My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in here. - Andrea Gibson

What if I don't want the monster
to stop being a monster?

What if that's the only anchor I have left?
What if my sanity depends on being able to point
at a bad thing and say, That is the bad thing.

Haven't I already lost enough time
losing track of who the enemy is?
I've spent half of my life not knowing the difference

between killing myself and fighting back.

You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see.

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, “So does God. That’s why you can see the Grand Canyon from the moon.