Nut Meg

“And no one can ever figure out what you want,
and you won't tell them,
and you realize the person who loves you isn't the one you thought it would be,
and you don't trust him to love you in a way
you would enjoy.

And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy.
And the boy who loves you in the wrong way keeps weakening.
You thought if you handed over your body
he'd do something interesting.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“In the same decades that saw the rise of mass incarceration, the number of beds available in state mental hospitals across the country dropped from 339 beds per 100,000 people in 1955 to under 20 beds per 100,000 people by 2015. There are now ten times as many mentally ill people in our prisons and jails as there are in state mental institutions.”
― Peter Edelman, Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America

“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
― Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems

“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”
― Doc Luben, Love Letters or Suicide Notes