They Can’t Even Give A Straight Answer.

I want ai to take my job and kill me

collection of chromogenic prints belonging to an unnamed gay couple in the 1970s (via)

JOAN BAEZ IN FESTIVAL (1967) — dir. Murray Lerner

So this is healing, then, the opposite of the ambiguous dread: fullness.

- What My Bones Know, Stephanie Foo

my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me

Tom Waits reads Bukowski’s poem “The Laughing Heart”.