simena:

LUIGI BECHI

that-house:

it’s 4:14 which means it’s about to be 9 pm if i’m not careful

lifeinpoetry:

Tired

What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?
What if I am tired of myself? What if I am tired of myself?

— Diamond Sharp, from Super Sad Black Girl

lifeinpoetry:

I wanted to be something
else. Myself, but better. Wild,
and not-yet, a burn, maybe
as it is occurring.

— Cynthia Cruz, from “Fragment,” Hotel Oblivion

lifeinpoetry:

you wake up the same dysphoric body you always are
& kiss your wrists sweetly because no one else
is here to do it & you ask god for her blessing,
please, one day, here, to be loved & loving
& unbodied & she is quiet like she always is

— Silas Melvin, from “A Valentine’s Day Spent Home, Alone,” Grit

lifeinpoetry:

              It turns out however that I was deeply
Mistaken about the end of the world
              The body in flames will not be the body
In flames but just a house fire ignored

— Roger Reeves, from “Children Listen,” Best Barbarian

lifeinpoetry:

“This isolation. It devours.”

— — Sueyeun Juliette Lee, from “One Sky, One Sea,” Aerial Concave Without Cloud

lifeinpoetry:

I
check my phone for notifications, but everything

is quiet as an empty bathtub. I check the sky for a sky and find
no sign,

                           feel only the skyness one feels during
twilight. God knows I am a cavern that refuses to be filled.

— Marianne Chan, from “The Lives of Saints,” All Heathens

lifeinpoetry:

“Look yourself in the eye. / Is that a ghost staring right back? / But how, when only your own flesh and blood / could look at you like that?”

— — Darrel Alejandro Holnes, from “Mirror Woman,” Stepmotherland