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you can't fathom why i'd gobble your kisses but duck your attention. please, understand — some of us have gone so long hungry, the idea of being full feels worse than the affliction.

what is grief if not love persevering.

nothing ever ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was just red.

mother she is called. mother she is not.

i'll do the startling thing; i'll have the knife in my teeth, i'll be the star — you can be the horrified one.

the next morning after she had gone, he lay there, wondering how much of himself was gone, too.

if there is a light then i am going to swallow it. if there is a god then i'm going to make him cry.

and you're whispering, you're begging, save me save me save me, into skin that isn't your's; as if there had ever been enough of anything in you left to save.

against my body, your body lay like a warm star.

'do you hate my body, mom?' she says. her voice splinters in pain, as if she were about to cry. 'you hated yours, clearly, but mine looks just like yours used to, so—'

and the starlight i see is a million light years old, a ghost just like the rest of us / nothing i see is here anymore.

an autumn whisper between the maples kept urging: die with me.

what did my fingers do before they held him ? what did my heart do, with its love ?

i promise that i shall never give up, and that i'll die yelling and laughing.

i've never been homesick. because there's no place i belong.

there is something bad here, growing. day and night i watch it. growing. my mother is where it begins. she and i are at war. our relation is hatred.

to hell with them. nothing hurts if you don't let it.

it is easier to tell the story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

this heavy humanness.

in a dream, i saw my mother with the love of her life and no children / it was the happiest i'd ever seen her.