is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken
“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection
& there’s nothing more holy than holding a man’s heartbeat between your teeth
— Ocean Vuong, from “Devotion,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds
what happened w the grocery store posting U guys used to love romanticizing the grocery store
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN INFINITE NUMBER OF TIMES WORSE THAN IF THEY KNOCKED DOWN THE FUCKING STATUE OF LIBERTY TO MAKE SPACE FOR A NEW LANE IN A HIGHWAY. IF THEY TOOK THE NOTRE DAME APART.
Victorian government cut down a centuries old sacred tree today, hoping to use the announcement of easing lockdown as a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact they’re actively working to destroy living Aboriginal history so commuters can cut 3 minutes off their travel times
To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter.
literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.
bro.. dont take care of me bro... it’s rotten work bro..