Word Nerd

I wear what you did to me like gills, a new way to breathe. I jump into the river for days. I forget I have lungs at all.

Maybe memory is all the home/you get.

Imagination is having/to live in a dead person’s future. Grief is/wearing a dead person’s dress forever.

Those mascara streaks are your war paint;/wear them proudly.

"You can get lost in sorrow when it knocks your life/off course with no detour signs to redirect you./Most importantly/you can be found in sorrow by/becoming a different version of yourself,/here, on the other side of tragedy.

…I’m beginning to think I may never/not be undecided, about all sorts of things...

“Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney

Lesson number one: 'Not my problem' is not a philosophy. It’s a mental illness. Right up there with pessimism. Other people’s problems are our problems. If your neighbor is laid off, you may feel as if you’ve dodged the bullet, but you haven’t. The bullet hit you as well. You just don’t feel the pain yet.