Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb is a lesbian San Francisco-based performance poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
thinking faces continuing
I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
change form happen historical lousy maybe next number poem poems poetry point rebellion revolution
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.
relationship sex kissing
you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.
hurt men sight
come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it
beer boys love-is
All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.
wanted
There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.
writing love-poems should
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself
writing make-sense
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.
writing needs building
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
pregnancy divorce order
The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.
pairs doe conquer
Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.
girl heart fists
I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.
beautiful girlfriend kissing
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.