I want my gravestone to read: Accepted elsewhere Thank you for your consideration

One of the hardest opening paragraphs of all time btw

yeah sex is cool and all but have you ever crawled out of the worst depression of your life and got your spark back

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. — Sharon Olds

“I have seen men survive diseases that women do not because of the care that women caregivers provide to their male partner when they are sick-I have only seen that happen once or twice for a female patient being taken care of by a man when she is sick.” My jaw is on the floor.

Apparently, lemons are not naturally occurring. They're a hybrid by cross breeding a bitter orange and a citron. So basically life never gave us lemons, we created them ourselves.

having teenagers go straight to university and make decisions that impact the rest of their lives.

Do you know what’s an effective form of suicide prevention? Universal basic income. Affordable housing. Free healthcare.

I absolutely love when magazines pair my words with artwork and photographs from amazing artists. As a huge art fan with no skill in the visual arts department this is the closest I ever come to living my little art history baby dreams. Never fails to make me happy. Huge thanks.

Trauma doesn't make people stronger. It damages their nervous system. It hijacks their digestive track. It keeps the person in a constant loop of hypervigilance. To tell someone they are stronger because of trauma is to deny what it has cost them to survive.

A lot of people don't see creative work as actual work, but one of the hardest jobs is renting out your brain for a living.

just in case no one tells u today. you're worth having around. you're worth committing to. you're worth appreciating. you're worth loving

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Sorry but there just isn’t a better poem to set off a transformative eclipse season Zagajewski (transl. Clare Cavanagh)

Sarah Ens:

when you can’t remember if you took your meds so you start opening the pill bottle to see if the experience feels familiar enough to have happened recently

I get this question lots: what do I wish I knew 20 years ago? I wish I knew it all matters. you're still a writer when you're not writing the book, when you're living it, all the thinking, all the quitting, all the pointlessness still counts. You already are, so go through it

you've heard "cut the beginning of the poem" and "this poem ends several lines before its end," but what I am proposing I do from now on is eliminating the middle of the poem too

Tried to write some non-fiction and ended up crying to too hard and had to stop. So now I’m going to write something about witches or monsters that is secretly about the thing that made me cry. Take that, trauma! Bet you can’t find me hiding in all this magical stuff! Eat it!