Essay

all i know are sad songs

I saw Garden State for the first and only time when I was seventeen with a boy I thought I loved who kissed me too rough too heavy too urgent like he had something to prove and it wasn’t about me but I was there. I didn’t think it was a good movie but I cried anyway and I cried again…

These Are Not Sonnets. Or, “honey babe”

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You, Judy Blume, Marriage Equality.
Truly,
the great comic triumph of our time.
Three days of summer,
Three days as if kicked straight from the stars
a big fat fandango, cherry lips crack ribs
stupid good stupid pretty stupid sweet…

The Tinder Date Playlist: 7 Songs For Girls Who Go Bump In The Night A Little Too Hard

What I Talk About When I Talk About Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber is very, very dear to me. I am writing this piece in advance of the piece that I am going to write about his new album because, as I was telling a friend of mine the other day, if I wrote about his album without first separately…

Diary of an Emotional Masochist, Chapter One: Dignity and Shame

I am an emotional masochist. I’m the kind of person, who, when I’m already going through a bout of nostalgic melancholy, will decide to read old journal entries or look through old photographs. The kind of person who…

Take me anywhere, I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care, or, Meditations on Feeding the Meanness Whatever It Takes To Fall Asleep

I wrote a poem about waves once and of course it was only ever about feelings. I know nothing of the sea…

this is a torch song

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I Want Everyone to Know: One Direction’s “No Control”

Con·trol (kənˈtrōl/): the power to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of events; the restriction of an activity, tendency or phenomenon; the ability to restrain one’s own emotions or actions.