Archive - things i'm collecting along the way

letters to various addressees

during the nationwide curfew and internet shutdown of the last few days, all my private grievances, resentments, and indignation felt so small. i…

Jul 23 •

June 2024

thank you joan didion and playboi carti

painting by manal asad (bestie)

Jun 20 •

May 2024

lost something? you haven’t

reading a friend's sad post and writing this purely out of spite

May 27 •

goodbye to all that

maybe the rose colored glasses are the friends we made along the way.

May 16 •

Against Therapization

“The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have.”

May 11 •

April 2024

bats in my attic

I sit at my desk after one Xanax, three cups of karak, two cups of green tea, and three cigarettes, but my head still continues to hurt. All the…

Apr 12 •

February 2024

the pleasure of being known

The following passage is an excerpt from The White Album by Joan Didion.

Feb 19 •

December 2023

how to be lighter (it was always easy)

I may have spent a great deal of time in my head. Now I look around and everything is colored in the paint of my imagination. This is the third sentence…

Dec 1, 2023 •

October 2023

i have actually said everything there was left for me to say

I spend a lot of time poring over my plans for growing up. Not just in the sense of aging, but I am more so in a daily, visceral race, against my own…

Oct 8, 2023 •

August 2023

so much left to say but i guess here are 2 or 3 things i need to remember

what’s an appropriate and good enough way to speak of summer? a happy summer — because i now have new things that i really like having. a sad summer …

Aug 25, 2023 •

July 2023

letter to my father

In 1919, Franz Kafka took a two week sojourn from the insurance company where he worked to pen a letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in an attempt to…

Jul 10, 2023 •

June 2023

everyone should know that i sprained my ankle

Maybe if I didn’t write everything with the weight of consecrating mankind with some brand-new revelation, I wouldn’t have been staring at this blank…

Jun 21, 2023 •

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