Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.
I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Error is created; truth is eternal.
High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.