why do i find guys with long hair so hot.. i swear it will be the death of me
Etikett: about astrid
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
—Come and help me. I am disappearing.
Gunnar Ekelöf, tr. by Robert Bly, from “Monologue With His Wife,”
[AGGRESSIVELY WISHES TO BE A 1970’S SEX SYMBOL]
I wandered in a lonely place; my soul’s great thirst tormented me –
Alexander Pushkin, tr. by Anthony Wood, from “The Prophet,”
I am undergoing changes of heart and soul, so I’m trying to find new ways of writing that suit the changed organs.
Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Rust Hills written c. September 1965
I’m a double of myself, one half a doll that was spared, one half dead.
Mary Jo Bang, from A Doll for Throwing: Poems; “Of Mannequins and Building Exteriors,”
“My soul is not that virgin. It has known despair, and that is the same as having been touched by death.”
— Olga Freidenberg, from a letter to Boris Pasternak c. December 1924
valerie and her week of wonders (1970)
help, my wife got wine drunk and tried to set our marriage certificate on fire, saying “good luck trying to return me without the receipt”
beberequin 