Girls Be Like *he Is My Comfort Character* And Then Bam Its The Most Emotionally Traumatised Ficitonal

girls be like *he is my comfort character* and then bam its the most emotionally traumatised ficitonal man you’ve ever seen

'“It’s the little cruelties that get you,” she told him. “Never the big hurts, the pains you can point to, and say, ‘Oh, I see this bruise,’ but the wounds that you can’t even tell are there until one day you are eating a bowl of fennel soup or sunbathing on the deck of the pool and you can’t move, you can’t do anything, because you think, Well, something is dead in me, what has been done to me, and why did I allow this to happen? And now, and now, and now…”’

- Regina Porter, The Travelers

5 poems about gay teenage sexual experimentation

marie howe, “practicing,” 1998

ocean vuong, “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” (excerpt), from night sky with exit wounds, 2014

angie sijun lou, “jessica gives me a chill pill” (excerpt), 2018

danez smith, “seroconversion,” from don’t call us dead, 2017

richard siken, “you are jeff” (excerpt), from crush, 2005

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“I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little boy and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— One Night from Dito Montiel’s A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

“I have a photograph of you when we ate an orange in bed. What month was that in? What did you want from me? Every book is a book, is a thing you feel by yourself. You are here. I am alone in this poem.”

— Alex Dimitrov, You Were Blond Once (via sagmoonn)