SUCCESSION | 4.09 Church and State "You cannot follow the dead, but you can follow a legend until it stains you on the lips, jaw, teeth, until you are its primary evidence." — Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium
musings on making homes out of others
richard siken, edvard munch, john keats, alex venezia, hanya yanagihara, hadestown (‘come with me’), amy lowell, mark english, warsan shire
I am a servant for my mothers unhappiness. I can make myself smaller, mother, I can become quieter. I am a wound that you can’t stop picking. I take scraps from dinner as little parts of love. I know that I am not easy to love. I know I wear my sadness so visibly that you’ve become ashamed of me. Make me small, crush me up in the palms of your hands. Destroy me for breakfast and devour me for lunch, leave nothing left of me, not even for the birds. Eat me. Eat me up. It’s too late to apologise now, sorry means nothing when you’re choking on my leftovers.
— Hannah Green, from “Are you still hungry, Mother?”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Margaret Atwood
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Yves Olade, Bloodsport
whetstonegirl
the way somebody comes back but only in a dream
1.)Hannah Lock, Not Quite Here / 2.)Wendell Berry, “A Meeting” / 3.)Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, tr. Anne Carson / 4.)Leila Chatti, “I Dreamed I Forgot” / 5.)Anna Akhmatova, Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems, tr. Lenore Mayhew & William Mcnaughton / 6.)John Berger, A Seventh Man / 7.)Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, tr. Anne Carson / 8.)Xie Lei, Blow / 9.)Frank Bidart, “Light” / 10.)Li Qingzhao, “Tune: Pertridge Sky,” tr. Jiaosheng Wang / 11.)The Dog Island. Ubisoft, 2007 / 12.)Elisa Gonzalez, “After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad” / 13.)Ōtomo No Yakamochi, Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese, tr. Kenneth Rexroth / 14.)@/solavey, indigo / 15.)Louise Glück, 12.6.71
I WISH I WAS BITE SIZED.
tanya tucker / cj hauser / franz kafka / mary lambert (@heavensghost ) / ib vyache / cj hauser / sun yuan and peng yu / mitski
if we forgive our fathers, what do you we have left?
shameless // Desireé Dallagiacomo // Jamaica Kincaid // euphoria // jobless monday, mitski // Haddon Sandblom // ? // the end of the f world //Smoke Signals // Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
“Where do I see it ending? With me on top, like always.” Better Call Saul - Season 6 (April 18 - August 15, 2022)
“I just hope that one day- preferably when we’re both blind drunk- we can talk about it.”
— J.D. Salinger; Franny and Zooey
What is a home if not the first place you learn to run from?
Richard kadrey // Clementine von Radics // Taylor Swift // Alice (1988) // Amanda Lovelace // sue zhao // ? // Édouard Levé //Emily Berry // ?
Kaveh Akbar, from “Portrait of the Alcoholic Stranded Alone on a Desert Island”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf