you’re so polite with your sadness. you don’t want to ruin this for anyone.
— Silas Melvin, from “Twenty,” Grit
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Chronic.
on illness and fatigue
A Poem About Pain, David Budbill | She Used to Be Mine, Waitress | Under One Small Star, Wislawa Szymborska | Burried, Ashe Vernon | Vive, Vive, Traci Brimhall | Chronic Pain, NHS Inform | Drawing Restraints, Agnes Cecile | Half-Life in Exile, Hala Alyan | Body Terror Song, AJJ | Unknown | Battlefield, Topaz Winters | White Oleander, Janet Fitch | Boy In The Bubble, Alec Benjamin | Quote by Richard Siken | Autoimmune Disease, Anna and Elena Balbusso | In The Pines, Alice Notley | Twenty, Silas Melvin
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i got dreams, but i can’t make myself believe them.
homesick, noah kahan / vienna, billy joel / runaway, half•alive / if i could be, paolo barretta / untitled, claude monet / the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath / disaster cat, danielpup / the diaries of franz kafka, franz kafka / eighteen, silas melvin / palo alto, dir. gia coppola.
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no one in town speaks your feral / tongue.
silas melvin
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“Trapped”
Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
@/lilboyblueish on Instagram
Poem by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)
I/Me/Myself - Will Wood
We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan
cis people asking cis questions by Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet)
Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote
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redesign for lesbian visibility week 🩷🧸🫶
click for quality (my shop) (instagram) (tip me) (shirts)
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You're so polite with your sadness. You don't want to ruin this for anyone.
Silas Melvin
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you / wish you had the nerve to kiss / strangers or believe in love.
— Silas Melvin, from “Neurosis,” Grit
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that summer, Silas Denver Melvin
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Grit: A Poetry Collection, Silas Denver Melvin
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Aren't You Glad To Be A Pansy?
(inspired by @sweatermuppet's poetry and stickers, and my own very complicated relationship with gender and cowboys)
buy silas denver melvin's stickers! (i have... almost all of them, and they're great quality and let all the other transsexuals at the function know that i'm a cool queer poetry loser)
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