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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>my name is kimmy walters and sometimes I write</description><title>hi</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @arealliveghost)</generator><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>heathison:

i’m reading in chicago on saturday, may 18th with...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/413cd32f7f26192b0d8a29e77087a8a9/tumblr_mlgxxsJkUA1rkugnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://heathison.tumblr.com/post/48300762865/im-reading-in-chicago-on-saturday-may-18th-with" target="_blank"&gt;heathison&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;i’m reading in chicago on saturday, may 18th with steve roggenbuck, heiko julien, and others&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;me too I’m also reading at this&lt;br/&gt;yay&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/48810889513</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/48810889513</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:54:45 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/92f374811269b8d085b2ace4e78ed381/tumblr_ml7pwaRdGE1rtcg9yo1_400.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47895004090</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47895004090</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:19:22 -0500</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category></item><item><title>people listening to their favorite songs on their headphones....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9b2d7134119a964f584347edb5f03518/tumblr_ml6akwpq6J1rtcg9yo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a2e21bae40bdebfe326ae1c7aa6e59d7/tumblr_ml6akwpq6J1rtcg9yo2_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e75ec262e8e75de063712524827ee2c7/tumblr_ml6akwpq6J1rtcg9yo3_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/53338491a0e189b999fa02fcb39ffd21/tumblr_ml6akwpq6J1rtcg9yo4_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/097aedd031dbd291d3efa024cb1d69cc/tumblr_ml6akwpq6J1rtcg9yo5_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d533b26e5265a55bf8eb1ec4b6b101df/tumblr_ml6akwpq6J1rtcg9yo6_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;people listening to their favorite songs on their headphones. watch here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC7IwSBGtw" target="_blank"&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyHqO0v6ilI" target="_blank"&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arV_pI93Wag" target="_blank"&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjkgkrDAqo" target="_blank"&gt;four&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ6TyEUohgM" target="_blank"&gt;five&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboQLr7VwWc" target="_blank"&gt;six&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47832514909</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47832514909</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:52:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>this is in response to the asks I get that go: &amp;#8220;when are you publishing a book?&amp;#8221;: I...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;this is in response to the asks I get that go: &amp;#8220;when are you publishing a book?&amp;#8221;: I think I am writing a book of poetry and I think it is going to take me a while to finish (it is currently 25 pages). if I can&amp;#8217;t find anyone to publish it I will look into publishing it myself. I wanna put something in your hands&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thank you for liking me&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47404139783</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47404139783</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:18:15 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>theillustratedghost:

the illustrated ghost is going on...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ad463dc4498082931df481a1734d3593/tumblr_mkn4trOjjU1rmam3qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theillustratedghost.tumblr.com/post/46951123048/the-illustrated-ghost-is-going-on-sabbatical" target="_blank"&gt;theillustratedghost&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the illustrated ghost is going on sabbatical&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;while I focus on my main personal illustration series for 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until we are back, you can follow &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aRealLiveGhost" target="_blank"&gt;@aRealLiveGhost&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and me, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/corygodbey" target="_blank"&gt;@corygodbey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the illustrated ghost will return Tuesday, May 7th&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for another three month series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you should also follow &lt;a href="http://corygodbey.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;cory’s tumblr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47391162458</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/47391162458</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:45:30 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>heikojulien:

3 poems by KIMMY WALTERS in HATERS RAG || MAY...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c2bd38031bf02bdf976db0a3e30faa4b/tumblr_mkdl3kY28X1qfn03zo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://heikojulien.tumblr.com/post/46507648762/3-poems-by-kimmy-walters-in-haters-rag-may-2013" target="_blank"&gt;heikojulien&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3 poems by KIMMY WALTERS in HATERS RAG || MAY 2013&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hatersrag.com/" target="_blank"&gt;haters rag&lt;/a&gt; comes out in may&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the site is really pretty it looks like a gentle candy&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/46542776916</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/46542776916</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:12:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>this tweet, illustrated. this is my favorite one so far I think</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6c7549f19b63fb881b9f3587f9b549ed/tumblr_mka56wttBN1rmam3qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aRealLiveGhost/statuses/201124444830314497" target="_blank"&gt;this tweet&lt;/a&gt;, illustrated. this is my favorite one so far I think&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/46378709395</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/46378709395</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:18:28 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>this tweet got pretty yay</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f26d37e43d0350963fd4d2d2c84865ed/tumblr_mjxab8Btwi1rmam3qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;this &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aRealLiveGhost/statuses/252313976237617152" target="_blank"&gt;tweet&lt;/a&gt; got pretty yay&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45792600351</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45792600351</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:37:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e34f68ff11272e0febe488331d65418f/tumblr_mjqk3l4JQ51rtcg9yo1_400.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45474794177</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45474794177</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:21:21 -0500</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>did you know I'm an idiot</category></item><item><title>waitress poems</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/06f69255abe1aca3916862fb6fd4b95c/tumblr_inline_mjqcy1SJQQ1qz4rgp.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/3b146d54ac2545c6c460dabe0c16d878/tumblr_inline_mjqcybb1Jk1qz4rgp.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/4b708bb058643303ff86377e1d1ae74c/tumblr_inline_mjqcyi2JJg1qz4rgp.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45463449717</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45463449717</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:49:03 -0500</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/90bbf440e1f767422f74616a9bf25acb/tumblr_mjk6rchOzi1rmam3qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45240373014</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/45240373014</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:46:20 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>this tweet is from my sassy period</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9d1ea1bee1a7da4b6e5cb448f2ed0def/tumblr_mj7cxeAmg51rmam3qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;this tweet is from my sassy period&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44664164048</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44664164048</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:07:13 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>whyamikeenan's The Best of Twitter</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://whyamikeenan.tumblr.com/post/44518742897/whyamikeenans-the-best-of-twitter" target="_blank"&gt;whyamikeenan&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;XXX WILD GIRLS!! GRR THEY’RE FERAL!! SEXY LADIES INCAPABLE OF LANGUAGE AND PAST THE CRITICAL PERIOD TO ACQUIRE IT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aRealLiveGhost/status/166717338543067136" target="_blank"&gt;February 7, 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;p&gt;you can find even more &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aRealLiveGhost" title="@aRealLiveGhost" target="_blank"&gt;@aRealLiveGhost&lt;/a&gt; stuff on &lt;a href="http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/" title="hi" target="_blank"&gt;her very own Real Live Tumblr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;l@@k, I&amp;#8217;m on twitter. I&amp;#8217;m pretty much as on twitter as a human being can possibly be&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44522285245</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44522285245</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:10:44 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>from this tweet</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1bb1e6f159df7b62f6d90133731496ad/tumblr_mj1wew2eNh1rmam3qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/aRealLiveGhost/status/181453383343947776" target="_blank"&gt;this tweet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44399222133</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44399222133</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:34:51 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>tphd:

HI TUMBLR, I’VE GOT A POEM UP AT EVERYDAY GENIUS, CAPPING OFF A BRILLIANT MONTH OF GUEST...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tphd.tumblr.com/post/44236233157/hi-tumblr-ive-got-a-poem-up-at-everyday-genius" target="_blank"&gt;tphd&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HI TUMBLR, I’VE GOT A POEM UP AT EVERYDAY GENIUS, CAPPING OFF A BRILLIANT MONTH OF GUEST EDITING BY STEPHEN TULLY DIERKS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHECK OUT THE WHOLE SHEBANG&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FANTASTIC STUFF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;♥&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013/02/theron-jacobs.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013/02/theron-jacobs.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013/02/theron-jacobs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;check it out my favorite writer is on everyday genius today&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44256208795</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44256208795</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:49:46 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b3ba015309cb2aae1ac7aaaf42af769a/tumblr_miv1t6P2ZY1rtcg9yo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44117382725</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44117382725</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:00:42 -0600</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6c1a724b184f40e7e7ae86adcecea449/tumblr_miv1qxRm3h1rtcg9yo1_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44117275626</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44117275626</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:59:00 -0600</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category></item><item><title>I originally wrote my last two posts 6 months ago for a Thing. now I don&amp;#8217;t like them enough...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I originally wrote my last two posts 6 months ago for a Thing. now I don&amp;#8217;t like them enough for the Thing, but I like them enough to post on tumblr. they are love stories at the end of the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44114649039</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44114649039</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:27:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>we used to use the countertop in our apartment to prepare food. now it is stocked with screwdrivers,...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;we used to use the countertop in our apartment to prepare food. now it is stocked with screwdrivers, electrical tape, and WD-40. once a week, we gently unscrew our cybernetic bits from the ports in our arms and legs and lay all of them out in a row. we clean them and fix any wiring problems and try not to look at the soft dark skin puckering around the docking sites. we are quiet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;today, you are holding a pair of pliers and a smooth aluminum piece of your forearm. I put my hand on your chest. my hand is mostly soft, mostly mine, but there are sharp bits in it. I take the piece you were fixing and turn it over in my palm, exposing the wiring. now, we look at each other. our eyes are soft, ours. I thrust my fingers into the braid of wires. you shudder. I touch it like I used to touch the insides of red peppers before I cooked them. you drop the pliers.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44114537259</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44114537259</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:25:00 -0600</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category></item><item><title>game</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;I want to be the monster this time.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you roll your eyes up to the ceiling and groan, &amp;#8220;you were the monster last time,&amp;#8221; but you are already opening the drawer where we keep all the pretend weapons and some of the real ones. you pick the meter stick. you always pick the meter stick.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I fold my arms across my chest. &amp;#8220;ok, this time you get a ten second head start,&amp;#8221; I tell you, but you hold my eyes for two full seconds before slinking around the corner and into the dark. I give you ten seconds anyway.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hunch over and start sputtering and growling and creeping forward in jerky, halting steps. I learned this game on the playground at school. I learned this game when it really happened to my neighbor&amp;#8217;s daughter. she was two years younger than me. I sniff the air and snort.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can hear you in the hallway so I turn the corner. I let my fingernails sink into the drywall and move slowly. there are no windows in this part of the house. slowly, slowly. I get to the end and you are not there, so I wait. I wait for a minute and a half. I groom myself where the fur is supposed to be.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;then: the walls creak. I look up, and you. you, smiling, clinging between the walls with your arms and legs. you fall onto me with a shriek and we topple and roll down the hallway, me growling and slashing and you batting at me with the meter stick. I rip it out of your hands and throw it into the other room and pin you. we&amp;#8217;re breathing hard.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;you can go ahead and eat me, I guess,&amp;#8221; you whisper, and so I move to your stomach and lift up your shirt. I nuzzle the skin there and make biting and slurping sounds until you start laughing and pull me back up to your face. &amp;#8220;baby,&amp;#8221; you say, and we kiss.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44113821578</link><guid>http://arealliveghost.tumblr.com/post/44113821578</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:17:00 -0600</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category></item></channel></rss>
