The day my children move out is years I can count on two hands I have them half this time years I count on one.
CHELSIE DIANEThe day my children move out is years I can count on two hands I have them half this time years I count on one.
CHELSIE DIANEYou’re rolling me in coffee hands I’m u-turn smoked rubber coming back- oh I’m spent, ask on the still.
CHELSIE DIANEEverything great I’ve done I did not think to do so.
CHELSIE DIANEDon’t get too used to being alone.
CHELSIE DIANEOh the salt water I had to sweat to realize there was an ocean inside of me.
CHELSIE DIANEMy brother has not spoken to me in years. Something to do with Donald Trump or Jesus Christ or our horrible stepfather.
CHELSIE DIANEI took the bobblehead of him off his refrigerator and kissed it.
CHELSIE DIANEYou say: you are mourning a man that could not love you. Full stop. Cover the last word. There’s the truth.
CHELSIE DIANEI found my old diary tonight. A brokenness I had forgotten pen pressured so deep it punctured page. I ran my fingers over my words and there inside ridges black I found a little girl desperate for someone to save her, desperate for the very woman I have become.
CHELSIE DIANEWhen I was six I fell on a broken window. Once I realized no one was coming I stopped screaming and pulled the shard from my middle. This is life for some of us. This has been life for me.
CHELSIE DIANEOne tornado I lived through got the house.
CHELSIE DIANEI meet you and know suddenly and horribly there is no difference between sex and war that I must die to get that close to touching god.
CHELSIE DIANEThis morning I tell the kindest man on earth after two dates, you are good and you are not my man. My man is not as good as you.
CHELSIE DIANEGod is a woman and like every woman has millions of years of men speaking for her.
CHELSIE DIANEMy entire life I’ve waited for a man to teach the world how to treat me and if he’d step in and convince them all.
CHELSIE DIANEThe argentinian kisses me on a beach in tulum.
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