IRL Quotes

“Good/Bad,
Right/Wrong, Binary is
another weapon of the
oppressor Justifies conquest
And is a method to ensure
survivors, if there are any, will
always question their worth
to literally just live.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“The ceremony of nighttime,
the cauldron of echoes, smells,
the Earth's shadow over itself—
curates an intimate thought
process, a witchy kind
of attention. The sun is
too canine for me. Drooling
and jumping and expects thanks
for just being.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“America
reclines undying I want America
to know who is still dying
for its sins. I want America taken
alive w/ all my names.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Witnessing luxury makes
me feel like I can't say shit.
Money is very sharp,
very elbows and knees
behind those pinchy cheeks.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“I am the captain of my shit”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Everything is so extra,
it gets hard
to know what to actually
give a fuck about.
It's okay to be alone vs I'm
gonna die alone”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Later, I pull
the peach curtains
closed. Springs groan,
I hit the pillow. I am
alone.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Out in the mountains
animal howls in the sky flatten
& diffuse. I forgot silence,
like hands cupped over
ears, huge swath of valleys
of silence, makes its own
skin.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Radio blasting
Who has stopped singing Fear
is like a gift that keeps on
giving, but the opposite: series
of horrors that reframe
even the most passing
interactions”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“You know, it's
the prospect of Muse
leaving (threat of freedom)
not Muse coming (threat
of stains) that gets me
on my pen game.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Shade
your eyes. The sparks
are scattering, as a sentence,
gives you the idea that sparks
continue to scatter A continuous
present like a long exposure
photo—Some things can go on
forever...”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Likin a boy, wanting to be public
with that like, bein all he-ey
or PDA
is very grave for ppl
like us secrets r quaint.
Privacy is on its last leg.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“The questions cairn Stones
pile slowly inside Until
silence. Static is the
enemy of decision”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Tradition is a cage”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“We know
we're doing it slow,
steady, instead of all
at once like ppl w/ guts”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Boundaries
aren't cages.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“We just get com-
fortable with each other
at a time when comfort
something come stop the shaking
is more important than
privacy”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“There is a kind of power
in being reviled
for just *being*”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Surely Muse will want
to kiss me bc I appear
disinterested in kissing.
This is my technique.
Lol so far, so alone. What
the hell do you expect?
Emotional transparency?
What kind of artless
simpleton says what they
truly feel?”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“Alien
invasion overlord movies
r cute in a Monet way.
I survive seven generations
into a post-apocalyptic America
that started in 1492. Maybe
you'll live too?”
― Tommy Pico, IRL

“I want to be normal enough to fuck.”
― Tommy Pico, IRL