East London.

oooohhhh ok. the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself

a love letter to myself

ELLEN BASS

Mary Oliver, from “To Begin With, the Sweet Grass”, Devotions

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

Goatsong, Leila Chatti

Natalie Díaz, from “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem

Focusing on what’s rooted in reality has reduced so much of my overthinking time. If a friend is already out of my life, there’s no point dissecting our interactions from back when we were friends. If I already broke up w someone, there’s no point thinking about the could-have-beens because they will never happen. If I’m into someone but it wouldn’t work for whatever reason, then it just doesn’t. Something just is or just isn’t. There’s a lesson to take from everything but I also don’t want to use that as a catch-all excuse of getting into the weeds for something when the weeds have already been cut off and it doesn’t even matter anymore

Kaveh Akbar

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”

— Frank Tyger