Status Updates From Poeme alese

"I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!
(...)
I have come back,
recommitted,
fastened to the wall like a bathroom plunger,
held like a prisoner
who was so poor
he fell in love with jail."

darling, bring with this an hour of undulations, for this is the music for which I was born

the story of his life
is the story of mine
I have one glass eye
my nerves push against its panted surface
but the other one
waiting for judgement
continues to see…

“ugly angels spoke to me. The blame, I heard them say, was mine. They tatted— like green witches in my head, letting doom leak like a broken faucet”

"She never labelled herself a 'feminist', bur her fruitful career did indeed break through her assigned role as a 'housewife' in the fifties and early sixties (...) In her copy of the groundbreaking 'The Feminine Mystique' by the American author Betty Friedan, Anne underlined so hard with her pencil that the page was scored, as she wrote repeatedly in the margin 'This is me! Me!'"