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erin-barton
erin-barton
you are not a sad story; you are alive
habits like how i lock the bathroom door when i'm the only one home habits like how i run my tongue over cuts at the roof of my mouth like how i drop my front hand when i'm boxing like how i fold down pages of a book like how i turn off plug sockets when nothing's plugged in like how i bite my nails how i slouch how i run my fingers over old scars habits like how i reach out for you even though you're gone
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 9:59 AM UTC
habits
this anger inside me is unstable; i can feel it ready to combust i'm angry at the world i'm angry that the kindest person i know was bullied i'm angry that my friend's boyfriend is abusive i'm angry that when i tell people i dont like physical contact they immediately ask 'what will happen if i ever have sex?' i'm angry that a man in my town was stabbed to death because of his disability i'm angry that the most beautiful people are always insecure i'm angry that i can't help these people that these people can't help themselves but most of all i'm angry that all i want to do is explode to self destruct to combust with minimal damage
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 4:27 PM UTC
internal combustion
people always say how scars are beautiful because they show where you've been but really scars aren't pretty there's nothing pretty about a gaping wound on your wrist or torn up skin and i don't think the people who say scars are beautiful really understand what it means to be scarred
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM UTC
scars
I saw someone today and he looked like you I thought about saying that to him but I realised that he doesn’t care that he looks like you he doesn’t care that he looks like a boy who I once was close to who had to leave who is so far away and who I miss very much he doesn’t care that he looks like a boy who was very sad a lot who had a troubled mind who wrote poetry and I miss very much he doesn’t care that he looks like a boy who left me who never said goodbye who killed himself last june and who I miss very much
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Sep 28, 2013
Sep 28, 2013 at 5:12 PM UTC
i saw someone today and he looked like you
love is an illusion it’s just oxytocin; a chemical in the brain it’s not real but the magnocellular neurosecretory cells must be very good at making it and the posterior lobe must be very good at releasing it into my blood because it feels pretty **** real to me
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 5:14 PM UTC
oxytocin