“I Buried The Girl I Had Been Because She Ran Into All Kinds Of Trouble. I Tried To Erase Every Memory

tenderness and destruction

[aka a wen kexing starter kit part 2 (part 1)]

Hieu Minh Nguyen // Raymond Carver, from Late Fragment // @Mothcub // Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry // Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Hozier, Sunlight // Hanif Abdurraqib, from “Board Up the Doors, Tear Down the Walls,” in A Little Devil in America

Jon Ware, I Am In Eskew

’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (quoted from ‘Hamlet’)

i've gotten good at living on someone else's page

~ Metaphor - The Crane Wives

“I am deathly afraid of almosts. Of coming so very close to where I want to be in life that I can almost taste it, almost touch it, then falling just a little short.”

— Beau Taplin, Just Short (via wordsnquotes)

“i was a darkness in his bed sunless & shining like oil”

— – Safia Elhillo  (via pairedaeza)

Joy Harjo, from “Nandia”, She Had Some Horses

— The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustín Gómez-Arcos, tr. William Rodarmor

Maya Phillips, Sometimes my father is a roaming hunger

Andalusia - Lisa Marie Basile / Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn / Runs in the Family - Amanda Palmer / unknown / Hate To Feel - Alice In Chains / The Lion In Winter - James Goldman / Letter To My Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch / Rupi Kaur / The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera / Amanda Palmer / Easier Than Lying - Halsey / Playing God - Paramore / Nancy Lee / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong / Enough - Suzanne Buffam / Antigone (Sophocles / trans. Anne Carson) / Untitled, Jasmin R. / When Doves Cry - Prince / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / Courtney Love prays to Oregon - Clementine Von Radics / unknown