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There is no way out.

But I keep hoping.

I should do something else.

A: "Do you know what this means? Do you know -- when you're bruising easily?"

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how melancholy sex is for a woman. even when it is pleasurable, there is always that violet haze of gloom hovering somewhere above you, drifting near that corner of the ceiling where you've fixed your gaze at certain intervals. if a man ever took the time to kiss the nooks of my elbows, i suppose i might feel differently, but even then i have my ( Read more... )

so, quite unexpectedly, i've been offered a summer internship in NYC. i will tell you all the details later! but right now i'm a total nervous wreck over finding suitable housing at the last minute in an unfamiliar city. i don't even know what i should be looking for, really! right now i'm considering subletting a place in brooklyn heights. is that ( Read more... )

When Things Were Sweet and Good

I know what the foreign hair ribbon

curled like a pink satin cobra

under our bathroom sink

means.

Remember when I told you I was seven,

And how I told you how I grew up a swamp baby.

How Jess and I would play Indians in the stinking mud

And the honeysuckle vines that weren’t honeysuckle,

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i've been a terrible diarist lately. isn't diarist a grotesque word? but it's a word just the same--i just looked it up!

r. and i are broken up forever now. i got caught cheating. r. and i never ever fucked! and if we did i pinched my eyes shut and worried about whether we should take henrietta bean to the vet for her stomatitis and whether there ( Read more... )

( anthony's noelle )

i. natasha in carroll gardensnatasha and i are to reunite for the first time in four years. she is so typically late coming to meet me, which leaves me alone for two hours with the foreignness of the city, alone to worry whether we have lost our instinct for one another after so many years. but then she does come, finally, clutching her pilled ( Read more... )