Pretty Boy

Stephen | he/him | cancer | NY Old, Ugly, and Loving it

[my-aesthetic-vibes]

NYC Moon

[kintay]

A poem, an exercise in omitting letters.

by Thomas Penny

[synqra]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpxb7LgALnD/

[nanavani-blog]

asari no drowing (japanese painting)

[lifeinpoetry]

i cry on the toilet i want her back but not her // more like an ideal her open with her loving this is going nowhere i wash my face there is no point in feeding this ache with more thrashes

—  Jill Khoury, from “Washing my face before bed, mother’s day 2018,” published in Inverted Syntax

[eliminated]

[gibliv]

!!!!!!!!justmaybe!!!!!!!!!!

[loucretia]

[lifeinpoetry]

My body is just a vehicle

to move me so I leave it

here, on the dirt floor.

— Elizabeth Schmuhl, from “#39,” Premonitions

[lifeinpoetry]

“I am afraid of being seen. / I am afraid of being named.”

— Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, from “EVERY DAY WAS ORDINARY,” published in Granta

[ricem1lk]

[thesymski]

you are the dancing queen

young and sweet

this bitch empty yeet

[qsk-deactivated20191002]

who am i lets go tot he ᴮᴱᴬᶜᴴ ᴮᴱᴬᶜᴴ

[qsk-deactivated20191002]

ninki minjaj

[lifeinpoetry]

My latest hobby is screaming. I scream into things. It was just pillows at first, now it is anything I think can hold my trauma.

I have haunted the whole house.

— Rachel Wiley, from “Notes on Depression,” Nothing Is Okay

[lifeinpoetry]

​find god in the line of your jaw and break it

— Kanika Lawton, from “Girl as Burning,” Wildfire Heart

[lifeinpoetry]

And everything enchanting feels As if you are falling through the sky Like a wounded god

Sandra Simonds, from “A Poem for Leftists,” published in Berfrois (via lifeinpoetry)

[lifeinpoetry]

I wanted to be loved more than I wanted to be alive. For so long

I thought not to be loved is good but to be loved is to be good.

All those years, convinced — surely I must be bad, the way you keep punishing me.

— Leila Chatti, from “Faulty,” published in Prairie Schooner

[yoursummerdreamz]