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I have a very strict “I don’t read short stories” policy but I’m breaking that for Ali

Personally I think that poets should be in charge of everything, all the time

I’m on my period and I did cry at the hot dog essay

Life changing, spellbinding

“Invisible links like these were running between all of the people in the room that day, like they always are, like thin strands of light you couldn’t see but you were there nonetheless.”

ali smith is my Taylor swift

“The conviction that the desert is a barren wasteland feeds into a moral void that powerful actors find inviting. Land perceived as devoid of life can hardly then be understood as stripped of it.“

“Is it possible to communicate loneliness if the only person you're sharing it with is yourself? I looked around my little house and thought: Oh! Is that a prayer? I got down on my knees and I bowed my head and folded my hands and whispered dear God, bring me love. Bring me love. Bring me true love. Bring me love. I opened my eyes & got back up and walked to the bedroom and got into bed next to Aggie and waited.”

"God, I said, help me to live. God, I need your help. I need to live. Please? I need help living. God. Help. I had never learned how to pray properly. It didn't make sense that god would require me to articulate my pain in order for him to feel it and respond."

“God, I said, help me to live. God, I need your help. I need to live. Please? I need help living. God. Help. I had never learned how to pray properly. It didn’t make sense that god would require me to articulate my pain in order for him to feel it and respond.”

Miriam 😭

I lied! One last Ali smith for the year…

“Then you'd say words I'd never heard of, words that didn't really sound like they were words. It was good, that things didn't have to mean. It was a relief. It was strangely intimate, too, you speaking to me and me having no idea what you were saying.

Guide a ruckus, you said now. Trav a brose. Spoo yat tacky. Clot so. Scoofy.

Tell me what else happens, I said. Say more things
like that.”

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