You see, my grief is like bottomless well,
snarled ivy climbing my bones, making
an abandoned house out of my body.—
Ailey O’Toole, from “Here Are The Secrets I’ve Kept,” published in Rose Quartz
Etikett: :negative
*isnt universally loved* i guess i’ll just Die
“this body is just a bad dream”
— Jess R. Sutton, from my only regret is having a body
“The body will always make more room / for grief.”
— Kate Gaskin, from “Poem with a Possible Unidentified Flying Object,” published in Tin House
just tell me i never really mattered anyway
why am i never anyone’s first choice
im a romantic but the plot twist is that im unlovable
Do you ever get told you’re really attractive and start to think maybe you’re more attractive than you think but then you see a picture of yourself someone else took and you like oooh shit i’m worse than i thought
i cannot believe how fucking ugly i am
Me: Nah, I’m not getting my hopes up.
Narrator: Her hopes, were in fact, up.