Escape Addict

Your existence is fundamental. 

[ffaattiih]

Stanczyk - Jan Matejko

[essential-existential]

the memories are fading and so am i

[essential-existential]

in the chaos of it all

the world taught me to fight

for what I wanted

when i had already lost it,

when it was already gone;

and, in the same vein,

it tried to show me

when to let go

when I was desperately clinging

on to something that wasn't mine:

teeth clenched like a wolf under the moon.

and I'm still learning,

still making every damn mistake there is

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, from “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

[essential-existential]

i bloom in sacrifice:

let every

charm confess

and scatter

[essential-existential]

you were in my dreams again last night

you with that face and your lips--

and I cannot write

anymore, it's all trivial:

my attempts to caress

and undress the mystery of us,

lost to time--turned physical dust.

how to address a therapist in an hour session

and reduce it all to a simple story

of another boy obsessed?

how to convey what can only be known

by the experiential?

[essential-existential]

And the sunlight clasps the earth

And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What is all this sweet work worth

If thou kiss not me?

[essential-existential]

'i need somebody and always' tom

vs

'i need someone to love me the whole day through' neil

[metamorphesque]

The Trouble with Being Born, E. M. Cioran (translated by Richard Howard)

[shisasan]

December 8, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 2]

[metamorphesque]

"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[shisasan]

𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[flowerytale]

Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

[weltenwellen]

Saeed Jones, "Aretha Franklin Hears an Echo While Singing "Save Me", Alive at the End of the World

[weltenwellen]

Erika L. Sánchez, from "Departure"

[metamorphesque]

"The Burial of Manon Lescaut" by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret "Manon Lescaut" by Antoine François Prévost

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