There’s a part where Megan says she wants to cook well to show her boyfriend’s family that she loves their son. And I suppose it’s a sweet enough concept but it just made me sad. I’m not sure why.
recalling friends who'd been married for thirty years & now divorced; vividly recalling their early, happy years together & sad now to hear them speaking bitterly of each other, totally denying what they'd once felt.
we are just too vulnerable to loss, the irrevocable fact of loss, & devise stratagems to deny it.
Day laborer organizers in California are lining up at Home Depot to buy a single 17-cent scraper, return it, and repeat the process in an effort to slow sales and protest the store’s cooperation with ICE operations.
@NorthKanyeYE He ended the cycle. mad when she gone, mad when she home, then sad when she gone, mad when she home, sad when she gone. But now that’s she gone; he floating in a silver lining.
“your mama know you ugly/you your daddy’s son” is a great bar because it subverts expectations: instead of using the mother as a vessel for degradation it insults the father, decoupling beauty standards from femininity and using the masculine to disarm itself