When We Leave This All Behind Us - Blog Posts

sinisterlinguines

1 year ago

I'm walking out of here in one piece Don't care what comes after Drive the wedge Torch the bridge I don't want to die in here I don't want to die in here // I was so cruel to my body, & still it never once faltered in kicking/screaming/fighting me alive.

I WILL CLAW AND SCRATCH AND SCREAM MY WAY TO A KINDER I BETTER I SOFTER TOMORROW, IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES. I WON'T LET IT END LIKE THIS.

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me // But I'll live my life if it kills me // Tumblr user @girlroach: Gripping my bathroom sink repeating I am not afraid to keep on living I am not afraid to walk this world alone

Everyone is gonna make it out, make it out alive // Throw yourself into the unknown With pace and a fury defiant Clothe yourself in beauty untold And see life as a means to a triumph

You think I'd crumble? You think I'd lay down and die? Oh no, not I, I will survive // "it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world." // do not go gentle into that good night... rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We are all going forward. None of us are going back. 1 WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE ¡ WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE I WILL CONTINUE here is the unbuckling of knees, the unwriting of eulogies. here is rebirth; embryonic plasma and placenta like a bitter thing. here is the unbowing from tombs. welcome to the final act. this is the part where i play the miracle- the thing raking itself from the soil. i'm alive and doing oh so much more than just kicking.

You need not die today. Stay here--through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. grit your teeth; spit the blood. take the next step.

daisies-on-a-cup Follow Dec 28, 2022 THEY DID IT THEY ESCAPED THE NARRATIVE! THERE IS A WAY OUT!! THE STORY CAN BE ALTERED!!! YOU ARE NOT STUCK- THERE IS AN ESCAPE!!! THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL BUT YOU HAVE TO WALK TOWARDS IT!!!! Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make Climb limits past the limits Jump in front of trains all day And stay alive Just stay alive

The Mountain Goats, “Heel Turn 2” // Topaz Winters, “battlefield” // Lilith Kerr (me) // The Mountain Goats, “This Year” // e.e. cummings // Tumblr user @girlroach // Angus & Julia Stone, “Make it Out Alive” // Gang of Youths, “Achilles Come Down” // Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” // Mary Oliver // Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” // Richard Siken, “Snow and Dirty Rain” // Lilith Kerr (me) // Lilith Kerr (me), “rebirth” from unloving the knife (2023) // Gwendolyn Brooks, “To the Young Who Want to Die” // Lilith Kerr (me again; sorry, I was running out of material lmao) // Tumblr user @daisies-on-a-cup // The Mountain Goats, “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”