devil's advocate

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[bookinng]

i want to stop thinking. i want to stop noticing. i want to stop realizing. i want to stop knowing. how can i ever stop knowing?

[skylark-234]

[letsbeapoemtogether]

June Gehringer, “I get so jealous of euthanized dogs”

[honeywine0]

[feral-ballad]

Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”

[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]

[weltenwellen]

Abigail Chabitnoy, from "Quliyangua’uciikamken"

[hel7l7]

[feral-ballad]

Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Retroactive jealousy”

[Text ID: “Someday I’ll care for something / without wanting to close a door behind it.”]

[taurus-sun222-deactivated202507]

I don’t want a passionate love that is consuming like fire anymore. I want passionate love like how a gardener loves their flowers.

[izzy444angel]

this is me all day

[stuckinapril]

having short-term memory is like. this book profoundly affected me. that show bared my soul. i don’t remember a single thing about it. but it did

[metamorphesque]

"I Loved You", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Antony Wood)

[metamorphesque]

― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

[primadxnnagirl]

[esnupinaa]

Yo ahora

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

[wedarkacademia]