“And I know I’m not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.”

“Lord, let me write,leave me autistic and typinguntil my windows bust into a thousand silver dovesand I know the poem is done.”

“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.”

“I should have told You before talking in terms of Foreverthat any given day wears me out and works me sour,that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.”

“I'm gonna roll outta here one day, I just might not get to drive”

“I have realized that the moondid not have to be full for us to love it.That we are not tragediesstranded here beneath it.”

“I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.”