“Brooklyn's too cold tonight & all my friends are three years away. My mother said that I could be anything I wanted—but I chose to live. On the stoop of an old brownstone a cigarette flares, then fades. I walk to it: a razor sharpened with silence.”
Thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong
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Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'
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THANKSGIVING 2006
Brooklyn's too cold tonight
& all my friends are three years away.
My mother said that I could be anything
I wanted -- but I chose to live.
On the stoop of an old brownstone
a cigarette flares, then fades.
I walk to it: a razor
sharpened with silence.
His jawline etched in smoke.
The mouth where I reenter
this city. Stranger, palpable
echo, here is my hand, filled with blood thin
as a widow's tears. I am ready.
I am ready to be every animal
you leave behind.
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"Thanksgiving 2006," Ocean Vuong
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when ocean vuong wrote “i miss you more than i remember you” and “brooklyn’s too cold tonight & all my friends are three years away” screaming crying throwing up etc.
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thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong
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THE POETS AND THE SINGERS AND THE AUTHORS WRITE ABOUT ROMANTIC LOVE WHEN IT ENDS. BUT NOBODY TELLS YOU HOW TO GET OVER A FRIEND. (x)
oscar wilde / antoine de saint-exupéry, the little prince / the social network (2010), dir. david fincher / @jspark3000 (x) / ocean vuong, thanksgiving 2006 / stephen king, the body / house of the dragon, 1x04 / @s4pphoiduser (x) / the fray, how to save a life / radiohead, life in a glasshouse / succession, 1x08 / @ritikajyala (x) / richard siken, the worm king’s lullaby / hozier (x) / hannibal, 3x04 / fredrik backman, us against you / maggie nelson, bluets
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Ocean Vuong, from ‘Thanksgiving 2006′, Night Sky With Exit Wounds
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I can’t explain the feeling of how I watched you all move on
@theundergroundwoman // Brockhampton, LAMB // Boy Genius, me and my dog // Eileen Myles, Bone // Sue Zhao // Bleachers, Like a River Runs // @adampvrrish // Unknown Source // Ocean Vuong, Thanksgiving 2006 // @artintheasylum // Vi Khi Nao, Fish in Exile // James Patterson, The Angel Experiment // @lemonles // Mitski, Francis Forever // Adult Mom, When You Are Happy // @beetlejuices // Chelsea Fagan, How we let People Go
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summer by @bonerot19
because living weighs heavier - on summer, growth, the terrifying months between high school and college, and unavoidable setbacks
This Is How You Lose Her, Junior Dìaz / We Are Okay, Nina LaCour / Graduation Day Painting, Wade Binford / The Last Day of Summer / @metamorphesque / ? / The Last Day of Summer / Marian Keyes / Pexels, Philippe Donn + Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself, Charlotte Eriksson / Distant Campfire Photograph, James Wheeler / haunted house uquiz, streetlighthalo / Sunflower Forest, Laurel Sherrie + Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh / You’re Doing Just Fine, Charlotte Eriksson / Wear Sunscreen, Luis M. Proenza + Chicago Summer + Pexel / Space, in Chains, Laura Kasischke / Pexel + Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong / pinterest / Memento Mori, Crywank / Another Birth, Forugh Farrokhzad + Summer Landscape #4, Graham Gercken / Czesław Miłosz / One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston / Growing Sideways, Noah Kahan + Hartigan Beach Park + Night Driving, Erika Lee Sears / ? / @diarygirls
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“His jawline etched in smoke. The mouth where I reenter this city. Stranger, palpable echo, here is my hand, filled with blood thin as a widow's tears. I am ready. I am ready to be every animal you leave behind.”
Thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong
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— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'
[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight
& all my friends are three years away.
My mother said I could be anything
I wanted — but I chose to live.]
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Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong
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I hope that it mattered, having someone beside you in the dark
I Am in Eskew, The Boy Who Saw the Cracks in the World / Fleabag, Episode 6 / Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights / Skip Liepke, Illustration for Wuthering Heights / Brendan Monroe, Two / Mikko Harvey, For M / Fall Out Boy, Love From the Other Side / Mitski, Old Friend / Langston Hughes, I Loved My Friend / Mel Gausden, One by One (Our Friends Will Move Away) / Ocean Vuong, Thanksgiving 2006 / Kaye Donachie / Ryan Ross / Louise Miller
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