“You May’ve Bought The Gun,

If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit, the least you can do is try to forgive them.

Saga, Vol. 4, Chapt. 23

Large Dead Leaf No. 2 (1966) by Eliot Hodgkin

The Courtroom Funeral: April 16th, 2021

“You, I did it all for you. Do you know who I am? Do you know just what to do? Now you're all that I have, Is it fair to love me, too?

You, it hurts because of you. And I'll kiss you through a hazmat suit, That's what I'll do if I have to.

You seem to know who I am, As though you know just what to do. Now you're all that I have, Is it fair to love me, too?

And you, I did it all for you.”

--“If I Don’t Have To,” Keaton Henson

When things bottom out in the backyard, after that many drinks After that many times you didn’t see your daughter After that many times you weren’t what you wanted to be, or do, or achieve There is always dirt beneath your fingernails.

RMS, 8/23/2018

The Selk: two years free, flowing, and floating.

(RMS, 8-31-2022.)

“She began to do as she liked and to feel as she liked. She had resolved never to take another step backward.” - Kate Chopin, The Awakening (via the-book-diaries)

Finally got to thank them for saving my life after twenty years.

Seaside Halloween tree.

(RMS, 10-20-2022.)

Caged, your dress riding up your ass Kicking at your cast Limping, yet harassing the dance floor Caged here, too, within the concrete and glass and the metal my mind is for itself I’ll dance with you, darling New friend. Someone without bounds. I used to be you I fear to be you.

RMS, 9/9/2018