my painful never ending desire to be beautiful is the most self destructive thing about me
Sophocles' Electra (tr. Peter Meineck & Paul Woodruff)
because it is the only thing that has never left.
“I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? / I’m not too gone am I?”
— Alice Notley, from In the Pines
RAY IS SO YOUNG HERE.
[ID: Ray toro speaking into a microphone looking very young also on stage /end ID]
when i was post op after top surgery i had a good friend there with me to help recover. but the nurse didnt get the memo and when i woke up she was like “ok i’m gonna go get your girlfriend and bring her in to see you!” and i remember being so zonked on anesthesia and so disoriented i just laid there thinking wow…… all that an they’re bringing me a girlfriend too this place is amazing
