(no subject)

If I were meaner,
shallower,
more selfish,
I think life
would be easier.
I'm not,
and it isn't.
I can't purchase
better this way.

I don't want to be
or inhabit
a place of transgression.
Where I am
is a real place;
you should visit,
or emigrate.

I want 'here'
to be better.
Can I accept it
without the contrast
to everywhere else
crushing me?

(no subject)

If I were prone to reductive sloganeering, I think much of my struggle in the past months could be phrased as, "Is feminism the struggle against sexism, or the struggle to liberate women (only*)?"





*With the implicit 'only' meant to imply also 'as opposed to all the other types of people who suffer under sexism, definitely not limited to "men" or "women"' This is an example of why I'm not that good at sloganeering.

(no subject)

so consider this a coffee morning at the church of shoegazin'. The vicar says: "no song starts until at least four minutes in."

Serena Maneesh, Drain Cosmetics

Yow. I mean, yow. If this is shoegazin', I need me some new shoes.