we were just kids

he offered her the world but she said she had her own.

[valentina-poem]

[vibrantley]

[heavensghost]

but I knew how to dress it up

[serialghost]

i need him like water / he lives on a landslide / i cry in his bathroom / he turns off the big light

[whyisntketchupasmoothie]

They told me all of my cages were mental,.............so I got wasted like all my potential...............and my words shoot to kill when I’m mad,......I have a lot of regrets about that

[lifeinpoetry]

this is my body and i am terrified of the space it takes up

— Mary Lambert, from “Why I Slept With Makeup on for Five Years,” Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across

[sustancy]

[imposer]

unknown

[asoftwrongness]

instagram | prints

[love]

The X-Files (1994)

[millthompson]

[polkadotmotmot]

Otto Duecker - Earth Shakers, 1999

[heavensghost]

I bet you think about me

[valentina-poem]

[unchildhood]

MARGARET ATWOOD

‘November’, You Are Happy (1974);

original photos and edit

[valentina-poem]

[andtenderness-deactivated202601]

“The impulse to know someone else before you reveal yourself. The impulse to know someone else because you have never been asked to reveal yourself. The impulse to know someone else because otherwise, you do not know yourself.”

— Yanyi, from Diary