I feel like our economy has been driven by mass production for so long that we’ve forgotten just how intensely time-consuming making things by hand is. Mass production was revolutionary for a reason. It DRASTICALLY reduced the cost of things. And I’m all for making things more affordable! But the problem arises when people decide they want something handmade for the cost of something mass produced. People get an idea in their mind “this is how much x item should cost” when in actuality that’s how much a machine made version of that thing costs. Then they hear the price of something made entirely by hand and think “that person is ripping me off.” If you want something handmade, you have to compensate the person making it fairly.
what could you give me? nothing. nothing, like she got for her mercies, her tongue never slipping but dancing round red berries she refused and for what? so a god fresh-drunk can explain death to the knowing? what are you going to do, teach me mourning from inside a wolf’s gut? no wonder you stink like you do, how drunk have you gotten off the bitter storm-surge of my pledge rolling down cold cheeks, lips repeating into my wounds: oh god i smell like you and they know.
it doesn’t matter. i am tired of explaining the movement of our spiral instinct, but not the story of it, who left the words smoking on the mantle whether drowned girls reek like hanged boys why we woke up again. i am paul of tarsus crawling under st. jeanne’s skin knife splitting skin outwards, the tree was gold and i am nothing. the blind increaser of a fool’s ignition– what are you going to offer beyond what you are?
nothing. nothing but a wolf’s storm-pale eye with courtesy enough to invent sorrow in it deft fingers for a necklace tracing apologies between the sinew i’m sorry you know the language the taste of never-always-home-
to know the nothing of your whisper, and more reasons to scream. i know what i want and of course
Does anyone else remember the story about that poor lesbian who came out to her mother and her mother cried and said “it’s all that damn Keira Knightley’s fault, I knew I shouldn’t have let you watch pride and prejudice as a child” because I’m really feeling that now
screaming into the void since '89 