a shape changer in winter

37, NC, he/them 

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May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again—ALT

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Reed; from ‘The Sentence’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

absolutely devastating blow

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Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (يـومـيـات الـحـزن الـعـادي), 1973

What’s left now / to praise? Everything.

Kevin Young, from “Elegy for Heaney”

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here's hoping people never stop asking

Not to be overly simplistic, but I think in some ways being chronically ill has negated my depression, because I have to fight so hard to live. I started bleeding internally pretty heavily today and all I could think of were all the things that I don’t want to miss out on.

cunt dykeula. is this anything.