Quote #2474 from Hate to Feel by Alice In Chains
Fri, 2010-02-26 10:44 — burgundybabe
So climb walls,
Thin my blood now
And I crawl, back to bed nowWhat the hell, gotta rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, gotta get
Pin cushion medicine
Used to be curious
Now the shit's sustenance
Quote #2471 from Come Bite the Apple by Mother Love Bone
Fri, 2010-02-26 10:23 — burgundybabe
So come bite the apple
I'm run down
Like Sodom to Gomorrah, all dead now
So please stop to laugh, and pity me
My soul means well, but I'm sorry
My skin it is weathered and I'm nervous, yes I am
My future was in my hands till I washed it all away
Washed it all away
Quote #2467 from Cuttings by Dorothy Barresi
Thu, 2010-02-04 09:32 — GabrielleVI
Let me start again, here,
where a woman ends.
The wrists were involved.
Also the leg-tops, the delicate skin
of the inner arms,
anywhere she could drag a sharpnessthat factors in and out
what she could not change in her life
which was pain.The steel ratio of pain
to power
being control.VII
Now ask yourself, as I did,
why hurt yourself more?
Quote #2466 from Cuttings by Dorothy Barresi
Thu, 2010-02-04 09:28 — GabriellePostscript.
Sometimes she would cut herself, then go next door
to the neighbor's house --
a drywall finisher out of work
because this was the recession --
and present her arms to him
shyly, like a girl
in her first prom gown of ruched sateen,
awkward in bows
but with terribly alert eyes.
Quote #2465 from Cuttings by Dorothy Barresi
Thu, 2010-02-04 09:25 — GabrielleAsk the girl with the dirt in her mouth.
Ask the girl who is all poem
now, all shapes between the shapes
she carved into her flesh
like a tattoo artist falling in love.with what remains un-inked, the border crossings
and blue edges
and the razor bleeding
in her hand.
Quote #2429 from The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Tue, 2009-12-29 09:07 — GabrielleAlmost involuntarily (it feels involuntary, to her) she steps or stumbles forward, and the stone pulls her in. For a moment, still, it seems like nothing; it seems like another failure; just chill water she can easily swim back out of; but then the current wraps iteself around her and takes her with such sudden, muscular force it feels as if a strong man has risen from the bottom, grabbed her legs and held them to his chest. It feels personal.
Quote #2424 from Thin Skin by Emma Forrest
Fri, 2009-12-25 20:25 — GabrielleDiscomfort is worse than a wound. At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it.
Quote #2423 from Thin Skin by Emma Forrest
Fri, 2009-12-25 20:23 — GabrielleMy thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.
Quote #2397 from No Excuses by Alice In Chains
Tue, 2009-12-01 17:26 — AnonymousIt's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny, well you're drowning in it tooEveryday it's something hits me all so cold
Find me sitting by myself, no excuses, then I know
Quote #2396 from Nearly Lost You by The Screaming Trees
Tue, 2009-12-01 17:16 — AnonymousDid you hear the distant lie
Calling me back to my sin
Like the one you knew before
Calling me back once again
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