the sadness will last forever.
richard siken, boot theory / little women (2019), dir. greta gerwig / lily king, writers & lovers / kate baer, and yet: poems / gracie abrams, block me out / tim kavanagh (x) / anne boyer, what resembles the grave but isn’t / molly brodak, a little middle of the night / phoebe bridgers, funeral / 9-1-1, 5x13 / ingmar bergman / james baldwin, giovanni’s room / the national, sorrow / house, 5x24 / fortesa latifi
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”
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i think my body is falling in pieces i think my blood is passing me by
Micah Nemerever These Violent Delights / I.B. Vyache Excerpt 07.01.21 / Silas Denver Melvin excerpt from Grit: A Poetry Collection / Christa Wolf excerpt from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays / Ethel Cain Family Tree (Intro) / unknown / Fiona Apple Left Alone / Richard Siken The Worm King's Lullaby / Gwen Benaway Holy Wild
i. Micah Nemerever, These Violent Nights
[ "I don't think you've ever felt anything that didn't hurt you. / We've found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?" ]
ii. I.B. Vyache, Excerpt 07.01.21
[ "It's time to forgive my hands for being hands. I'm going to hate myself a little less tomorrow. I'm going to hate myself a little less tomorrow." ]
iii. unknown
[ "have you shot a gun? is your blood authentic? is your blood authentic? is your blood authentic? can you prove it to me?" ]
iv. Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
[ "You looked at me / (did you still see me?)" ]
v. Ethel Cain, Family Tree (Intro)
[ "The fate's already fucked me sideways / Swinging by my neck from the family tree / He'll laugh and say, 'You know I raised you better than this' / Then leave me hanging so they all can laugh at me" ]
vi. unknown
[ "I fight. I resist. It doesn't even matter what I resist; there is simply something in me that tends to resist things as they are. I have been fighting since I was very small." ]
vii. Fiona Apple, Left Alone
[ "[Chorus] / How can I ask anyone to love me / When all I do is beg to be left alone?" ]
viii. Richard Siken, The Worm King's Lullaby
[ "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story." ]
ix. Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
[ "I am tired of explaining the fire, / it burns because it must." ]
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can you please do one on feeling empty and numb
may sarton journal of a solitude \\ edward emerson barnard astronomy comet (1908)
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Bejeweled // Bigger Than The Whole Sky // Hits Different
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The joy you lived through might have been temporary, but so is this sadness. Perspective is everything and nothing lasts forever. That happy moment might be gone, but it doesn't mean the sadness will last forever and that no more joy will ever come your way. Pain is there to be felt so we can react to it, so please remember to sit with your feelings but not to dwell on it so much you forget to do something to relief that pain a little, to change things around. We have a tendency to get absorbed in pain and to believe that it is all we will ever feel, but it isn't. We can feel so much more, we can live through so much more, and even though it is sad that life is fleeting, it also means that this suffering won't last forever, it won't be all that you have. We all have ups and downs, please don't let the frustration of being in pain make you believe it is all you have and all you will ever feel. Keep going. You will find joy again. 🌱
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cycling through, on emergence and recovery
jjk 251, gege akutami || the fall of the house of usher, steven beroff || monsterism, jenna anderson || robinson crusoe, daniel defoe || "toe dip”, giordanne salley || ask polly: help, heather havrilesky || too much love, katja kemnitz || joseph campbell and the power of myth, joseph campbell || photo of boygenius, rolling stone || @/classicnymph (twitter) || "the sun", edvard munch || tiktok comments, @/ashmanathletics
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Georges Rodenbach, from "The Chamber, Sad and Weary," wr. c. July 1882
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@dobaara empty \\ paul caponigro (detail) (via @mybeingthere) \\ in the mood for love dir. wong kar-wai \\ federico garcía lorca
kofi
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