December 2008
24 posts
I looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest, said, ‘Do your best to...
– ray lamontagne (via scout)
a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon, e.e....
scout:
god’s terrible face, brighter than a spoon, collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred: i am a birdcage without any bird, a collar looking for a dog, a kiss without lips; a prayer lacking any knees but something beats within my shirt to prove he is undead who,living,noone is. I have never loved you dear...
In unlit places without streetlamps or yelping neon, night is profound and...
– Toni Morrison, Love
Nobody remembers why the mask was first devised nor who devised it. Perhaps...
– Angela Carter, The Executioner’s Beautiful Daughter
If I have a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and...
– Desiderius Erasmus (via stewardesses)
shegoesbam:
your room, holds the key, to my body’s desire, while my body, keeps resisting, the hearts, lying fire as i lie awake, the sun brings a new day and i contemplate the risks of, say walking 20 miles in 20 degrees fahrenheit at 5:20 in the a.m. and looking like your whore because all the book smarts in the world won’t prepare me for this war or prevent the tangled sheets that lead to...