I'm in love. Or, at least, I'm in the first stages of being in love. You know, when you desperately want to say it but you know that whatever you feel now is nothing to what you'll feel if it lasts - and, hell, you're already kind of wary of even thinking the word "love", much less saying it out loud ( Read more... )

be kind to those you love and be kind to those you don't, but for god's sake you've gotta be kind.

“Some people protest carrying signs. Some people protest by making activist radical music. Sometimes people try to just make it through a day and not kill themselves, and that’s their activism for right then, because that’s all they have.”
- Kathleen Hanna

""Take the dream job and don’t look back. Don’t ask him to wait for you. That’s not fair, nor is it realistic. You have to accept that moving across the country for half a decade will be the end of the relationship. It doesn’t make you a bad person, nor does it make you selfish.""

Josie,
Remember this five months from now.
Love,
Josie

I'll sleep on the fucking floor until my bed stops reeking of you.

Lips
smacked
against
other
girls

and my eyes
sunken
to the floor

this is
my kind of
party.

Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?” No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.

either I just got kicked in the teeth or time has changed me.

“The other night it was really truly finally summer and I left my friend’s house alone on my bike. Sped along the bar-studded edge of gentrification. Plucked from the multi-tangle of side roads a skein to follow home. Skidded into the park next to our building. And collapsed. And actually saw, no, looked up at the stars. Which frankly is a movie- ( Read more... )

I want the butterfly brigade to grant me a year of no stomach drama.