jene elizabeth

sometimes i write.

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like two polaroid pictures left kissing in the sun, we slowly peal apart the originals …

they will never be the same.

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study the hurt, rinse & repeat. re-treat yourself to this World & Her Why’s; Her illuminated dissonance and Her constant Demand,

“ R e p l y ! ”

be brave, dear Heart. enjoy the Bleed.

Study the hurt. Rinse. Repeat.

-j.e. cortlandt

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do you have patience to wait until the mud settles and the water is clear?

lao tzu 

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"and though in your winter you deny your spring, yet Spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended." -kahlil gibran perception is one of the greatest tools we have in this life (something I have been reminded of a lot lately). challenege yourself: tilt your head and shift your glance a bit - watch how the Story of Life shuffles and reshapes Itself around you.

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if you want others to be happy, practice compassion. if you want to be happy, practice compassion.

dalai lama

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"time is a created thing. to say 'i don't have time,' is like saying, 'i don't want to."

Lao Tzu

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cut to spite

Cut

to spite;

to not face

the lonesome 

tongue’s 

Taste -

that Hunger hurts

but Starving’s 

worse …

right?

-j.e. cortlandt

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your tea is cold now. drink it standing up, and leave the house.

edna st vincent millay

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life is a series of natural & spontaneous changes. do not resist them - that only creates sorrow. let reality be reality. let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

lao tzu

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your sightless

See.

your formless

Be.

your tasteless

Tongue

(selling wrapt,

for wrung),

claiming known

what is clearly

Chaste.

your broken

ha-

ste.

your empty Go's.

your would be Woes.

your scriptless Shows,

now

demanding

"Read."

-j.e. cortlandt

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there is no shelter in you anywhere.

edna st vincent millay

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trading Shares &

kisses.

the Misses

we've mourned.

these grief

adorned

Glances.

this

skin.

this

chin

to chest.

this

Rest-carved flesh,

hollowed and pink.

This Trusting

Sink

of ex

/

to in-

hale,

softening Speak

and

Sliding

Scale

(Balanced then,

alone

. . .

now

Tilting

Home,

of sorts).

-j.e.cortlandt

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teach

by

Being.

by

Freeing

y

  o

  u

  r

______

  S

  e

  l

  f

again.

Strip.

Learn

  from the Lessen.

-j.e. cortlandt

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"here it is: one more. one less. another wasted love story.

i really loved this one.

  when i think that it’s over; that i’ll never see him again like this … well, yes - i’ll bump into him. we’ll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, and act as if we had never been together.

… then we’ll slowly think of each other less and less. until we forget each other completely … almost …”

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let go of me: i’ve

been the last on your mind for

the very last time. 

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I'd say in some ways he's the most mature person I've ever met, and in other ways he has not yet been born.

GIRLS

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tangent.

i will only touch you once. and it will only be in passing. no use calling me back for more. you will have plenty of time to rehearse and remember this moment, to convince yourself we'll never part.

-eugene gullievic