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(page 44) · Please don't let this be the end.
Because I can't pretend that this is alright.
I can't just give up without a fight.
Because I still can't stomach the thought of living without you.
So today's the day I change my luck
exchange the bad for a handful of new pennies
and spend them on that old fountain we always went to
Please don't let this be the end.
(page 44) · Rising (page 357) · untitled (page 153) · Rising (page 357) · Her father would not stop embracing her mother, they lay in sensual union, in bliss, Uranus and Gaia, Heaven and Earth, and Uranus refused to separate from his beloved wife, their children couldn't emerge into the light, the world could not be fully created. And so Cronus, cruel time, cut off the genitals of his father, Uranus, and threw them into the sea. Venus arose out of the foam. Beauty arose out of the foam and the Zephyr, the winds, blew her gently to shore where the Horae wait with a cloak of flowers to wrap her in... (page 7) · Her father would not stop embracing her mother, they lay in sensual union, in bliss, Uranus and Gaia, Heaven and Earth, and Uranus refused to separate from his beloved wife, their children couldn't emerge into the light, the world could not be fully created. And so Cronus, cruel time, cut off the genitals of his father, Uranus, and threw them into the sea. Venus arose out of the foam. Beauty arose out of the foam and the Zephyr, the winds, blew her gently to shore where the Horae wait with a cloak of flowers to wrap her in... (page 7) · untitled (page 356) · and so I will never hear you say it (page 107) · untitled (page 8) · and so I will never hear you say it (page 107) · untitled (page 112) · Please don't let this be the end.
Because I can't pretend that this is alright.
I can't just give up without a fight.
Because I still can't stomach the thought of living without you.
So today's the day I change my luck
exchange the bad for a handful of new pennies
and spend them on that old fountain we always went to
Please don't let this be the end.
(page 44) · untitled (page 330) · because you are somewhere
because you are standing
because you ask why (page 98) · because you are somewhere
because you are standing
because you ask why (page 98) · untitled (page 98) · untitled (page 107) · embrace (page 200) · untitled (page 200) ·
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