Kass 🖤

— The War Boys (2009)

I don’t want to hurt people with my death

Instead I hurt myself with my existence

Call me at night and tell me you wanted to hear my voice

Hiba Abu Nada, from I Grant You Refuge (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

it’s quiet here

Sleepy girls deserve to wake up with their holes filled and dripping

Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

i love it when men have those sad brown eyes