Hour 36 of labor. I pull at god’s necktie dig a hole at the hospital floor.
CHELSIE DIANEOne tornado I lived through got the house.
More Chelsie Diane Quotes
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I 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.
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You’re rolling me in coffee hands I’m u-turn smoked rubber coming back- oh I’m spent, ask on the still.
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You say: you are mourning a man that could not love you. Full stop. Cover the last word. There’s the truth.
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I know this won’t always be a good deal for me I make it anyway.
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You can’t go to a kindergarten teacher after me.
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If your mother does not love you well or is no longer here to love you well, may you feel worthy enough to open to the thousand tiny ways the spirit of mother longs to love you today.
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When I reached for what I wanted, they said I left my needs behind. But if all birds need is on the ground why then do they fly?
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I call you to say we have no other choice but to date for a year go our separate ways and cheat on whoever we marry forever.
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I want you as a lemon the waiter brings on a tiny white plate. I want him to watch while I squeeze you into my mouth and swallow the rind.
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I want to be in an Jane Austen novel with you.
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God is a woman and like every woman has millions of years of men speaking for her.
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My brother has not spoken to me in years. Something to do with Donald Trump or Jesus Christ or our horrible stepfather.
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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.
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May my children never read this.
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I 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.
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I took the bobblehead of him off his refrigerator and kissed it.
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Beautiful creature its time to forgive yourself you were surviving.
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Oh the salt water I had to sweat to realize there was an ocean inside of me.
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Ancient shamans asked the sick one question only when did you stop singing?
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I will not believe It’s less holy to be human. I will not bow my head. I will not close my eyes to god.
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The uncharted territory of the western amazon is called the mother of god.
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The point is that I loved.
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A twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.
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It finally happened like I thought it might I run into you.
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I play with the nativity and tell mary she looks good in that color blue.
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One tornado I lived through got the house.
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