Archive - things i'm collecting along the way

letters to various addressees

positive diss tracks or whatever the opposite of hateful writing is called

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.

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.

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.

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?

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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