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1 " Safe BladeIn my sickness I was whole titNow I must suck etherWhich is the stars and where I am meantI never knew I'd miss the fleshAnd I do miss the flesh or the fake heatThat glinted off the sword I grippedWhich kept me safe from me and my disease of moreThough sword and heat were also the diseaseThe sword I slung at man's plasmic heavenApplauded by the hands of dead but not their spiritsSpirits are you with me now although I cannot seeSickly still in my lust for ashes "
― Melissa Broder , Last Sext
2 " Though our minds try to tell a different story "
3 " I thought there were twoThe good voiceAnd my voiceI thought the good voice was buriedAnd I would have to digUnder my voiceWhich is glittery and coldTo get there "
4 " And the women have not stopped cryingThroughout history "
5 " The stars don't give a shit "
6 " Watch me go up in the sky I doNow I'm falling into the ocean "
7 " I see other people's trashdreamsMy fantasies are so pure "
8 " You gave me only drops of what I want "
9 " The room is black and in my earsFaeries keep calling meI can be deaf and they're still here "
10 " I lap your milk of illness up It nurtures my dying "
11 " I wanted to haulI wanted to harbor your wreckStop not blowing the conch "
12 " The heart so ready before it existed "
13 " Every body we have ever been "
14 " You don't have to be anything ever againYou can just be the airHow does it feel with your body gone "
15 " What did I look like when I was real?I vow to never go there againTo the land of the silent faeriesThey were singing but I couldn't hearI'm unreal now but still can't hearThe faeries judge me for my fantasiesThey should have saved me from the real "
16 " Narcissus weeping but the stars like yeah "
17 " Though the quiet has already eaten meBecause the quiet loves meBut does the lover love meAnd why must the quiet be so quiet "
18 " And I saw the dogs were always kindThey had only been disguisedOr maybe they were kind and horrible both "
19 " And O I want to be fixedBut I am already fixedWhy don't I feel it "
20 " Universe universe tell me my secretThe wind in your thoughts and the perfume in your heart "