“death still lurked out there, just waiting for me.”

“The scars are just markers that something else has happened.”

“I don’t trust people–singers or otherwise–who don’t admit their failures”

“my eyes
are so thin the copper shines
behind them”

“I think of a woman standing knee-deep in cotton, surrounded…”

“A balance of order and chaos.”

“All I tasted was salt.”

“Salvation from agonized human society”

“After we’d fucked for a year, toyed with romance, talked us to death”

“Everything I had ever been was a mouth”

“I woke wanting
to be dismantled. I woke aching
for paper limbs”

“I realized that I was constantly bashing my body”

“Break free of my darker side”

“Some music is out to get you.”

“The number four goes a little bit beyond what can be rationalized.”

“I was heavily pregnant and he socked me in the arm”

“Breaking down guilt, shame, and suppressed desire.”

“what it would really be like to literally be the only Black person”

“Alive is a strange way to be.”

We were up to nothing but in search of everything.