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they tell you you’re an abomination to God how so? You speak to God more often now than ever before.
it is what it is.
don’t stop.
Look for yourself, because it never
helps to hear from anyone else.
Stop trying to die. Serve your time here.
there is a time coming in your life when dirt settles and the patterns form a picture.
they never held you back. It was you, only you.
I love the word love, I do but only far from home.
you’re never exactly the same, twice.
the relief of leaving things behind.
it is irregular it is difficult and always, always surprising.
One day I will tell you what I’ve been. It will scare you.
don’t
you dare give up now
The roof is screwed on too tight at times and the walls of our house can pinch a little but, my God, they are always warm.
You only need spices to throw in the bowl you only need flour to make some kind of bread and maybe somebody to lie in the dark with. Somebody’s hands to touch.
how you are loved.
Smile with all of your teeth, even the rotting ones. Even the rotting ones.
You will come away bruised.
Maybe your life will work. Most likely it wont at first but that will give you poetry.
See how your spirit has been fermenting.
Seize that loveliness. It has always been yours.
Today is the first day of the rest of it. Of course there will be other first days but none exactly like this.