I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.
It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
Gym should be illegal. It’s humiliating.
This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you’ve never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.
Can’t escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.
If I ever form a clan, we’ll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.
I doubt trees are ever told to ‘be the screwed-up ninth-grader.’
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
Having a friend made everything else suck less.
Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs...
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.
They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.
The world is a strange and wonderful place.
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
Don’t be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you’re not afraid of anyone.
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They’re not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There’s just regret.
Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that’s what makes the jukebox spin.
If I’m confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It’s not a meditation that anyone taught me, it’s something I’ve done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future.