Worthlessness

D'arcy Wretzky performing with Smashing Pumpkins at Roseland Ballroom on 15th November, 1991 when they appeared on the same bill as Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pearl Jam.

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; Lady Lazarus.

“this is the first day of my last days i built it up now i take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far no need for me to stay the last thing left i just threw it away i put my faith in god and my trust in you now there’s nothing more fucked up i could do wish there was something real wish there was something true wish there was something real in this world full of you”

Detail: A Vanitas Still Life with a Skull, a Book and Roses, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1630

The perfect drug.

Paolo Sebastian “Persephone”

And I control you

They had the most perfect shade of pink 🌺

Clarice Lispector, from The Passion According to G.H. (published in 1964)

Art credit: Raku Inoue 

Closure