Dawn Mackey

“He was raised without a proper diagnosis.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you are.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“With the rain falling
surgically against the roof,
I ate a dish of ice cream
that looked like Kafka's hat.
It was a dish of ice cream
tasting like an operating table
with the patient staring
up at the ceiling.”
― Richard Brautigan, Lay the Marble Tea

“Boo, Forever

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”
― Richard Brautigan, The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster