“I have no enemies, but my friends don’t like me.”
— Philip Larkin
Max Ritvo, from Four Reincarnations: Poems; “Living it up”
[Text ID: “I wish you would let me know / how difficult it is to love me. / Then I would know you love me / beneath all that difficulty.”]
Memory does not count distance
Nor days or month's
Time illuminates memory
Memory is pain
So judge me not when I think of you
Memories turn my blood red
Turn it into ink
This ink is What speaks to you now
Bleeding is a slow dance
Slow dance between survival and death
If I told you that the medication for my condition
Is you
What would you do?
Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”
[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself
Trying to convince my shadow that
I am someone worth following.
Rudy Francisco
From frankie bb's chapbook, I'm Hungry, Please Come Home, available from Bottlecap Press!
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
Just A 23 Year Writing To Stay Relevant, discovering the meme-ing of life along the way - Let's Not Talk Anymore 🌻
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