LOVESICK.

I suppose we wear our traumas the way the guillotine wears gravity; our lovers' necks are so soft

[inkskinned]

i am barely wearing my skin. i used to dream i’d be abducted by aliens and made perfect by their technology. the perfection always hurt to obtain. in the morning, i would file how i felt into a folder and burn it. what can you tell another person? i am so full of drowning that good air hurts for its unfamiliarity.

[fatmaalzahraa]

[dahliaborne]

The Black Hole, Michael Ryan

[weltenwellen]

Safiya Sinclair, from “In Childhood Certain Skies Refined My Seeing”, Cannibal

[reductos]

“Being in control of my own destruction has always seemed like a solution for it.”

— Rachel Cusk, on her smoking habit, as cited in Olivia Sudjic’s Exposure (via lifeinpoetry)

[weltenwellen]

Marya Hornbacher, Waiting

[weltenwellen]

Claudia Rankine, from “There was a time”, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

[weltenwellen]

Adonis, trans. Khaled Mattawa, from ‘Celebrating Childhood’, Selected Poems

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[weltenwellen]

Claudia Rankine, from “Cornel West makes the point…“, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

[angria]

“Speaking to the broken and the dead is too difficult for a mouth full of blood.”

— The Source of Self-Regard: The Dead of September 11 by Toni Morrison (via angelsinthewater)

[isabelladjanis]

THE NEW WORLD dir.Terrence Malick

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

so do you want to educate yourself and others or do you derive pleasure from the idea of being ideologically superior to others?

[reductos]

“Being in control of my own destruction has always seemed like a solution for it.”

— Rachel Cusk, on her smoking habit, as cited in Olivia Sudjic’s Exposure (via lifeinpoetry)

[inkskinned]

Actually the pressure to constantly be monetising, expanding, providing "worth" through passions and hobbies can complete drain each of the little joys in your life until they are nothing.

If you don't have a strong talent, you aren't considered "well rounded," you're considered behind. If your talent is in the arts, it's "a long shot" and you need to practice 24/7 and you should be doing commissions not personal work. If you're just really good at something that doesn't provide potential profit - at knowing when to reach out to friends, at finding good trials to hike, at sunbathing - you are told you have no good traits.

I work on my writing because I love to write. And I just wonder... Where people would be if the world just said "do it for the love of it" and not - where is the money in that?

[dearestvita-deactivated20221122]

In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.

Richard Siken, from I Had a Dream About You (via dearestvita)

[weltenwellen]

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet