JUST LOOK AT MY BABY GURL MY POOKIE MY DARLING THE LOVE OF MY LIFE MY HUBBY AND COOCHIECOO MY CUPCAKE

You are not what happened to you. You didn't deserve to go through all that. You deserved to be loved, to feel safe, to be safe. You deserved kindness. Patience. You deserved better.

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

— Agnes Repplier

fuck literary gatekeeping, read whatever you want.

RED Taylor’s Version | November 11, 2021

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The eldest daughter urge to "move away from home and cut off her family"

(softly but with a lot of feeling) what the fuck

{Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography," published in The Los Angeles Review/ Anne Sexton/ Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls - Raised by Wolves/ Abraham Verghese/ Naguib Mahfouz/ Clementine von Radics, Poem: Courtney Love Prays to Oregon/ Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project/ Fatimah Asghar, from "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" published in The New York Times Magazine/ John Murillo, Poem: Mercy, Mercy, Me}

I can’t stop thinking about when he threw the car keys and got agressive on the phone and suddenly she was unsure and looked so much younger and ‘anytime now he’s gonna say it’s love’ but then he turns around and there’s an edge to his expression that she’s never seen before