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on trans day of remembrance the community came together to have an event, including this being read by a local poet. and I know all you people will eat it up as much as I did

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+ i want to kick and scream for you to hear me. i want you to be as pathetic for me as i am for you

@endlessnamelesseternity

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in another life i am easier to love and easier to handle

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SMALL DOG SYNDROME 

small dog you’re so funny when you snap small dog you’re so funny when you shake small dog you’re so bad when you bark small dog you never learned the rules

small dog lays flat on the floor  and sighs and whines  while it waits for you to come back from wherever you go  all day small dog doesn’t know if you’re coming home small dog hides under the bed to puke does it quiet eats its shame before you ever smell it  small dog’s bark is worse than its bite  small dog you are so funny when you bite  small dog it’s so funny when you’re mad  so by all means pick it up throw it around  lock it in a cage while you laugh small dog you are so funny when you cry

small dog can’t remember being a wolf  can’t remember being big  howling in harpstring harmony  like a plucked and quivering note in a catacomb  sleeping in a warm pile of bodies in a dry place that smells like family  the taste of fresh hot blood and wet bone iron fire honey salt 

small dog run free beneath the moon in your dreams

small dog is so happy you’re home!! small dog loves you!!!

JMGD

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E.M. Forster from Maurice (1971)

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deep deep inside in your heart you know its true. dont avoid it. dont run. don't doubt yourself. embrace it with the fullness that you would hope another would embrace you. you cant ignore it forever. itll fester in there for the rest of your life until you die. let it out. let it out. cradle it closely with the warmth of your heart. treat it like a child. give it the empathy of another child. give it what it needs to blossom. inside of you and out. you know its true.

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PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

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mary oliver, staying alive

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Jenny Holzer.

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Poem by Leslie J Anderson.

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oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

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“If I can make my language flat enough, exact enough, if I can rinse each sentence clean enough, like washing a stone over and over again in river water, if I can find the right perch or crevice from which to record everything, if I can give myself enough white space, maybe I could do it. I could tell you this story while walking out of this story.” — Maggie Nelson, from The Red Parts

“I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything…I want to tell you this story without having to be in it.” — Richard Siken, from The Torn-Up Road

“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.” — Tim O'Brien from The Things They Carried

“In order to record a tale, something must always be lost. Some things must be left unsaid and disguised. The art of storytelling, his brother said, is all about where and how to leave the voids.” — Lindsey Drager, from The Archive of Alternate Endings

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by strongerpotions on twitter

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on self-hatred

? // carrie, 1976 // ask polly: help, i'm the loneliest person in the world, heather havrilesky // blood wedding and yerma, federico garcia lorca // nicole rifkin // ? // the stream of life, clarice lispector

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Signalis (2022) [H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival] /Sagittarius A* / Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates / Outer Wilds (2020) / Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics? / Drain for overflowing water at Sambuco Dam, Lavizzara Valley / ? / Thomasin Frances, Hole Theory (15/10/2022) / Bryan’s Ground, a public garden in Herefordshire on the Welsh border. / odd, weird, strange and unusual / Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves / Evil (2019-2014) / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / Illustration of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 from “A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy”, Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886) / @imdad_barbhuyan on Instagram / The moon’s Copernicus crater. Through magic glasses. 1890. / Kaveh Akbar / Dune (2021) / x / Dmitry Kochanovich, Epiphany (Russian,b. 1972) / The Silt Verses, Chapter 41: But As My Last Breath Splits My Throat / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, The Camp is a Bait for Time / Darina Muravjeva, Hole / Hilde Heynen in Heterotopia and the City / x / Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers / x /  Louise Glück, from Descending Figure / Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. / Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried; from “A Letter To Love” / Lara de Moor, Orb (2014) / Sam Sax, Pig / The National - Wake Up Your Saints / Aleksander Rostov / Sanna Wani, from “Princess Mononoke (1997)”, My Grief, the Sun / Gregory Orr, [i want to go back] / Thomas Ott / ? / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room / Massive sinkhole swallows house in Florida / Edna St Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952) /Silent Hill 4 (2004) / @/vren-diagram / Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t / Law of Holes / Scarlet Hollow (2021) / China Miéville, from Railsea

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