Perplexities & Passages

the24project:

This is how you make a life: 
Pull talking out of people like a dentist performing a root canal. Hurt them 
with the pulling. Haul it out energetically, 
spread the talking around you like blankets, until you can’t 
hear each other over all the muffled syllables, the too-long vowels. 

Real life is like this:

the24project:

Desdemona

He was a brute and I knew it,

real bad news,

but I loved the smell of danger,

his animal reek.

He loved me more,

gave me a fistful of it,

collecting bruises like love tokens

and broken bones like Valentines.

My arm, twisted.

My…