Junk Quotes

“I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“In a way I'm indebted to disassociation Shouting gets so small it's almost quaint I fold it into my pocket Even now it's hard for me to come/back to my body It's here I hold all my selves all my junk And if everything that passes through the pile changes the pile: you have changed me The sentiment cut loose from shame floats free in the crescent evening”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“Content as it applies to creative effort and Brand is it applies to identity are the most disgusting words in human history”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“Fearless is wrong Not fear conquered but fear seen, lived alongside”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“You are the kind of person who keeps a white shirt white I am literally guac stains”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“New York will have you stomping thru a slow couple on the sidewalk even when you have no real place to go”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“There’s nothing surprising abt getting off Getting off is like, why are you so obsessed with me? Let’s talk after you’ve finished off Yr head is clearly fogged up in cum”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“A mirror fell the day I discovered I was living my future n for the first time in my adult life experienced a moment of happiness arm in arm w/ security All my little faces are smiling Life I look forward to living you completely with all my shattered selves All divisions of reflection All the ppl who ppl like us are required to be”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“Sucks bein a sometimes person Sometimes here sometimes there The mind like arthritis But really I'm lucky Some ppl never get ppl Some ppl make them up Get locked up for talking to them I've never been locked up but I did come out as bisexual & was afraid of my own voice once for 28 years But now karaoke And the whole block knows when I stub my toe”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“Thrift shop smell to a young fairy formatting normalcy is basic Not in the sense of boring but Elemental A thing yr composed of n composing A face in the mirror makin mirror-face Have you ever wondered why thrift stores always smell the same? The musk settles like a dusty comfort feeling Feel the tide of decision swell in and roll out never quite catching it”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

“I want to ask you this (and I am guilty of making ppl wade thru some bullshit b4 getting to my point): what do you turn to when breath dashes from yr body like it's on the lamb?”
― Tommy Pico, Junk