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With every choice you made, you took responsibility. That it was irreversible, irretrievable, that it would screw tight the lid, prohibit the path to more choices. That out of all those liberating, mesmerizing options you could choose something bony, fetid, barren. And with that decision, you would have inflicted unhappiness (tragedy, even!) with your very own hand.

Irina Reyn, from What Happened to Anna K.

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"It means - someone who takes a stance against something, but then goes on to do that exact thing. Kind of like having your cake and eating it, I guess. Another way of calling someone a hypocrite."

LONGLEGS x MABEL Episode Four: Datura

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But silence has never stopped me from praying. Alive, how many nights did I spend knelt between the knees of gods and men begging for rain, rent, and reasons to remain?

— Saeed Jones, from "A Memory," Alive at the End of the World

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i was reading a scientific article, margaret atwood

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By the mountain

I feel nothing

For in my own heart

Every tree is broken

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The Music or The Misery

by Hanif Abdurraqib

I do not mean the cartoon heart. the one that swells from the wolfs chest. when distracted by a girl wolf. his tongue rolling onto the hot pavement. right before the anvil drops from an impossible height. and he is crushed again. foiled by a man's hunger. I say “heart” and mean the actual heart. I saw my heart in the eyes of my mother. it was too small to save her. I wrote my heart in a poem. it took up the whole bedroom. it doesn't pay rent. it stays up watching cities burn to the ground. I am so sorry that you have nowhere to sit. I just loved someone yesterday. so you see the dilemma. I just promised someone that I would watch them grow old in a country that wants them dead. so I just can't spare any more room. here. take this mixtape I made. it is just 30 minutes of the wind. how it sounds when being cut by something heavy. falling from the sky. making an endlessly dark shadow at my feet. while I blow a kiss.

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-Rumi

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9-3-23

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from the first 50 pages of two or three things i know for sure by dorothy allison

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the house by Warsan Shire