“Janey: Oh, I decided you were a UBH.
Father: What's that? (Laughing)
Janey (laughing): An Unnecessarily Brutal Horror.”
― Blood and Guts in High School
Father: What's that? (Laughing)
Janey (laughing): An Unnecessarily Brutal Horror.”
― Blood and Guts in High School
“history / tries to narrate our ruin. What does it know / of the burrs on your hands?”
― The Agonist
― The Agonist
“You bare your throat to the stars— [...] —and at daybreak you pull the knife from your gut”
― The Agonist
― The Agonist
“I carried my history / in the clench of my jaw”
― The Agonist
― The Agonist
“Something in my body / thirsts to be held under the water”
― The Agonist
― The Agonist
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