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“Isn't it funny? How the cold numbs everything but grief.
If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.”
― Bright Dead Things
If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.”
― Bright Dead Things
“You've gone to get us gas station coffee
and there is so much life all over the place.”
― Bright Dead Things
and there is so much life all over the place.”
― Bright Dead Things
“I thought I could die and be happy and be humbled
by luck of a first love and a first full-fledged fuck.”
― Bright Dead Things
by luck of a first love and a first full-fledged fuck.”
― Bright Dead Things
“Is it weird to say that I could hear you dying like that?”
― Bright Dead Things
― Bright Dead Things
“The Conditional
Say tomorrow doesn't come.
Say the moon becomes an icy pit.
Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.
Say the sun's a foul black tire fire.
Say the owl's eyes are pinpricks.
Say the raccoon's a hot tar strain.
Say the shirt's plastic ditch-litter
Say the kitchen's a cow's corpse.
Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never
coming close, never dazzling.
Say we never meet her. Never him.
Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn't matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you'd still want this: us alive,
right there, feeling lucky.”
― Bright Dead Things
Say tomorrow doesn't come.
Say the moon becomes an icy pit.
Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.
Say the sun's a foul black tire fire.
Say the owl's eyes are pinpricks.
Say the raccoon's a hot tar strain.
Say the shirt's plastic ditch-litter
Say the kitchen's a cow's corpse.
Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never
coming close, never dazzling.
Say we never meet her. Never him.
Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn't matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you'd still want this: us alive,
right there, feeling lucky.”
― Bright Dead Things
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