#julykings

[whelf]

I was blessed on my lunch walk

[wednesdaybirth]

SUBJECT: IMPORTANT, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU GET THIS (may 2023)

[sadierosesound]

wow! look at this brain you built!

i mean, i know

all of the branches… all of the layers

I know about the structure, about the caving in, about the world and the way it was never supposed to be

I know you, I see what you see

what it is, what’s at stake

to be hid, but…

I back you up, I take you out

I call your name, I hold you now

you and i

you and i babe

we talk like never before.

[sadierosesound]

ya did good today, kiddo

I tell myself

again

each day

new words, packed with gentle sentiment

a new tradition

something to come home to

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

gay cowboy love poem (2019) - @/julykings on tumblr

“wyoming & nevada do not exist”

[directlyfrompluton]

[strandedstar]

they mention her name and it takes you a moment. a second to remember it  it’s terrible and painful like remembering fruit baskets in street markets and broken bread and sweet red wine 

you never meant to forget. no one ever does   there’s wires: crossed and uncrossed, tangled and braided and knotted and terminated 

you’re scared of the hands on the clock and the numbers on the screen. you’re scared of the way dates change and hair greys and you don’t remember what it’s like anymore. to play pretend. to read books and see gods and beasts in front of you, vivid and real 

flesh and blood feels mortal now. heroes seem fallible. the world is quiet, and it is cold, and it is overrun, but it is lonely. 

in the dilapidated city streets that smell of despair you remember. and you need bottles and smoke, now, to ever feel alive 

once upon a time there were other souls beside you. once upon a time you laughed together and drank together and sang together and yelled together and fought together and cried together and breathed together 

and now you are alone and the world is spinning and it hurts to remember her name.  but it hurts even more to forget it again.

on isolation / s.

[spirkenjoyer]

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