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When Anne Carson said "I feel so lonely, like childhood again." and when Ryan O'Connell said "I don't want to have to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It's mortifying. It's mortifying to be the one who remembers." and when Gregory Orr said "Childhood dotted with bodies. Let them go, let them be ghosts. 'No,' I said, 'make them stay, make them stone.'"

pinktinselmonstrosity

no thoughts head empty just the last shot of derry girls being grandda joe and his youngest grandchild walking out of the polling station hand in hand. the old and the young, walking together into the future of ireland......... i'm not crying you're crying

butterflypeaflowertea

every so often i remember this poem by langston hughes & am inconsolable

serratedpens

Reginald Dwayne Betts “BALLAD OF THE GROUNDHOG”

keremelcream

richard siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “war of foxes”

heavensghost

my favourite quote by Richard Siken

humanwithnohead

“My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.”

— Joë Bousquet (via mirroir)

anditslove

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

luthienne

“This is terrible, I’m so terribly sick, and tired. I want rest. Won’t you give me peace? I want peace.”

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. 1, 1931-1934

weltenwellen

“I was wounded early and early I learned that wounds made me.”

— Adonis, from ‘Celebrating Childhood’, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

abdullahsj1

I know it will pass, but it’s heavy

jb-blunk

in this terrifying world you continuously have the power to offer someone else a little relief . why would you withhold that. do you remember what a little relief feels like? it feels like a lot