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September 24, 2014
5 reasons to date a girl with an eating disorder by A-Lovely-Anxiety is a blunt, sarcastic criticism of a decidedly unmanly viewpoint; deft imagery and unflinching honesty give this piece wings.
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Snow-girl
She is ice-cold, my snow-girl. Ice-cold, and snow-white, as beautiful as the frost-rimed spiderswebs lacing our tree. Ice-cold.
I wrapped her in my coat - see? - but still she holds the Winter in her heart, clings to the ice and the snow and the frost and the steel-surgical-blue of the sky, blue as her eyes (roll back her eyelids, see for yourself. As blue as betrayal, my snow-girl's eyes), and she will not warm herself, no, not for all my asking.
I wrapped her in my coat, and I wound my scarf around her neck three times (you see? Three. Three is lucky. Three threes is magic, but my scarf is not that long), but still she holds the ice and t
Literature
The Girl Who Was Afraid To Be
She speaks to me fondly
of passions and talents,
of guitars and stars,
with such breathless intensity
then stops short and
apologises
for speaking at all.
All because somewhere in her life,
someone she loved broke her heart
by ignoring
her beautiful words
and telling her to
shut up,
keep it down,
nobody cares.
People aren’t born sad.
We make them that way.
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fabled life
i.
she talks through her wrinkles,
'i have no desire for food', she says.
i take her plate to the kitchen
noticing how the beetroot shavings bled into the skin of the chicken and brown rice.
it was blood, skin, and bone,
and the rice was a million starlike cells floating between.
this reminds me of my anatomy textbook:
we've been learning what's beneath our skin,
we learned that all cells divide. some cells often don't stop dividing.
other cells divide and stop when they should...
but not my grandmother's.
starlike, they explode, they shatter, they consume
they divide.
ii.
i want to be mad at my grandmother's cells,
but what would that do?
i
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EDIT: I GOT A DD THANK YOU SO MUCH
i read a highly disturbing article today that inspired this. you can find it here: www.returnofkings.com/21313/5-…
i read a highly disturbing article today that inspired this. you can find it here: www.returnofkings.com/21313/5-…
the blog it's on, return of kings, is disgusting. i hate this world.
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Okay but this is sereously good writen.
But there is one question.
I don't know why people keep bitchin' about some females. There is no perfect female. right?
But there is one question.
I don't know why people keep bitchin' about some females. There is no perfect female. right?