Status Updates From You Better Be Lightning

“Silence rides shotgun
wherever hate goes.”

“I once watched a woman skip
her gravestone across a lake
like a smooth pebble. Death hops
if you let go at the right time.”

🤯

i’m trying to get better at reading poetry so i’m only reading one poem per day BUT i can read it as many times as i want.

i just read this poem seven times.

aka Gibson deserves all the hype.

That I didn’t just cancel what would have been healthy to cancel was a side effect of both shame and having been raised proudly working class by a father who hated having a heart attack less than he hated having to call in sick because of it.

and no one on Earth is tougher than a butch with a perm