Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel
[Text ID: “I wanted to be chosen, maybe loved. I wanted out of my life, out of my skin,”]
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath // @lucidloving // Frank Bidart, “The Third Hour of the Night” // David Bowie // Yves Olade, “Topograph” // Sharon Olds, “Something is Happening”
Kaveh Akbar, from “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf
[text: I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
This may be me at my best.]
Charles Bukowski, “I also like to look at ceilings,” from The People Look Like Flowers At Last