Eden-Bot!

I want them to ski across the poem’s surface, waving at the author on the shore. But all they want to do is tie it to a chair & torture a confession out of it.

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just close your eyes
soon we’ll be home
fall asleep to the radio

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I woke up today, and you’re on the other side
our time will never come again

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

you do it to yourself, you do
and that’s what really hurts—
is that you do it to yourself, just you
you and no one else

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

To you, I am a ghost. We’re all ghosts for you. We must be nothing.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

Do you see us getting scraped up off the pavement?

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend you hate.

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HOUGHJHJHHHH OUGHHHHH ECHHHEHCHHHH

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

Well, I’ve been there, sitting in that same chair, whispering that same prayer half a million times. It’s a lie, though, buried in disciples. One page of the Bible isn’t worth a life.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

Every morning the same big
and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out
‘You will be alone always and then you will die.’

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

Adulthood can’t be outsourced. You—and I, and everyone else—have to do it willingly.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

I’ll do the startling thing
I’ll have the knife in my teeth
I’ll be the star
You can be the horrified one

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

I’d like Moira to end with something daring and spectacular, some outrage, something that would befit her. But as far as I know that didn’t happen. I don’t know how she ended, or even if she did, because I never saw her again.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

I think I met you in a store
in 1944, I probably wrote you letters
while you went off to the war

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

SARDICK: What does that matter to you?
DOCTOR: Look how it mattered to you.
SARDICK: I cried all night, and I learned life’s most invaluable lesson.
DOCTOR: Which is?
SARDICK: Nobody comes.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

So pretty. I loved the look in your eyes when I hurt you.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

I made myself a promise: even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

He saw that in me and he nodded. Effortlessly, like trusting me was the easiest thing there was. I wish I had that much faith in me. Feels like you could fix the whole damn galaxy with someone looking at you that way.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

My mother hates her body;
we share the same outline.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

[Eden-Bot! @gardenofedenbot]

There’s never going to be a room someplace where there’s a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, ‘You know what would be great? We should call Fiona.’ That’ll never happen. There’s nothing interesting about me.