The Brightest Light

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Manipulate You

The Man Who’s Only Purpose Was to Inspire My Art

What if,
every encounter we ever had
was for my art?

What if,
your only purpose on earth—the only fame you would receive—
was to be my muse, inspiring me to mania?

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CRAZY.

I hope you think I’m crazy.
I hope you think I’m crazy.
I hope you think I’m crazy.

Revenge

It took three years and seven nights
To find words to destroy him—
Finally, revenge would be mine.

I opened my mouth at just the right time
Pulled out my tongue
With the script in my mind.

And just as the words
were lined up to get dropped
My tongue caught stage-fright
and instead my heart spoke

You should date a girl who reads.

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.