mom, am i still young? can i dream for a few months more?
unknown / Maia Baia / Ethel Cain Family Tree / Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest / @/honeytuesday (on tumblr) / Lorde Writer in the Dark / Lidia Yuknavitch Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
i. unknown
[ "My mother is where it begins. / She and I are at war. / Our relation is hatred." ]
ii. Maia Baia
[ "Mother / Eat me and give birth to me again // This time around I'll make you proud" ]
iii. Ethel Cain, Family Tree
[ "I'm just a child but I'm not above violence / My mama raised me better than that" ]
iv. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
[ "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, that is his." ]
v. @/honeytuesday
[ "mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each otehr: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be." ]
vi. Lorde, Writer in the Dark
[ "I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops / I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me" ]
vii. Lidia Yuknavitch, Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
[ "Or was my rage my mother's? Or her mother's? Or hers? An inherited creature?" ]
Man I hope they cancel standardized testing, any education professional can tell you it’s a bunch of useless horseshit that does nothing except make students and teachers miserable while utterly failing to accurately gauge understanding.
@handoverthehands it’s from Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. Referenced as well in Spirit of the Radio by Rush and again in Disturbed’s cover of the original.