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A Year Ago, Tomorrow
“De Temps En Temps,” by Josephine Baker. That’s what I was listening to. Funny now to think I'd ever forget how it felt, something like that.
Alone and facing my death in a stranger’s beach house, next to a dark, cold, ocean in the dead of Winter.
I ate Dove chocolates and soaked in a warm bath with bubbles to the brim, and listened to “De Temps en Temps,” while lifting a razor to...
Tuesday 6th April 2021 4:39 am
The Violence Now of Miss Anthropocene
The sound of “Violence”
I can feel it
Heavy-
Weight in
My stomach
Standing on
The ledge, again
Don’t move
Don’t slip
The poison running through
My veins, I feel it
Hurting me, helping me
Smells of
Pink plastic wig
Pretty pink perfume
Pretty
Make me pretty
Don’t let me
Lose me
Pray to God I don’t
Lose th...
Monday 1st March 2021 3:38 am
Lucky Girl
i am a lucky girl.
just recently i read that
on average
people take around 24,000 breaths
everyday
in between words
and laughs
and running late to their jobs.
today i watched an old
PJ Harvey concert on tv
she was singing and
screaming and
breathing
all over the place-
it was great
i bet i took a thousand breaths
just sitting there watchi...
Tuesday 26th January 2021 3:36 am
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