Islands
Mindaugas Buivydas
edited by me
Glenn Brown- Layered Portraits (after Lucian Freud) 1-9, 2008
the eroticism of brutalist architecture with ethel cain
the devil’s whispers:
you can do it tomorrow (if you don’t do it now you’ll never do it ever)
you have a lot of time left (life is actually pretty short and we don’t have that much time)
you can skip this one little thing today (you are functioning solely due to the fact that you have a routine)
i must respond to this one thing that is bothering me immediately (you don’t have to do anything, it’s all in ur head)
I must check my phone (u don’t have to do anything, it’s all in ur head)
panicking is productive (panicking never makes a situation better, but in fact exacerbates it)
I must listen to music while doing the most minute task (u don’t have to do anything, it’s all in ur head. and I like music as much as the next person but moments of sheer silence are crucial)
I must befriend everyone (some people just don’t mesh together and that is ok)
I can skip working out for the day (working out does so much for ur physical AND mental health)
If misfortune happens to me it’s because I am uniquely unlucky (misfortune has nothing to do with preordained circumstances and everything to do with random odds)
If I am mistreated it’s because I am a horrible person and I deserve it (most times people are projecting their issues onto u and it has nothing to do with u)
if I make a mistake I am uniquely horrible (we are all human and we all make mistakes. the important thing is to hold ourselves accountable and learn from them)
I must have this one thing I really want now (u don’t have to do anything, it’s all in ur head. also whatever u want will still be here tomorrow so this sense of urgency is false)
I am uniquely hated/disliked/ostracized (most people are busy w their own lives and don’t have the time to be hating on u. and if they really are then their life is pretty empty and their opinion should not be held in high regard to begin with)
dont mind the dirty ass windshield
July 27, 1932 Swan Lake, MN F3 twister.
through the pain, the agony
he would peel off my clothes
kissing every inch of my bare skin
biting the flesh, tenderising me
positioning himself on top
synchronicity, synergy
two bodies bathed and dancing in moonlight
the substance of his lust in words, he likes to whisper things
i am special
and presently, we are one
i feel a sudden surge of energy, it rushes up through my spine and into my skull
drawing my teeth to his neck
i desire quite violently
in my head i picture myself biting as hard as
i could
drowned in his ichor - we resume, despite the mess
his blood would cleanse me
like ocean water purified under the moon
tasting him worsened my ustulation
- otterley