0 0 . @ltghost . . jolene . . ⧽ ° ✽ ｡ ⧼
JOLENE HAS BETTER DAYS : those are the days she goes without speaking to her father . playing to humor , their thriving landscapes are silence + meaningless banter , words that never come or words that sink shallow . she’s raised in the graveyard of his loves , the yearning that never fades , the affection he never quite places so stable --------- he chokes on the ghost of his father , + jolene chokes on the ghost of a mother or woman she’s never truly known , save for her quiet disdain that placed her at her father’s doorstep . her father wouldn’t know this well , but he knows the tired grief of his dead father like the back of his hand , + jolene could shoot darts to grasp at the grief of her mother . it’s all hands + teeth , broken skin that patches in weird places , bones that heal wrong in every fragment . she wonders if her rage is inherited from her father’s or inherited from the lack of her mother ; we all have vacant closets with imagined ghosts . “ god , i could use another shot . ”