This life
will make
you howl
in pain.

The challenge:
to make it
a beautiful howl.


She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.

  Charles Bukowski, An Almost Made Up Poem   

[I’ve grown, but whatever monster might be in me, it was always mine, my choice, my responsibility, my evil if you will.]

It’s what I am, and if you want excuses, come and take them.


  Mark Lawrence, from The Prince of Thorns   
Some women are
lost in the fire.
Some women are
built from it.

  Michelle K., Some.  

Keep your hands away.

I’m nothing but broken glass,

built to make you bleed.


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