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[plainwater-pdf]

[louisegluck]

Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

[yourgirlfoe]

Ya'll ever go, "fuckin' hell, I know this smell!" and it's the smell of a February evening from 2017 ?

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, from "Love“

[stupidkupi]

my eyes, blurring

in their sockets, are still my father’s.

my mouth, my mother’s. what parts of me are not

borrowed, pieced together from other bodies?

even this poor reflection is proof I was cut

from a body, born an animal.

'i'm a monster' maggie smith

[stupidkupi]

it was like when the wolf ate chalk to soften his voice, but the white goats knew him by his black paws.

'the list of dangers' maggie smith

[stupidkupi]

life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children.

'good bones' maggie smith

[stupidkupi]

if you love me, henry. you don't love me in a way i understand.

richard siken

[stupidkupi]

the cage is open. you can walk out anytime you want. why are you still in there?

unknown

[stupidkupi]

the dog that weeps after it kills is no better than the dog that doesn't. my guilt will not purify me.

unknown

[stupidkupi]

show yourself to me:

are you someone to love or are you a myth i created?

[stupidkupi]

then i realized that we all think we might be terrible people. but we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. it is a kind of undressing.

miranda july

[stupidkupi]

& he forgives you

dogs are like that

so loyal

dead dogs are just happy you're here

'let dead dogs lie' silas denver melvin

[stupidkupi]

sometimes i worry i'll never leave my mother's table

unknown

[stupidkupi]

i'll love you like a dog

and you'll betray me like a man

unknown

[stupidkupi]

i will leave such an imprint on your heart that anyone you entertain after me will have to know me in order to understand you

unknown

[takemetobogman]

when sylvia plath said "i am, i am, i am" and flatsound said "i exist, i exist, i exist" to basically tell people that it's okay if you have to remind yourself of your existence sometimes.