YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II In Candyman (2021)

you’re in his dms, i’m the mongoose he wants under the house when the snakes slither by. we are not the same

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

she was the lighthouse that guided you home, the siren that beckoned you to her embrace, the light of the moon / and you the changing tides, the ship that came to her shore, the willing sailor who went overboard

who’s your favorite poet? edgar allen poe? yikes. why isn’t it someone actually important like flo milli

Garden of Earthly Delights (details) by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.

when virginia woolf said “as a woman I have no country”

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Miles Johnston

I cannot unclench my fist from the shape of a bullet.

—Olivia Hu, “Mistaking Ground for Feet”