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Be warned I am actually uninteresting and better as an idea

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Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

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Nina Maclaughlin, from "Wake, Siren," originally published in November 2019

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Craig Morgan Teicher, from To Keep Love Blurry; “Grief: A Celebration”

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“everyone interprets characters differently” unfortunately so true! thankfully I was blessed with an intense preternatural insight into their core beings (watched and paid attention) and I don’t have to worry

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get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

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black cherries by W.S. Merwin

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Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

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somewhere, there's a party

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There is supposed to be a place where no one can reach you. Traditionally, the home, but now we settle for the ocean, the airplane, the summit of a mountain, the middle of a lake, the shower, the womb, the grave

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ko shibasaki in battle royale (2000) dir. by kinji fukasaku

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Nooshin Ghanbari, from "transient"

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Topaz Winters, from "Cherry Blossoms"

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tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)