It's because that day in my life. That day in my life, I dreamt tomorrow had a prettier face. I dreamt tomorrow would have better things to say than, "you look like shit, what's your problem, bitch? You're legs feel like sandpaper, you can't do anything right.Because that day never should have taken place. Because this day in my life still cannot ( Read more... )

studio apartments do not allow you to not know yourself.

Walls are empty, floors are messy like I left them
But now it seems I'm going in a different direction
I can't believe I'm a stranger in my own room
Feel like nothing is mine, no, it all belongs to you

Monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. I often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of old lovers returning returing; Woman like myself help bring them back: but, we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth ( Read more... )

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

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Dear _______,

You're away for now and I'm  crawling through landmines just to know where you are! There's smoke in my eyes because you're burning the ground. Where'd you go?? Not so far please, don't go, not too far, not so far. I found your ring with the feather on, one arm in and one arm gone. Oh, my dear, my love do you know, my love?

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eraser head made me throw up on my boyfriend. 

"it’s dark now and i am very tired. i love you, always. time is nothing."
-audrey niffenegger

No one knows how I'm feeling, and I don't care. Only you do. Ditto is all we can say because, because, words don't explain how spiritual this feels, how exotic and how long. I've been pulled through time. You are like family. I've always wanted to go, go ( Read more... )

it's too early for the circus, it's too late for the bars, no one's sleepin' but the paperboys, and no one in this town is makin' any noise, but the dogs and the milkmen and me. the girls around here all look like cadillacs, no onelikes a stranger here, i'd trade off everything just to have you near. - tom

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