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May 25 - June 9, 2022
But that’s the interesting thing about suicide. It’s a personal thing, perhaps the most personal thing of all, the very last measure of control. Thus, having someone else do it doesn’t count. Instinct will revolt if the executioner isn’t you.
Suicide Control
You feel bad because they feel bad, not because you actually regret letting the angel fuck
Angel Fuck
Sobriety is a world of sharp edges and pain, and I will never understand why you wouldn’t avoid it if you had the choice.
Sobriety
But really, to my nine-year-old self, the reasons mattered little. I just didn’t want to be afraid and in pain.
Afraid And in pain
A garbage is the mirror to the soul.
Addicts soul
Her words swung like a pendulum inside a grandfather clock, one side then the other, to believing what she said, to wishing it were true.
Pendulum Words
souls seeping out of them, ready to go to Heaven or Hell.
Souls seeping
head was spinning like water draining down a sink, swirling and swirling, taking me down with it.
Swirling Down
all life…traded away for a fleeting pleasure, a happy trip, the ultimate high.
Life High
Yeah, drugs are so damn glorious they shut down the part of your brain that dishes out common sense. If you, like me, didn’t have much of it to begin with, you’re royally fucked.
Common sense
every person you meet is two or three bad decisions away from being a junkie, homeless, dealing with a horrible disease, or getting a bullet to the back of the head.
2-3 decisions
All humans are born flawed, naturally defective.
Flawed
listened to the silence as I drove and thought about how the only constant thing when it comes to God is his unresponsiveness.
God unresponsive
telling her lies and filling her with poison love and a sinister high.
Poison Love
the infection was about to spread and replace her soul.
Infected Soul
But the moment was gone. It had flown by as the best things always fly by,
The moment
His young, helpless anger at some school injustice
School Injustice
