“Shame thrives in silence, and wants more of it. The language of shame is silence. I wanted to incorporate silence, and silencing, into a poem, and was able to approximate that by blacking out language. What is unsaid becomes a visible absence—the hole I was writing around.”
— Leila Chatti, from an interview with Sneha Subramanian Kanta in Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (via skgroutpoetry)
You are forever one decision away from an entirely different life.
Focusing on what’s rooted in reality has reduced so much of my overthinking time. If a friend is already out of my life, there’s no point dissecting our interactions from back when we were friends. If I already broke up w someone, there’s no point thinking about the could-have-beens because they will never happen. If I’m into someone but it wouldn’t work for whatever reason, then it just doesn’t. Something just is or just isn’t. There’s a lesson to take from everything but I also don’t want to use that as a catch-all excuse of getting into the weeds for something when the weeds have already been cut off and it doesn’t even matter anymore
youre gonna grow up and realize just how much more lightheartedness you need in life
Slow Kill, Jordan Charlton
2025
ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR
KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK
PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM
EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE
“For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”
— Simon Van Booy
Miguel Hernández, from The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez "Elegy for Ramón Sijé,"
H A P P Y T R I G G E R, Milk and Filth, Carmen Giménez