale boned. No miracle. No dazzle. I'm out of repair but you are tall in your battle dress and I must arrange for your journey. I was always a virgin, old and pitted. Before the world was, I was.

I have been oranging and fat, carrot colored, gaped at, allowing my cracked o's to drop on the sea near Venice and Mombasa. Over Maine I have rested. I have fallen like a jet into the Pacific. I have committed perjury over Japan. I have dangled my pendulum, my fat bag, my gold, gold blinkedy light over you all.

So if you must inquire, do so. After all I am not artificial. I looked long upon you, love-bellied and empty, flipping my endless display for you, you my cold, cold coverall man.

You need only request and I will grant it. It is virtually guaranteed that you will walk into me like a barracks. So come cruising, come cruising, you of the blast off, you of the bastion, you of the scheme. I will shut my fat eye down, headquarters of an area, house of a dream.

Anne Sexton - The Complete Poems