December 2010
45 posts
I Pack Her Suitcase with Sticks, Light the Tinder,...
tornadodreams:
by Rob Schlegel
She used to sit on the forest floor
and I would cut her hair until it piled up
onto the ground, like ash.
Tonight, her name is a leaf covering
my left eye. The right I close
for the wind to stitch shut with thread
from the dress she wore into the grave
where the determined roots of the tree
are making a braid around her body.
binds:
I always trip on my clumsy heart.
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“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
witherwithout:
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.
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The Truth in the Fine Print
I cannot make you love me without making you hate yourself.
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via quote-book)
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The Poison
I am too young to have you as a poison in my veins.
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The 26
I slept with another man last night. I thought in him I might have found a part of myself that I was missing. Instead what I found was that I am missing you.
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The Danger
There is no such thing as a safe place to be. As long as I exist, as long as I am alive—as long as I am alone.
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The Perfect Agony
So much of what I use to have of you was lost in the transition from togetherness to singularity. To stave off the agony I threw out your letters, and I burned the photos of you and I. But one thing I cannot change, I cannot hide from, I cannot burn are the memories of the moments we use to share. And with every memory I’ve kept of you is a quiet pain that remains untainted beyond...
myblisslikethis:
too much wine and too little you. i’ve never been so close to driving west as i am right this moment. i love you. i love you. i love you.
the antlers
I’m trying to dig you out but all you want is to be buried there together You’re screaming And cursing And angry And hurting me And then smiling And crying Apologizing
savagesays:
Some days I feel absolutely alone.
A prisoner in my own life
Absolutely mad
These dirty cell walls close in on me
I lose track of the days
Only wanting out.
Life didn't promise to be wonderful
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There are things I’ll never get the chance to say aloud. And God help me, telling you the ways I love you will not be counted among them.
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At Least That’s What You Said- Wilco
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I just can't care anymore.
“of all the lovers found, and lost, and never seen again; you’re the only...”
– Jason Reeves
“I am but bones but I still love you. Same as now,same as all before.”
– Declan DeBarra
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What I say means nothing, but the music speaks to...
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“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love....”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“This is the closest I’ve come to touching you the way I want”
– Menomena
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There's so much more than what we have.
“Like a mirror I see the reflection. It is a cruel and cold one. The truth while...”
“You desired my attention, but denied my affection.”
Every word's a new regret if you say it right
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“Memory is not all that’s lost to madness. There are other kinds of damage, to...”
– Marya Hornbacher
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“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after...”
– Joseph Heller
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“What do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation
