“grab your sweet smile and carry it to my mouth.”— Alda Merini (1931-2009), from “Elegy”
in “Love Lessons. Selected Poems of Alda Merini”. translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart
forpracticalpurposesidontexist:
“If you must die,I’ll envy even the earth that wraps your body”
-Albert camus, state of siege
Let’s run through the medow and never look back
You are worse than any virus
Because if you were a true parasite you would have killed me by now
but instead to sneak into every aspect of my life
I see you every single second of every day
pure torture
but you won’t do the deed
you leave me wanting to die yet force the chore of living
-EK
I just want to feel okay
Lake Michigan with my babies
