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You and I, Susanna Kaysen,

We learned how to die.

We learned to do it proper.

 

We became desensitized

 by an extra Tylenol here and there,

a too hot shower.

 

We asked ourselves 

at the movies.

We asked ourselves 

while we prepared dinner.

 

We had rational conversations

of pros and cons.

 

When we woke up

one day we knew.

In the shower

(or a supermarket for you),

we died. 

 

We died meticulously,

Without any fear.

 

Oh but it’s then 

that it hurts it hurts.

 We dont do it

as well as our Sylvia.

 

Maybe in her early days.

-we made it hurt like hell after all!

 

We tell them 

“Really, I feel better now,

I’m quite alright”

to mimic her tulip twenties.

 

But no doubt-

we’ll be back for our thirties.

Yes, indeed,

The third time to die is the charm.

Re-reblogging because I love 

"There are some questions in life, the very speaking of which are their own undoing. Am I fired? Is this a date? Are you breaking up with me? Yes. No. Yes."

David Rakoff in this weekend’s episode of This American Life, The Invisible Made Visible (via nprfreshair)

"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say ‘Hi.’ They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word."

Augusten Burroughs (via sufjanism)

Grammar Myth: It’s Wrong to Answer “I’m Good” to the Question “How Are You”?

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