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Tony Hoagland, from Application for Release from the Dream; “The Complex Sentence”

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Georges Rodenbach, from "aquarium mental V" written c. june 1882

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Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.

Sarah Manguso, from 'Ongoingness: The End of a Diary'

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i'm sorry

i wasn't

the daughter

you had

in mind.

— 𝑖 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑

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𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔

i don't know if anyone has ever told you this, but: their lack of love for you does not make you any less loveable.

break your glass slippers by amanda lovelance

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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

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Victoria Chang, from Barbie Chang; “Dear P.”

[Text ID: “if I press hard enough on my eyeballs / I see / geometric shapes and stars my love / for you / is something like this it is there like / the stars but nothing I can grab or free”]

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Mary Oliver, from felicity; "the pond"