revolution is an act of

24 and it’s a blindingly bright frigid december new england morning, but you’re so warm in the apartment and bed and arms of a girl who loves numbers and peanut m+ms and buffy and

 

(not you)

 

and whose thighs


vibrate

 

when she comes

 

this is something real, even if it’s not: the way she stroked down your index finger as you laughed over too-sweet cocktails and the buzz of finishing another week still alive, talk of terrifying bosses and the continued existence of the state of michigan and how the world is coming to an end and the best it’s ever been, and you stumble back to her place clutching each other against the wind and make out against her door and pull out the futon bed and, soon, bury your head between her legs and listen to her gasp

 

this is not a grand proclamation, a slate article on Being In Your Twenties At Ten AM In The New Millennium, this is only two breaths on one pillow with four legs twined together, this is the residual feeling of her mouth between your breasts and her hand behind your neck

 

this is not love

 

it feels like revolution all the same

 

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running_with_rabbits's picture

<3

every time  read this  love it more, it really is just well penned

so well penned


Much Love

Ashley

life_used_to_be_lifelike's picture

This is amazing. It is one of

This is amazing. It is one of the best I have read in a long time on this site. It is also something I can relate to. I hope you post more in the coming days. Incredible job. 


"It is a terrible thing to be so open. It is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world" -- Sylvia Plath.