Daphne Gottlieb
Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.Collection: Doe
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It MyselfCollection: Writing
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.Collection: Beautiful
I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.Collection: Girl
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.Collection: Writing
come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do itCollection: Hurt
The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.Collection: Pregnancy
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?Collection: Writing
I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.Collection: Thinking
There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.Collection: Wanted
All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.Collection: Beer
you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.Collection: Relationship