October 2011
24 posts
Prejudiced assumptions
Today I was reading Hamlet at the public library. I was minding my own business, trudging through Act I, when I was abruptly addressed by this 26-year-old black male.
“Hey beautiful. Are ya studyin’?” “Uh, hello, yes I am”, I replied. “That’s what’s up! Shakespeare…. ooof”, he piped, “I love him! ‘I think/therefore I am/I...
My Ode To Halloween
Tonight, I am wading through corn syrup. Golden gummy-sap crystallizes over my teeth. A sucrose shell builds, shifts, cracks. Milkteeth to incisors to gruesome gaps, remind me of seventeen Halloweens passed.
FACT: You know a lesbian is single when her nails...
“so i took too many sleeping pills and nothing happened. so i put a gun to my...”
– (via sarahmrow)
There's too much blood
in my caffeine system.
“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”
– Dostoevsky (via modellesbians)
“Sleepmonger,
deathmonger,
with capsules in my palms each night,
eight at a...”
– “The Addict” -Anne Sexton
