Ashe Vernon's Blog, page 10
September 5, 2017
"Fear wears a pinstripe suit that
makes him look so small.
He chants “I’m sorry” like a prayer
in a..."
makes him look so small.
He chants “I’m sorry” like a prayer
in a religion no one knows the name of,
but everyone keeps paying tithes to.
A man trying to be holy
who keeps snapping the whip
against his own back. A martyr,
but only for an audience.
He’s dangerous, but
you don’t want him to be dangerous.
You want him to be
SORRY SORRY SORRY
just like you are always
SORRY SORRY SORRY.
He shrinks–until the suit balloons
around him, until he’s just big enough
to get stuck in your throat. Until
you’re choking on him. And he whispers:
“You think you aren’t afraid of being alone,
but you’re lying to yourself.”
And he’s in your mouth and he is your mouth
and he’s a smooth talker. A conman and a
swindler. The boy you trusted up until
the moment you didn’t.
Fear is the hand on your belt and
the breath on your back and
he’s making ugly promises. He says,
“It’s you and me and ME AND ME AND ME
AND I’LL ALWAYS BE HERE.”
And he coos, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”
And he pants, “It’ll just be–us.”
And he says,
“I never meant to hurt you.”
And you don’t correct him.
And you kiss him
just to make him leave.”
- SMOOTH TALKER, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
September 2, 2017
haleyincarnate:
Excerpt from “FIRST” by Ashe Vernon...
Excerpt from “FIRST” by Ashe Vernon (@latenightcornerstore), featured in their poetry collection Belly of the Beast
August 20, 2017
August 17, 2017
iboughtplumblossoms:
Snaphots, Ashe Vernon
and here, I’d like to...
Snaphots, Ashe Vernon
and here, I’d like to take a moment
to submit a formal apology to my soft parts
because they kept me warm
when I was trying to freeze to death,
and I hated them for it. An apology
for a starvation that went deeper than my skin.
One for the strongest skeleton I will ever own
and how I kept using the word girl against it.
Or how I turned words like beautiful into shapes
I could contort myself into. I didn’t mean
to compare myself to faces I can’t have.
July 30, 2017
July 29, 2017
"This is the story of how I never stopped running. This is the story of how,
when the wolves knocked,..."
when the wolves knocked, I met them at the door and I became the beast, instead.”
- Ashe Vernon, Belly of the Beast
July 9, 2017
"You will spend the next seven years
falling in and out of love
and vehemently denying that the..."
falling in and out of love
and vehemently denying that the word
has ever belonged to you.
Stop feeling so ashamed of it.
There is nothing wrong with being
a little bit reckless,
a little bit wild,
a little bit in love,
a little bit too soon.”
- A LETTER FOR MY FIRST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
July 6, 2017
latenightcornerstore:latenightcornerstore:Hey lovebugs. I’m probably going to disappear for a little...
Hey lovebugs. I’m probably going to disappear for a little while. Due to a scammer and a fraudulent charge on my account, my bank account is now almost 4000 in the red. The police and the bank have essentially said there’s nothing they can do about it and I’m still reeling from it. I won’t be around much until I’ve gotten moved out of my apartment and sorted through some of this chaos.
I love you all. Take care of yourselves. Protect yourselves.
I’ve had a couple people ask how they could help. If you want to donate to my paypal, it’s ashe.vernon@yahoo.com
thanks a million, i love you
latenightcornerstore:
latenightcornerstore:
Hey lovebugs. I’m probably going to disappear for a...
Hey lovebugs. I’m probably going to disappear for a little while. Due to a scammer and a fraudulent charge on my account, my bank account is now almost 4000 in the red. The police and the bank have essentially said there’s nothing they can do about it and I’m still reeling from it. I won’t be around much until I’ve gotten moved out of my apartment and sorted through some of this chaos.
I love you all. Take care of yourselves. Protect yourselves.
I’ve had a couple people ask how they could help. I may try to set up a youcaring thing for it, but until then if you want to donate to my paypal, it’s ashe.vernon@yahoo.com
thanks a million, i love you
latenightcornerstore:
Hey lovebugs. I’m probably going to disappear for a little while. Due to a...
Hey lovebugs. I’m probably going to disappear for a little while. Due to a scammer and a fraudulent charge on my account, my bank account is now almost 4000 in the red. The police and the bank have essentially said there’s nothing they can do about it and I’m still reeling from it. I won’t be around much until I’ve gotten moved out of my apartment and sorted through some of this chaos.
I love you all. Take care of yourselves. Protect yourselves.
I’ve had a couple people ask how they could help. I may try to set up a youcaring thing for it, but until then if you want to donate to my paypal, it’s ashe.vernon@yahoo.com
thanks a million, i love you
