I avoid looking down at my body, not as much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Yea, relating to song lyrics is slightly sad... but... it's been a Mary Jo day.

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Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

~Emily Dickinson

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"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n"

~John Milton Paradise Lost, Book I

I am no doubt not the only one
who writes in order to have no face.

~ Michel Foucault

It is your turn now,
you waited, you were patient.
The time has come,
for us to polish you.
We will transform your inner pearl
into a house of fire.
You're a gold mine.
Did you know that,
hidden in the dirt of the earth?
It is your turn now,
to be placed in fire.
Let us cremate your impurities.

~Rumi

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