Blythe Baird // Dave Eggers
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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”
[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]
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// Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak; "What I couldn't explain via text"
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I’ll admit: I blamed her
for teaching me how
to be cruel to my body
because she let me
watch her set fire
to her own.
— Blythe Baird, from "What a Body Inherits," Sweet, Young, & Worried
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“Irritated, he demands you explain to him
‘WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF EVERYTHING?’
and suddenly it strikes you
what a privilege it must be to be annoyed instead of afraid.”
-Blythe Baird
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to live, even when it feels unbearable. | Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945) / The White Book (Le Livre Blanc) by Jean Cocteau, 1930 / Mieko Kawakami, Heaven / Insomnia, Mark Andres, acrylic on canvas, 2021 / Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry; “Maybe it would be fun” / Aleksandra Waliszewska / El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) / Deer On the Side of the American Highway by Devin Kelly / neil hilborn, numbered days / Sun on the horizon (Naomi Kawase, 1996) / Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”
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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”
[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]
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I still don’t
know how
to write about
the things that
didn’t
hurt.
— Blythe Baird, from "The Nights I Felt Iridescent," Sweet, Young, & Worried
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