Why Do I Even Do This

Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems

what the fuck is actually happening in america right now

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

“it’s starting to smell like pumpkin spice!”

“it’s starting to smell like scary movies!”

no.

it’s starting to smell like, the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.

sometimes a teenage girl is franz kafka

hi guys long time no see grief descends upon me daily like the eagle descends on prometheus

Gennady Aygi, from Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi; “This Year’s Roses: Notes on K., 1972” (translated by Sarah Valentine)

Text ID: I seek / your image. / In the receding Fire. / It is not here—not in this world.

why is everyone obsessed over romeo and juliet when the holy trinity of gay tragic lovers exits!? like alexander the great, achilles and apollo didn’t lose hephaestion, patroclus and hyacinthus for everyone to forget about them!! like they’re the same but one is a myth, the other is a book, and the one that was real

Orpheus tries to hold on to Eurydice

.c. 1791

Artist : François Gérard (1770-1837)

Margaret Atwood, from ‘Crickets’, The Door (2007)