February 2012
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detachment. bodies. prescriptions. healing bruises. catching colds. mouths. broken skin. skipping meals. low lives.
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down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/down/downers.
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
– The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (via vashti)
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i saw the veins and the nerves that run through my mouth pulled out today. red, long, strings lying across a silver dish.
“I loved them, according to the hallowed expression, which amounts to saying that...”
– Albert Camus
“Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– The Iliad (via narcosis)
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the places on my skin where concrete touched are turning shades of pastel green and pale yellow. flecks of deep maroons and purples. i keep pushing my fingers into the raw and i am certain my skin has never looked so beautiful as it does now. i am water colors on a pale canvas.
“I exist here, now. I’m not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely...”
– Yohji Yamamoto, My dear Bomb (via vashti)
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via funeral)
i want to die.
“Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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i confide in wolves at night. i'm like a virgin...
“You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why...”
– Clive Barker
today, i will be a ghost.
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“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night,...”
– Haruki Murakami
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I AM AWAKE IN A PLACE WHERE WOMEN DIE.
THE BIRD TURNS ITS HEAD AND LOOKS AT ME WITH ONE EYE AS YOU ENTER.
MY BREASTS ARE SO SWOLLEN THAT I BITE THEM
YOUR AWFUL LANGUAGE IS IN THE AIR BY MY HEAD
I DO NOT LIKE TO WALK BECAUSE I FEEL IT BETWEEN MY LEGS
HAIR IS STUCK INSIDE ME
MY NOSE BROKE IN THE GRASS. MY EYES ARE SORE MOVING AGAINST YOUR PALM.
I HAVE THE BLOOD JELLY.
WITH YOU INSIDE ME COMES THE...
