[I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my religion - Love is my religion - I could dke for that - I could die for you.]
[My favorite part's when I die / In your arms like a movie]
[My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.]
[I said I loved her back. I put my hand on the door and I said I loved her back and when I said it I thought of kissing her and also of shooting her through the eye.]
[It's winter. You ask me about love / and I tell you about violence. / I'm sorry. / I thought that that's what love was. / It's all the same anyway. / Love is never what you want it to be. It can be better but it can be worse.]
[I always knew that you would hurt me to death some day, but I hoped to choose the time and place.]
[You'll always be like a nightmare to me / And I'll always be begging for sleep]
[[on a firsr date] so the figs and the wasps rely on each other to live in the end even though the wasp dies inside the fig the figs cannot live on without the wasp and the wasps cannot live on without the fig to lay their eggs in. don't you see how this is love in its purest form? would you be the wasp or the fig?]
[a four panel comic titled "sun". the first panel shows a black and white figure in profile looking up at a yellow figure with orange hair extending around its head like sun beams. the second panel shows the yellow figure facing foward and saying 'you should not look at me. I know it hurts you.' the third panel shows the black and white figure at an angle, looking up with wide eyes. a speech bubble shows the yellow figure, out of frame, saying 'why do you not look away?'. the fourth panel shows the black and white figure through the yellow figure's hair, making them orange, as they look up and say 'you're beautiful.']
devotion/destruction
john keats/kishi bashi/charles bukowksi/catherynne m. valente/heavensghost/rebecca west/sorority noise/saintophelia/mayaparker8