“The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater because he is trying to kill you, and you deserve it, you do, and you know this, and you are ready to die in this swimming pool because you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means your life is over anyway. You’re in eighth grade. You know these things. You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do long division, and you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do, because you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore.”
― Crush
― Crush
“FEMALE VOICE: 'The truth is people are pushed around by two men who move all the bodies on earth into patterns that please them.'
MALE VOICE: 'I love my mind when it is fucking the cracks of events.'
MALE VOICE: 'What I give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic.'
FEMALE VOICE: 'Everyday, I do nothing important because I am scared blank and lazy. But then the men come. I put my mouth on them. I spit and write with the wet.'
MALE VOICE: 'I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split.”
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MALE VOICE: 'I love my mind when it is fucking the cracks of events.'
MALE VOICE: 'What I give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic.'
FEMALE VOICE: 'Everyday, I do nothing important because I am scared blank and lazy. But then the men come. I put my mouth on them. I spit and write with the wet.'
MALE VOICE: 'I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split.”
―
“My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.”
― Strong Opinions
― Strong Opinions
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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