It’s annoying but the way you improve yourself is one tiny thing at a time
older I get the less interest I have in explaining myself to people who aren’t even important to me. if you want to misunderstand me or create a narrative in your head about me that’s really not my problem… I know who I am
i think it’s an interesting setting for bruce springsteen songs but at the end of the day i’m glad america isn’t a real place
if the pain you caused me was something straight-forward and physical like a knife to my heart, how would i react?
in one universe i would look you dead in the eye as you twist and turn the knife inside of me instead of begging you to stop.
in another universe i would leave the knife in me until scar-tissue grows over it and it becomes part of me.
in the last universe i pull the knife out from where you put it in between my ribs and stab you with it as i bleed to death. then lick the blade and let the iron of us both be my last meal.
Herman Bogman Jr., 1890-1975
Cat lying on green chair , ca.1950/65, watercolor, 47x32 cm
“Youth in Revolt” (2009)
oh I see. it was the crime of wanting. that's why I deserve it.