May 2013
8 posts
another reminder.
the world is heavy but your bones (just a cubic inch) can hold 19,000 lbs
ounce for ounce they are stronger than steel
atom for atom you are more precious than diamond
and stars have died so that you may live
you need to remember these things when you say that you are weak and worthless
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up”
– Shane Koyczan, The Student
April 2013
14 posts
“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at...”
– Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers
“And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself
get a better mirror...”
– Shane Koyczan
March 2013
8 posts
“men
want to fix you
save you
or fuck you
I can’t be fixed
and I don’t...”
– Jeanann Verlee, men
February 2013
5 posts
Loneliness, don't fool me into caring
I have to remind myself that I don’t like you, I just like how strongly your lack of love for me contrasts him.
fragments
you told me once, while weaving your fingers in and out of mine, laying on your stomach, how in japan there is a practice of repairing broken pottery with gold laquer to show that something is beautiful to have been broken
i woke up to gold lines around my bruises and broken bones, circles lining my elbows and knees/following my bloodlines through and through to my fingertips
and now there is...
January 2013
5 posts
“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
December 2012
5 posts
russian roulette
We began by playing Russian Roulette with our teeth instead of with bullets.
Our bodies are syllables that have to be strung together like pebbles
in order to form words:
“undress” used to be my favorite one,
until I learned your name.
In high school my father ran over 23 deer in our old beat-up Volvo
on his way to work, but never stopped
to bury a single one. He told me, years later, that...
November 2012
16 posts
“Here’s what our parents never taught us:
You will stay up on your rooftop...”
– “Here’s What Our Parents Never Taught Us,” Shinji Moon
“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all....”
– Charles Bukowski 