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if i had children, they would be artists
not bankers, nor politicians, nothing wasteful
and if they were writers, they would not write for money
they would write for truth
i know you can't dictate to your children
only install in them values
i think art is an underated value
undermined
not bankers, nor politicians, nothing wasteful
and if they were writers, they would not write for money
they would write for truth
i know you can't dictate to your children
only install in them values
i think art is an underated value
undermined
Literature
in cycles, in waves
Type, loathe, delete; lather, rinse, repeat.
Literature
blackbird
.
i.
i like to count your ribs when you're not looking.
the hollow dips, the gentle pressure they put on your skin.
you're underweight by a few ticks of the scale,
but,
so am i.
ii.
we both hate taking our medicine.
so my hands shake and your lungs ache,
but we just laugh it off because we're young and we have forever.
right?
iii.
you like different books.
that's okay.
iv.
we rip the pages out of our memoirs and cry on your bedspre
Literature
public autopsies
i.
lovely, isn't it?
i sing you a lullaby, and you—
you fall asleep.
darkness says: it might forget me. darkness says it might forget me.
i was told that to good girls come no grief.
ii.
& here i am,
here we are.
no more skeletons in my closet—
i lie with them at night
i party with the ghosts of my past
i do the dance with my sins of late, swinging the swing till midnight:
i wait for sadness to come back i push happiness away i wait for sadness to come back i push happiness away i wait for sadness to come back i push happiness away i wait for sadness to come back i push happiness away i wait for sadness to come back i push h
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So, true !