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In a Memphis coffee shop

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Whoever thought that the conflict between Israel and Philistine is on the land, just walking in darkness.

The curse of the firstborn's blessings ☠️

♦ Ismael was Abraham (the father of our nation) firstborn's son from the maid Hagar. Yet Ismael He did not receive the blessing of the firstborn . The one who received the blessing was his brother Yitzchak ben Sarah who received the blessing of birthright. We are guessing that he did not sit down and clap his hands in applause for Yitzchak who received the blessing instead. Ishmael created the seeds of jealousy.

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Unbearable

You are unbearable

In a way that I want to bite your bottom lip

To see if they taste as strawberry as they look

In a way that I look into a bookstore's window

And laugh at your pretentious love of

Embossed leather bound journals, like the one on the display

In a way that I try to place a song I've randomly hummed

Only to remember it because you keep belting it

In the shower while you use all the hot water to rinse your hair dye

In a way that I force forkfuls of the meat pie you've burnt in my maw

And resign myself to the loss of sweaters

And the presence of little birds with broken wings

You are unbearable in that

I have no money to buy you that journal,

Or the joy in my voice to sing that song like I'm praising a kinder god

I can only stomach food made by other hands

But they don't feel like home, they don't know how to make it like you do

You are unbearable in that

I know where you keep my sweaters, because I creep in

To drink your perfume and have my universe centered.

I cannot bear to kiss you, through it all, and break the mysticism if I knew

You don't taste like the sweetest fruit.

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#signal boost

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Couldn't Be Better

This is to us

And how we live our life like a dream

(A torn tee shirt stuffed in my mouth

To muff out my screams)

Especially to you, with your body like marble carved

And you've lived this long because you've never starved

(Since you dine on my miseries like a queen

With your lacquered-lipped smile to end scene)

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Occasionally, I'd remember that I need to do some actual work for my novel writing outside of writing novels.

To try to get back to a project that I've left for too long, I'm plotting with index cards! (Well, technically, they're scrap cardstock for scrapbooking because why spend extra money when you have these?) I don't know why, though, because I now want to work on another novel, an interracial romcom set in S. Korea.

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Probably not.

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Idk why the text background was like that, but whatever.

Anyway: 📖 📕 📘 📗 📓 📚 📖

#book #spilled milk

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I'm bleeding out of my mouth, love

And I'm drooling through my teeth, love

And I'm sweating out the sick, love

And I'm pissing out the sex, love

This isn't necromancy, love, just the steps to it.

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Empty Room

I won't ask you to shake off the nonsense,

Because it's all you've known,

But keep the suggestion in the back of your head

K?

Because you're tired.

You've rolled with the punches so long

You're waiting for that perfect side-eye

To start bobbing and weaving.

You don't know how crazy you look

To the kids on the train.

What life is there if there's no

Staying on your guard?

But, baby, put the knife down,

Spit out the teeth and liquor.

You ain't Atlas - shrug it off.

Stop acting the fool in this empty room.

B&N

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And it's a go!

Only the thistle survived.

Only the goddamn thistle survived

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This is supposed to be a sapphic romance...

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