one of my favorite collections this year
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26, he/they. i like poetry, gothic lit, classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, and much more. i'm a huge mood reader and take forever to finish longer books. lorca get behind me!
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rubén reviewed Calling a wolf a wolf by Kaveh Akbar
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is …
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rubén quoted Calling a wolf a wolf by Kaveh Akbar
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is …
I swear to God I swear at God I won’t mention what He does to me I lack nothing I need unless you count everything I want I’m meant to be spreading tenderness over the earth like seeds like worms instead I’ve been shoveling coal into burning houses fanning the ash hold your applause hold the horns curling out from my skull which are getting so long now and so sharp
[...] once I cut open my thigh on a razor wire fence and filled the wound with Kleenex somehow it healed leaving only a long white scar the penalties for my disregard have always been oversoft deterring nothing I’ve made it clear I am not to be trusted with a body always leaving mine bloodless as ice with just a needle of breath left in its lungs