February 2012
30 posts
“You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why...”
– Clive Barker (via sleepingtigers)
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“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via awritersruminations)
Unrequited Love Poem
sleepingtigers:
You will be out with friends when the news of her existence will be accidentally spilled all over your bar stool. Respond calmly as if it was only a change in weather, a punch line you saw coming. After your fourth shot of cheap liquor, leave the image of him kissing another woman in the toilet. In the morning, her name will be in every headline: car crash, robbery, flood. When...
1 tag
“Dawn cracks: a lightning bolt
carving slowly through the clouds.
All night I...”
– Departure, Ocean Vuong
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clavicola:
It’s the same feeling as going to the drugstore and watching a boy in a university sweatshirt buy a box of heart-shaped chocolates and a 30 of coors light.
Scoffing, you stare at the caramels you’re holding in line and think of the casual dates you’ll go on tomorrow, think of the boys you’ll hold hands with and the ones who you know you won’t.
You put on the heels that make you look...
“dear samantha
i’m sorry
we have to get a divorce
i know that seems like an...”
– Jared Singer, An Entomologist’s Last Love Letter (via grammatolatry)
“Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware...”
– Stephen Dunn, Connubial (via grammatolatry)
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via cavum)
“Sometimes people are so beautiful that it just takes my breath away,
and I...”
– Shinji Moon (via clavicola)
