#literary sexts

[derangedrhythms]

I dreamt last night of your teeth on my skin. 

Michael Cantin, from ‘Literary Sexts’

[mafaldaknows]

X

[asoftepiloguemylove]

and i don't wanna be my mom's least favorite only child anymore

unknown / Destiny Fieldplate Gauntlets Description / Cheekface I Only Say I'm Sorry When I'm Wrong Now / Tanaka Mhishi Literary Sexts /@/grievng (on tumblr) / Mary Lu The Young Elites / Marie Howe After the Movie / Mary Oliver North Country / unknown / Susan Sontag excerpt from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

i. unknown

[ "young, corrupted by tragedies of war and exile / alone in spite of himself / boy made of ash and a honey soaked dawn / rust on his hands, in his throat, in his lungs / bright-eyed, rough edges, scraped raw and twisted with time / where is his soft epilogue?" ]

ii. Destiny, Fieldplate Gauntlets Description

[ "Ignore every instinct to flee. Remember: you are a monster too." ]

iii. Tanaka Mhishi, Literary Sexts

[ "I am fragile and unholy. / Open. Ravage. Eat." ]

iv. @/grievng

[ "im so fucking angry that no one ever protected me and no one was ever in my fucking corner when i was a kid its not fucking fair" ]

v. Marie Lu, The Young Elites

[ "So. Tell me, little wolf. Would you like to punish those who have wronged you?" ]

vi. Cheekface, I Only Say I'm Sorry When I'm Wrong Now

[ "You're no longer fine / With the way that things are / Your heroes are dead / And so I guess you are the hero now" ]

vii. Marie Howe, After the Movie

[ "My friend Michael and I are walking home / arguing about the movie. / He says that he believes a person can love someone / and still be able to murder that person." ]

viii. Mary Oliver, North Country

[ "and gorgeous. You listen and you know you could live a better life than you do, be softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will be able to do it. Hear how his voice" ]

ix. unknown

[ "What happens when you get older / is you get over it. You buy flowers / to set on the table. You say your prayers. // You learn to live alone / the way you learned to love / everything // not dead."]

x. Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

[ "I suffer from a chronic nausea-after I'm with people. The awareness (after-aware-ness) of how programmed I am, how insecure, how frightened." ]

[arylleth]

I am fragile and unholy. Open. Ravage. Eat.

[bbadrituall]

i am sick with longing

for something i cannot name,

lost somewhere dark and wet

inside myself, where i can

recognize everything and

nothing is familiar.

i am clawing and screaming

to be let out, but

louder than my nausea

is the silence of cries for help

left unanswered.

[oyster-valley]

on love and flesh

jen mazza, peripety // rune lazuli // na // bones and all // helene cixous, the love of the wolf // tanaka mhishi, literary sexts II // the amazing devil, that unwanted animal // jen mazza, peripety

[thoughtkick]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts

[perfectfeelings]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts

[derangedrhythms]

Show me the parts of you that nobody else ever wanted to sleep with. Show me it all with the lights on. 

Nishat Ahmed, from ‘Literary Sexts’

[quotefeeling]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts

[artfultemptress-69]

Unless we’re fucking don’t call me. Especially if you can text it. The “hey can I call you?” Texts go a long long way.

If we are fucking and you ask to call expect to be cumming in my mouth in the near future. Cuz being considerate of my time and anxiety problems is incredibly hot.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[brokestrapmountain]

Love me and eat me. Possession, Andrzej Żuławski // Tanaka Mhishi, Literary Sexts // Hélène Cixous, Stigmata // Jennifer’s Body, Karyn Kusama // Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz // Killer, Phoebe Bridgers // Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino // Famous Last Words (An Ode To Eaters), Ethel Cain // Hannibal, Bryan Fuller

[resqectable]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts

[bbadrituall]

notes on attachment

i thought i loved you

for one short moment

before you told me

you’ve mastered the art

of feeling nothing

what a horrible way to live

to hold emptiness instead of ache

to feed air instead of fire

to breathe without burning

to save your lungs

for six feet of dirt

i thought i could love you

but all that spark was just

the magic i am made of

and a heavy sigh

from your careless mouth

[thehopefulquotes]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts

[perfectquote]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi, Literary Sexts