~ No matter how you sugarcoat it, there is never a nice way of calling someone fat. I.E. “You would have been beautiful in the...

~ To any girl who should come to love him after me: this is my cautionary tale. listening to the same song on repeat until you hate it /...

~ When I say I wish I was beautiful, I mean I wish I could sculpt myself into the same loveliness borne in the eyes of Marble Goddesses....

~ The weight of Mount Olympus lies sepulchred on the bridge of my nose. This is where the goddesses live. They tell me I am beautiful. I...

~ Drink away the merciless cruelties of your reality. Happy shots all around (for a remarkably sad girl). “But you can’t kill your...

~ Most days, she feels so lost, that you would think there was once a time when she belonged to someone, that she had accidentally been...

~ Sometimes, I imagine I'm some mourning starlet who sings Lana Del Rey at the club every Saturday night. A honeyed halo of stage light...

~ There's always been something so Hollywood about her-- and I don't mean 21st Century bullshit. I'm talkin' Judy Garland, you're the...

~ ⚠Trigger Warning; the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders⚠ ~ how do u know if...

~ "No more tears now; I will think about revenge." -- Mary, Queen of Scots ~ Someone once told me that I have the eyes of a Queen, that...

~ Inspired by Judy Blume,  inside Jokes with Liz and the poetry of Alissa Grams (https://alissagrams.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/an-open-let...

~ Among the wreckage of her soul, lie shards of ribcage (splintered like the stern of a ship that has weathered many a beastly storm) and...

~ From the moment the tale of her ruin made itself known, mankind has coveted proof of her existence. Many a curious hand has stalked...

~ I always look my most beautiful when I cry; the bags under my eyes burn as poignantly as waning crescents, lips plump as they quiver...

~ No boy will ever want to fuck me if I forget to put on makeup in the mornings lips red as Eve's forbidden fruit succulent enough to...

The green light has frozen over. See that haunted house, how its windows flicker desperately in their attempt at survival, how every...

~ Heart skips like a warped record, trembles over scarred vinyl until "I love you" tastes incomplete: (I) love ...

~ I imagine you throbbing inside of me like a heaving serpent, your venom seductively lethal. {detach} I say your name; scream your name;...

~ By my standards, he is a ten. I'm sure you're laughing right now-- "ooohhhh, she think's he's a ten"-- but that's not what I mean. What...

~ I take a pill each morning-- "to keep the madness away," declared the doctor, her tone clinically nonchalant as she handed to me a...