Cameron Awkward-Rich, From "Anti-Elegy"

“I should call you ghost before I call you father. Ain’t a ghost someone that came before you that keeps haunting you even when you never see them?”

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Ephraim Nehemiah, “Jesus Christ Tries Asking His Father Questions Again”

Performing at Rustbelt 2018 in Detroit, MI. HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.

Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

(Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“Some things are holy enough that they deserve to only be done well. Love, cello, forgiveness.”

— Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

“The difference between a dream and wakefulness: we know it’s real if it hurts.”

— Emily Eastman - “The First Time” 

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape (via the-book-diaries)

To do? I don’t want to do anything. I want to be everything.

Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (via the-book-diaries)

RIGHT so when I started my sociology course in college, my teacher stated us off with 

‘well I guess we have to do icebreakers. i’m Jon, and I fear bears. why do I fear bears? because bears can run at 30 miles per hour and Chester Zoo is 30 miles away. that means a bear can be outside this door in an hour. why would a bear be here? because they can smell fear and I fear them.’

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace

Suck on it like a good boy.