Little White Lies - 03.2020 - 04.2020

I bet the patriarchy stole your straw

Which I think is what PYW is about

in part. Reclaiming something that

is always said to be ‘taken’

I guess if you don’t laugh you’ll cry

Something that concerns me every day

I feel this

That’s v wise of him

Controlling the narrative

And I think I’ve always seen writing as my

way of processing things that have happened

to me, taking ownership of them, turning

them into things that bring me joy

(It did thanks, though he arrived two

streets over so I had to go and find him)

And they forgot to put a straw in for my

milkshake so I had to drink it out of the cup :-(

A really wrong-feeling experience

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I would love that for you

A way to speak of certain things in a way so

personally creative that you find a joy in it

Did your deliveroo come?

This, right now, what you’ve said over the last

3 messages, this is the BIG TALK

Also, a wonderful element of sad stories is that

dark humour is always a great addition to them

Our stories are sad, but maybe the stories that

come afterwards will be lighter

& maybe we just have to accept that the stories
we are telling right now are sad stories, but there
is a power and joy in the fact of telling them

Hello dark humour, my old friend

Or else buckle under the weight

of your own earnestness

for real

Thank u sweetheart

Do u support this for me, Hannah Woodhead?

And then be an irreverent grande

dame with a coterie of lovers

I want to also somehow develop a Lauren

Bacall-esque husky tone

I can’t wait to be august enough to let my

caustic humour out of the bag. I feel I can’t quite

carry it off yet so suppress it in most scenarios

From right outta the shake

And volunteer errand boys

I ALEJO

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