This Will Destroy You

Long Island, NY

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Just a blip on the timeline

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Margaret Atwood, “Up.”

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Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver

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“I’d spent the last three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so I wouldn’t drip with blood every time I brushed up against something.”

— White Oleander, Janet Fitch (via decreation)

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from Broken/Unbroken by Richard Siken

[text ID: People stuck in bodies moving through space and time. / You realize you’re a thing taking up space and casting a shadow. /end ID]

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Maggie Nelson, from The Argonauts

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“How can I teach her some way of being human that won’t destroy her? I would like to tell her, Love is enough, I would like to say, Find shelter in another skin.”

— Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986, ‘Solstice Poem’ by Margaret Atwood

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“I’m abandoning everything! everything! and that way I won’t be abandoned—”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Departure of the Train”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

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Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver

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I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964

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Make-Up inspired by a frame of “Kirkstall Abbey” by George Lambert by Sofia Foiera

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