first rule of holes: keep digging
poem of the end, marina tsvetaeva / have you been long enough at the table, leslie sainz / @inneskeeper / the charismatic church asks me how i have sinned, janelle tan / blud, rachel mckibbens / leslie feinberg / @aforlorngazeintoyesterday / nonbeliever, lucy dacus / the cow, ariana reines / the wee free men, terry pratchett
[Image Description: Ten images of text on white backgrounds.
1: “Either love is / -A shrine? / or else a scar.” Or else a scar is highlighted in a pale yellow colour.
2: “can you stomach it? / Anyway, you eat it. You eat it anyway.”
3: “ Oh sunk cost fallacy, we’re really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in”
4: “let me fail myself. let me call / love an unanswered prayer. let me be / the very tip of the knife / that touches grace.”
5: “Obedience in the wrong house is a kind of plague,
survivor’s guilt a slight of hand. No outrunning / your blood’s calamity, so you gather your teeth
& dig your trenches, tell your stories but never come clean.”
6: “Did I survive? I guess I did. But only because I knew I might get home to you.” The whole line is written in italics.
7: “doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.”
8: “You deal an unspoken debt / No kindness without wanting something back / What do I owe you? What did I forget? / Are we even after all of that?”
9: “There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.”
10: “All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!
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