Bokonon

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

—Hermann Hesse (via uni-tea)

(Source: journalofanobody, via transcending-nihilism)

It never got weird enough for me.

—Hunter S. Thompson (via lunasherah)

(Source: corrumpo, via lunasherah)

When you look into my eyes,
do you see all the demons inside?
Because they’re all in there,
looking back at you.
Wondering if,
you can see them too.

When you tell me,
that you love me.
Do you love
all the demons too?
because they’re all in there,
looking back at you.
Wondering if,
you’ll love them too.

When we embrace,
do you embrace the demons too?
Because they’re all in there,
hoping to embrace you.

But do not be afraid,
they mean no harm.
They just need recognition,
no need for an alarm.
Cause they’re all in there,
looking back at you.
Hoping to recognize,
some demons in you.

And when they do,
find some demons in you.
It’ll be the best chance,
at love and romance.
Cause they’re all in there,
looking back at me,
looking back at you.
Hoping to find,
some love and romance too.

Because if you love me,
you’ll have to love them too.
And if I love you,
I’ll have to love your demons too.
Because our most common ground,
is the demons we keep around.
They show us where we’ve been,
and show us where we can go.

Cause they’re all in there,
looking back at you,
looking back at me.
Wondering if,
we’ll set them free.
And escape our shackles,
to be the best.
The absolute best
that we can be.

—

Papa Stevesie 

poem I wrote tonight, hope you enjoy!

(via sataniclovemachine)

Laurie Penny’s Saudade

There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to run and being told not so fast

The best minds of my generation consumed by craving, furious half naked starving-

Who ripped tights and dripping make up smoked alone in bedsits bare mattresses waiting for transfiguration.

Who ran half dressed out of department stores yelling that we didn’t want to be good and beautiful

Who glowing high and hopeful were the last to leave the gig our skin crackling with lust and sweat and pure music

Who wrote poetry on each other’s arms and cared more about fucking than being fuckable

Who worked until our backs stiffened and our limbs sang with the memory of misbehaviour that was what it was to be a woman

Who dared to dance until dawn and were drugged and raped by men in clean T-shirts and woke up scared and sore to be told it was our fault

Who swallowed bosses’ patronizing side-eyes stole away from violent broken boys in the middle of the night and vowed never again to try to fix the world one man at a time

Who slammed down the tray of drinks and tore off our aprons and aching smiles and went scowling out into the streets looking for change

Who stripped in dark rooms for strangers’ anodyne dollars because we wanted education and were told we were traitors

Who sat faces upturned to the glow of the network searching searching for strangers who would call us pretty

Who bared our breasts to hidden cameras and fought and fought and fought to be human

Who waited in grim hallways with synth-pop crackling over the speaker system for the doctor to call us clutching fistfuls of pamphlets calling us sluts whores murderers

Who crossed continents alone with knapsacks full of books bare limbs clear-eyed vision running running from the homes that held our mothers down

Who filled notebooks with gibberish philosophy and scraps of stories and cameras to prove we were there keeping our novels and the name of out children close to our hearts

Who were told all our lives that we were too loud too tisky too fat too ugly too scruffy too selfish too much too and refused to take up less space refused to be still refused refused refused to be tame

Who would never be still. Who would never shut up. Who were punished for it and spat and snarled and they shook the bars of our cages until they snapped and they called us wild and crazy and we laughed with mouths open hearts open hands open and would never not ever be tame.

Sara, I’m with you in hospital, in the narroe rooms where you have put off your veil to count your ribs through your T-shirt, short hair and secrets and quiet defiance crying together that we don’t know how to be perfect-

Lara, I’m with you in mandatory art therapy, where we draw pictures of weeping cocks and are told we are not making progress-

Lila, I’m with you in a north London bathdroom, watchhing unreal maggots crawl in the cuts in your arms and listening to your girlfriend drunk and raging through the wall-

Andy, I’m with you in Bethnal Green where you love ambitious angry women with heart brain pen fingers tongue and you have a line from Nietzche tattooed over your cunt-

Adele, I’m with you in the student occupation, with your lipstick and cloche hat and teenage lisp drawling that there’s not enough fucking in this revolution and we must take action-

Kay, I’m with you on the night bus, half drunk and high dragging bright-eyed boys home to our bed, where we watch them worn out sleeping and whisper that we will never be married-

Katie, I’m with you in Zuccotti Park, where a broken heart is less important than a broken laptop is less important than a broken future and we watch the cops beating kids bloody on the pavement for daring to ask for more-

Tara, I’m with you in Islington where you have thrown all your pretty dresses out of the window and flushed your medication so you can write and write-

Alex, I’m with you and a bottle of Scotch at two in the morning when you tell me that no man will make us live for ever and we must seduce the city the country the world-

We are always hungry.

There are more of us than you think.

—Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)

(via realitea-check)

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

—Alan Watts (via samsaranmusing)

(via transcending-nihilism)

Life was too short to be with someone who wasn’t quite right, someone who made you think more than they made you feel.

—Anaïs Escobar  (via artistsuffer)

(Source: hellanne, via transcending-nihilism)

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

—Jim Morrison (via literaryschizophrenic)

(via transcending-nihilism)