In The Thick of It

May 15, 2025

∙ Paid

2017

in the thick of the pain (the smashing of hands into walls, the vomiting from its intensity, the quiet reckoning with what is utterly unfixable)…

i have to remember what makes me whole.

i don’t have a choice when it comes to this life.

i’ve been doing this a long time.

sometimes i wonder if i’d be happier without all of it—

the twice-monthly ulcers, the …

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