i don’t want to grow up but god, i can’t wait to get older…

trying not to cry in the holiday i… my mama said something mean again

but i don’t think you were ever built to be a mother, and i never learned how to love you without it burning me from the inside out. i was raised to trust you through every betrayal and...

i think i do my best to be good wh… it’s not shaped for my kind of rag… it has no place for sickness, and… i drown in it, i suffocate in it. paradise is not a hospice, but i a…

i hope you know that you’re still my favorite hiding place and through it all, you’re still my favorite secret keeper

i gave you open front doors, swing… i left you out in my backyard with… it’s not my fault you stayed like… i screamed your name over a coal e… standing in the middle of the trai…

there’s something so forgiving in being angry on behalf of a chil… who no one was angry for.

you ask me if i have dreams and i start telling you about the… that haunt me when i try to sleep but then you look at me and laugh uncomfortably and say,

i painted a crane on the wall yest… i’ve got a jade bracelet sitting i… i can’t wear it anymore, because i… thanks, grandma, but now it’s coll… not bringing much beauty or luck a…

i flick the lighter on, on, on off. a useless fidget, one that turns my thumb gray and r…

i’m in love with sharks in aquariu… here’s the thing: there’s nothing… more than a shark tank in big citi… there’s so many of them, and they’… they go through every endless circ…

i go from adoring to loathing at t… hi baby! oh, you forgot to do the… didn’t know you were a backstabbin… mistakes aren’t mistakes, that everyone makes.

i want to cry and count all your f… decorate your face with stickers a… then maybe you could hold me and w… do you think?

i love breaking your heart. call me a sadist, i don’t particul… i’ll reel you back in like a trout…

“who do you think you look like mo… on a hot august day (as they usual… “your mom or your dad?” you swung back and forth on the wo… i drawled my reply, thick as the a…