when your card declines at therapy so they hit you with "someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story."
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"contemporary texts aren't ever as meaningful/artistic/etc as classics." WRONG!
Here are a few prime examples of beautiful modern writing:
"All I can do is stand on the curb and say 'Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.'" - Richard Siken, Crush
“They both know the looping shape of pain—it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.” - Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
"Cold came over me, but I was warm inside with guilt. The feeling nuzzled against me. It pressed against my heart like a soft animal and slept in my life." - Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie
"Surviving's ugly work, and here I am, so hideously alive." - Trista Mateer, Girl, Isolated
“I've taken what they've given me and turned it into a mockery of them. I will turn it into what destroys them. If they want me to be a monster one step closer to God, that's fine. In what world was their God ever a benevolent one?” - Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
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“I want to tell you this story without being in it:”
The Torn-Up Road // Richard Siken’s Crush
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u gotta be a special kind of gay fuckup to relate to richard siken's poetry. "Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you." yea he wrote this for all of you mfs who have mastered the art of yearning and who know what it's like to have devotion go hand in hand with love and who have always taken the night shift in the aftermath of it all. go to therapy pls
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Okay, so i’m the dragon. Big deal
Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out - Richard Siken
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I may look fine on the outside but on the inside I'm in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell me that he loves me, but he loves me. And I feel like I've done something terrible-
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“… And you realize the one person in this world who loves you Isn’t the one you thought it would be, and you don’t trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy”
(Siken 6).
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reading crush by richard siken. posting about it here to keep me honest
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sorry for richard siken posting do you still think im hot
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"We were inside the train car when I started to cry. You were crying too, smiling and crying in a way that made me even more hysterical. You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud."
"Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you."
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