ivan's Favorite Stores
‘searching for the windmills’


Real Name: Ivan Boothe
Website: QuixoticLife.net
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Interests: agitprop, anarchism, antiracism, coding, direct education, feminism, handbells, labor history, nonviolence theory, peace studies, poetry, Punk, radical art, social change, trans theory
About Me:
Before we begin,
These are the things
I should tell you:
I am hot-blooded.
Passionate, yes, but
also in the winter,
I will gripe about how hot
and stifling the buildings are,
and surreptitiously open windows.
I will go outside without my jacket.
I will not wear a hat. I will probably catch my death.
I will not get up in the morning.
Any rational argument you make
as to why I really must get up now
will be met with indifference.
I will resist you.
I confess that I often
do not do the dishes
in a very timely manner.
I am not troubled by the mouse
emerging at midnight for the crumbs
on the counter — we have
useful symbiosis in this life.
I warn you:
Do not let me go into used bookstores.
Oh! you will think, it will be romantic
and a little European —
and afterwards we can sip espresso
outside some sidewalk café.
You will realize your folly,
struggling home with me,
dozens of old books on a cross-town bus.
If presented with your spare,
bare apartment, ikeafied with
white boxes of space,
I will not have the heart to tell you
that you had better be up to the task
of distracting me from that aesthetic void
whenever we spend the night.
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