i love you for free.

James Wright

— Yves Olade, “Self Portrait as a Hairpin Turn”

jenny slate - little weirds

i started listening to carly rae jespen because of this essay (i’ll put it below) and i think about it all the time. like. this guy says it better than i ever could.

how i became impossible by Mary Ruefle

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

Mikko Harvey

i literally can’t stop thinking abt that richard siken quote where he falls to the floor crying but all he can focus on is the details of the wall in front of him

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realise you didn’t paint it very well.”

march by Mary Oliver

Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language.