sometimes a cute flowy skirt and a matching top can really bring so much joy

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unless you're off your anti-depressants. in which case, you're now crying into your morning coffee in a cute outfit

growing up in a large household with very little privacy means perfecting the art of the 60 second crash out

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In which you cry, scream, throw up in the bathroom for a minute and then move on like nothing happened

this notion was, in fact, correct. and now that i'm reading more, i feel more human.. which is as much as anyone can amount to

the birds that live in our roof are screaming at each other in at least 5 different languages.. and also probably throwing things

i'm a big believer that you should read opinions that differ from your own, simply because it allows you to interrogate your ideas and reinforce/rethink them.. but i was not prepared to be so thoroughly ragebaited

open.substack.com/pub/sublimei...

"You are a person, and people are creatures that rot if they are alone. To be human is to be an animal that needs witnesses. Someone has to see you eating cereal. Someone has to be there when you tell a bad joke. Otherwise you start twitching in public..."
open.substack.com/pub/theshado...

approaching my 30s and suddenly getting into birdwatching 🐦

Singing feels so embarrassing bc it’s just like pushing a bunch of air out of my body for attention like ok please chill

🌃 summer nights are for dissociating and evaporating into the ether 🌃

feeling all kinds of sentimental

ily (i love yoongi)

this strange notion that i won't amount to much because i don't read enough

i will be your friend in quiet ways. in reading the books you recommend and researching your hobbies and giving you a boat on the murky lake of my thoughts so you don't get lost in them. if i've ever considered you a friend, you will always be

Depressed me: “I must write vividly about the darkness that inhabits my soul so I may revisit it with clear eyes should the cloud of dread someday dissipate.”

Me finding the writing 3 months later: “Woah, spooky.”

From Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social)'s book, Alive at the End of the World: bookshop.org/a/862/978156...

#poem #poetry #poems #authors #writers #saeedjones #books #booklovers

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