Slow Kill, Jordan Charlton

from Simone Weil’s Pre-War Notebook

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

أَلل‍ّٰه‍ُـــــمَّ إني اسألك حسن الخاتمة

O Allah, I ask you for a good ending...

Natalie Díaz, from “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem

I need a Swanson in my life

― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

sure, I may be little more than a dog for the military industrial complex, but every once in a while, they let me place a hand on one of their mass-produced wargrinders and feel the heat radiating off of the plate metal like a stovetop I'm not entirely sure I turned off

in the throes of this ecstatic contact, I can pretend for just a moment to be crawling along the spiritual spiderweb of something bigger, more beautiful, and one day, that beautiful thing might see it fit to sink its teeth into me, too

i carried your voice in my heart and viens

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Winter is for listening to the same music you were listening to at 15. Unfortunately