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We Know The Devil (2015) / The Children's Hour (1961) / Triple Dog Dare (2021)

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August of Another Summer and I'm Unfortunately Still Me

"Live or Die", Anne Sexton// "River's Mouth", @julykings// August Painting, Vasko Taškovski// "High Bridge Park", Carlie Hoffman// "The Women", Kim Addonizio// "The Terrible", Charlotte Eriksson// "Felicity", Mary Oliver// August, Ivan Kolisnyk// "On the Death of Summer and Baptismal Promises", @peoplehood// Alida Nugent//

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I wanted to be great. And if I couldn’t be great, I didn’t want to be alive.

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Excerpts from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde.

Quote by Oscar Wilde.

Art - Tomb of a Suicide Victim by Wilhelm Kotarbiński.

Quote by Oscar Wilde.

Art - Lucifer by Alexandre Cabanel.

Quote by Oscar Wilde.

Art - Pietà by Oleg Supereco.

Quote by William Wordsworth.

Art- The Lament for Icarus by Herbert Draper.

Quote by Goethe.

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All time ever does is pass All i ever do is remember

{QuotesJohn Steinbeck/jenny slate/Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952)/Anna ahkmotava/Warsan Shire, from “Home”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head/ patrick gale/ me / sue zhoe// paintings: uk/ yasuda takuya/ holly Warburton}

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tenderness and destruction

[aka a wen kexing starter kit part 2 (part 1)]

Hieu Minh Nguyen // Raymond Carver, from Late Fragment // @Mothcub // Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry // Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Hozier, Sunlight // Hanif Abdurraqib, from “Board Up the Doors, Tear Down the Walls,” in A Little Devil in America

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betrayal.

the hunger games / how to get away with murder / hruiz016 on pinterest / veeentum on pinterest / carrie / traitor - olivia rodrigo / firstfullmoon on tumblr / malcolm x / twilightdaydreamer on pinterest / agatha all along / harknessapphic on pinterest

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Forgive me, I am soft and warm, but cruel and a coward, I know nothing but goodbye, goodbye

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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musings on June

1. anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville

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Franz Kafka, 1912

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part one, a mini comic documenting subconscious grief

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musings on april

Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)

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you're allowed to be held.