I go outside regularly
no you don't
okay fine I go outside weirdly

I go outside regularly
no you don't
okay fine I go outside weirdly
i'm like a bored insane housewife but i'm not married.
“But then it passed, as all things do.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“And no one is me. No one is you. This is solitude.”
— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
I wanted to be loved more than I wanted to be alive. For so long
I thought not to be loved is good but to be loved is to be good.
All those years, convinced — surely I must be bad, the way you keep punishing me.
— Leila Chatti, from “Faulty,” published in Prairie Schooner
today’s date is the 3rd? what’s next, the 4th? the 5th? the minor fall, the major lift?
Otto Piene, Schwarze Sonne, 1962-1963, oil and charcoal on canvas