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"We ate the birds." -- Margaret Atwood ( Read more... ) -
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I wake up at eleven and sleepy mouth smile and dance around to Avril Lavigne. I brush my teeth and examine my skin for blemishes and pucker my lips to apply lipstick (Souffle de Rose by Dior) and lipgloss. I am scared that I am turning into one of those girls that I hate. Everything I wear is from either American Eagle or Victoria's Secret. I work ( Read more... ) -
(Coming Clean Words - I lied, To be in Tijuana - Ser) or, 98 across
"The problem with skin
is not how it keeps all of you in,
a miracle quite, a thing. But how
it remembers and remembers even if
the grey pocket in your brain says forget."
I am learning that being alone is not a status, but a condition, and I am not sure what I am trying to say. I am trying to say that things will be okay, that I do not need friends, ( Read more... ) -
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I am listening to Beck croon on my iPod and working on a project for Chinese class. I am wearing my dress from American Apparel and I am thinking about how I bought this dress last May with such high hopes for my future in becoming a fashionista and fifteen ways to wear a dress (I am wearing way #12, with my grey turtleneck). I do not understand ( Read more... ) -
"The Great and Ruinous Lovers" (or, things I have been feeling like)
"From now on, love,we will always be about to destroy each other, always about to touch."
- Orpheus and Eurydice
- Tristan and Isolde
- Romeo and Juliet
- Heathcliff and Catherine
- Lancelot and Guinevere
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In an instant, these perfect red mounds (or, things I have been thinking about)
"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
1. how anthills appear overnight
2. the skin behind knees
3. New York, New York
4. if I were Richard Siken, I would not have cancelled my poetry reading
