lost time is why my hair ends up in knots/ not for lack of sleep though insomnia is in my hair, too/ and because ghosts swim in my rotten heart and it’s a rotten brain, too/ with shallow thoughts about boys that are 6’1 or 6’2 maybe/ and they kiss me in the dark when […]
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It’s a colorful darkness. Pitch black with lights flashing everywhere and fireworks. But exploding with words — some that I want to hear and some that I don’t. They’re screaming so loudly my ears ring, but I can still detect the whispers in the background, smug with their ability to trap me. Playing out conversations […]
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Smartphones have become our lifelines. They are our source of personal conversation, social media, email, picture taking, TV watching, game playing, fitness tracking — the list just goes on and on. Unfortunately, these little handheld devices aren’t as nice to us when it comes to our sleep. Doctors are finding that using our phones (and even […]
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things are getting tired now but the clock ticks on as the paint slides down the walls. i dream of ophelia’s mouth filling with water while the moon is singing on her face, all silver lines and unsaid words. i dream of cassandra, wishing for the stifling smoke of troy burning instead of the bite […]
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Yeah I’ve got a backbone that can’t decide between being its namesake and being a wishbone. My whole life I’ve been pulling the shorter end, bringing home more men than my mother has ever known in her entire life, up the stairs and into my bed until she finally falls asleep. Yeah the bottle is […]
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