George Seferis, From Collected Poems; "Last Stop" (tr. Edmund Keeley And Philip Sherrard)

anyone wanna take me out back and shoot me like an old dog

I'm somewhere between an I'm-going-to-die ecstasy and I'm-never-gonna-die paralysis at each bare moment. This whole thing is such a laugh, you know? Especially once you put your head through the surface and let the water in. Call it autoerotic asphyxiation or call it drowning, either way you have to open your mouth!

bringing a gun to Chekhov’s house by Robert Wood Lynn

“You get to exhale now”

Love, Simon (2018) dir. Greg Berlanti

Florentine Playing Cards. Francesco di Domenico, 1547.

it's always a damn picture of a deer on here

Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.

James Baldwin  This morning, this evening, so soon  

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree

BONES AND ALL (2022) dir. Luca Guadagnino