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the other day you told me
you hoped all my dreams
would someday come true
and i laughed
because i always dream
such terrible things.

(but maybe you knew that?)
it's hilarious that i promised myself i would write plenty this summer and i couldn't find it in myself to even open up my writing folders and now that school is starting i am writing all the time.

university is going brilliantly, by the way. i think i've finally decided upon a major.
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i-am-a-bridgewalker's avatar
my god this is so fucking true.

really speaks to that wedge that selling your existence to art can drive between you and other human beings. when that delicious ache that's beating in you is essential as breathing and those on the outside have to either accept that or leave (and so, so often they leave.)

again, not super fond of the last line. it almost feels like a stronger piece without the going-back-on-itself (which I believe is half-implied already.) as a reader, I almost always prefer it when the piece is left with open pages rather than rushing to its own conclusion.

you are a lovely writer.