#snakes do that because they’ve outgrown their old one

[quynhorlose]

(okay so this:

made me embarrassingly emotional, so… uh.)

leaning into a microphone like a teenaged boy in a band with his friends this one’s for you @mayescapade

#something about like #getting older and growing and changing and like #do y’all think snakes are scared when they first shed a skin??? #bc i sure as fuck would be #but also it’s like #snakes do that because they’ve outgrown their old one #no matter how comfortable or safe or lovely their old skin was #the new one will fit better #even if they have no idea what’s going on at first #and i think that’s lovely!! #snakes man #this may come as Zero surprise but i had such a fascination with snakes as a kid #anyway #i don’t write poetry that often any more bc frankly it’s ah #bad #but jude happened to fucking nail me right in the inspiration lobe of the brain #so blame it all on them #jail for jude #all this to say: we are all in this together #y’all 🤝 me #🤝 having no idea what the hell is going to happen ever #all of us are just crawling forward #slithering through the garden of life #hand in unlovable hand #etc #quynh spiels