my heart is a little heavy
julie | xxvi —
"if we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire"
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“I miss you like a lonely little dog,
like all creatures that love without
really being good for anything else”
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watching my friend pretend her heart isn’t breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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On Earth just a teaspoon of a neutron star
would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons
equals the collective weight of every animal
on earth. Including the insects. Times three.
Six billion tons sounds impossible
until I consider how it is to swallow grief--
just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed
a neutron star. How dense it is,
how it carries nside it the memory of collapse.
How difficult it is to move then.
How impossible to believe that anything
could lift that weight.
There are many reasons to treat each other
with great tenderness. One is
the sheer miracle that we are here together
on a planet surrounded by dying stars.
One is that we cannot see what
anyone else has swallowed.
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An interloper from a more ignorant time....... He would not understand this world......
ALTAngela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Collected Stories
i think i’ve sewn my heart a little too tightly onto my sleeve
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