my ladycrush professor likes found poetry. i just want her to LOVE ME

"when" it "no longer 'defines who you are' it's time"
 "under 'occupation' i wrote BEING ME"

i had known
i had known i had known

it did not exist

i can breathe, i can laugh, i can be, alone

i am free i am free
i am free

"anything might happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation"
a candle heating up in a dark room
"the history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself"

it's kind of a long story since i haven't been talking about it

black takes the pawn

why keep doing it, if it hurts

we let it hurt til we're exhausted, right

i keep staging these conversations in my head

i do not have an original story

this is not news

"i mean this is hazy territory especially now"

i'm just out there today and really appreciate someone grounded

act iii. do tragedies come in five acts?

still awkward - i kept asking stupid questions
on the one hand i'm totally nostalgic

one day it won't matter at all

still working on it though

"if we have the habit of freedom and the courage
to write exactly what we think"

"the dead poet who was shakespeare's sister will put on the body
which she has so often laid down"

i think i can do anything
everything is possible

"maybe now is my time."