Ashe Vernon's Blog, page 150
September 14, 2015
I hate when people are like “well if you can’t see yourself being with them forever, why...
I hate when people are like “well if you can’t see yourself being with them forever, why bother?”–as if relationships with other human beings are not inherently valuable. As if permanence is the only thing that makes a relationship worth having. As if we do not need different things at different points in our lives.
There are days where I don’t need a forever. Days where I don’t want a forever. There are people who suit my life, now, but who would hate the person I was five years ago, or the person I will be five years from now.
There are people I have deeply, deeply loved and will never see again–but it’s not as though I would want to get rid of them just because we weren’t “forever.”
It just makes me so mad that people trivialize impermanence. Fucking hell, we’re all gonna die one day. Might as well enjoy the time you have with the people you have. Don’t scorn the idea of temporary when you got the idea of a “happily ever after” from a fairy tale.
September 13, 2015
imagine: me, perpetually writing love poems about people I’ve never touched.
imagine: me, perpetually writing love poems about people I’ve never touched.
concept: me, perpetually writing love poems about people I’ve never touched.
concept: me, perpetually writing love poems about people I’ve never touched.
Ashe, I've fallen in love with your poetry. Is there a site from which I can buy an ebook of wrong side of a fistfight? I would gladly buy the paperback but i don't live in the States and postal service it's a bit messy here. Thank you <3
Aw, thank you so much! Here you go, babydoll–this is a link to the ebook.
"She pins you to hotel doors—
not a goddess anymore,
but she still looks like religion in high..."
not a goddess anymore,
but she still looks like religion in high heels.
She kisses you godless. Whispers,We dress like princesses to go out and kill kings.”
- Ashe Vernon, from “Old World Gods,” Wrong Side of a Fistfight
(via lifeinpoetry)
September 12, 2015
"I don’t know how to not
love people when they’re hurting.
I guess that’s why I keep falling in..."
love people when they’re hurting.
I guess that’s why I keep falling in love
with open wounds and then not understanding
when we are nothing but blood
in a lifeboat.”
- LONELY POET PUTS WORDS TO IT by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
"There’s a certain amount of
wish fulfillment in writing.
When I’m feeling unlovable,
I can take..."
wish fulfillment in writing.
When I’m feeling unlovable,
I can take that one of two ways:
I can either write myself a world where I am
infinitely lovable and infinitely loved
and so, feel a little less alone in the world I’m
living in: the one where I am neither
as lovable or as unlovable as I pretend to be.
Or
I can write myself a place where I am just as disgusting,
unwanted, and unworthy as I think I am.
And with this, there’s something even more satisfying
because then I can pretend
to be right.”
- LONELY POET GETS SELF-REFLECTIVE by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
September 11, 2015
"The closest thing I’ve ever had
to a serious relationship
was a body on a telephone wire–
a suicide..."
to a serious relationship
was a body on a telephone wire–
a suicide in a phone booth–
an electrocution in slow motion.”
- LONELY POET WRITES ILL-FITTING METAPHORS by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
"I think the funniest thing is that
I never actually told you I was in love with you
and yet I still..."
I never actually told you I was in love with you
and yet I still talk about you like an open wound.
I wonder
if you would even see yourself
in these poems if you read them.
I wonder if you’d invent another boy who
loved me better or
loved me worse and
attribute all this leftover heartache to him.”
- LONELY POET CRACKS JOKES by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
