Status Updates From The Ancestry of Objects

a week feels like a month of the screen door swinging Come, Go

we don’t understand who we are becoming or if it will be better than who we were before, but we know we are angry, and that the anger is our own

in the memories we make of the future

it occurs to us to want a love like this. someone to get safely lost in. to be such a person

make me in your image, make me wealthy, comfortable, secure. make me someone with someone

her body so learned in his body

“we think of the hands of a childhood friend…she laughed easily with anyone, and we understood even then that it was incorrect to call her our friend because what we loved most about her was that she could not be contained or owned. but we were hers absolutely, because we required ownership to exist.”

i find them everywhere

but we’ve learned already that freedom is a more difficult cage to escape than oppression