Sam Sax Quotes

there's a theory that says you don't exist unless someone calls and you respond

you either love the world or you live in it

i only want the world to end when i'm done with it

what does it mean to be descendant of something monstrous? to still love the monster?

my hands love to make war of love.

i carry much nostalgia for the times i don’t remember

there must be something else worth praising besides pleasure & destruction

& he watches each muscle volt into place. the surgeon became the surgeon after years of opening books & making sense of their contents

i’d lash myself to any new mast

you have to wonder how a boy or the shape of a boy wound up here in this unstable field.

i know everyone i love who’s dead didn’t actually become the poem i wrote about them.

anything can be a drug if you love it.

love at first sight is only possible if the government hasn't first taken your eyes

BESTIARY " charybdis: when i suck in / i make deadly / whirlpools / ask anyone who’s managed / to climb out / alive dragon: patrol or pillage / he exhales and a whole village / burns / iron scaled sentry / guardian of the ivory / tower i wrap my legs around / everyone thinks / he’s a brute / but for me / he lifts his breast plate / for me he welcome the quiver / and the arrow’s teeth. golem: take his hair in your hands / his dead / skin cells / his discarded undergarments / take them / and make of them a new boy this effigy / his likeness and nothing / like him / breathe life into its clenched carapace // my god / i think i saw it / move medusa: when i saw / my face / reflected in terror / in his eyes / i turned to stone / or a pillar of salt watching my village burn / he was the village burning / maybe that’s a different story / maybe in the end only the snakes wept siren: he cries / and i / lashed to the mast of a ship / steer my body toward the sound / sheets bound around wrists and ankles tears make grief / a lighthouse you wear / when i hear him a huge wood wheel turns in my stomach / and i break / open on / his jagged coast werewolf: there are many words for transformation / metamorphosis metaphor / medication / go to sleep / beside the man you love wake up next to a dog / maybe the moon brought it out of him hound hungry for blood / maybe its your fault / or maybe it was there inside him / howling all along

I Think I’m In Love – Kat Dahlia That Part – Lauren Spencer Smith Always Been You – Jessie Murph Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars Rewrite The Stars – Maddi Jane Night Drive – Henry Lose You To Love Me – Selena Gomez Happier – Marshmellow, Bastille Drivers License – Olivia Rodrigo When We Were Young - Adele Hate U Love U – Olivia O’Brien If The World Was Ending – JP Saxe, Julia All Too Well (10 min) Taylor Swift Say Something – A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera You Broke Me First – Tate McRae Demons – Boyce Avenue, Jennel Garcia Figure You Out – Voila Boyfriend – Dove Cameron Too Good At Goodbyes – Sam Smith Mercy – Sawn Mendes Perfect – Ed Sheeran Can I Be Him – James Arthur Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

of course i know i’m going to die. until then i’m attempting only to stave off the flies. i’m trading what’s left of my youth for a glass tube to cast a quiet spell inside.

his laugh a memory so liquid i’ll hear it when anyone opens a window to scare the birds

if you look close at the process of fermentation you’ll see tiny animals destroying the living body until it’s transformed into something more volatile

can you believe there’s freedom in being so out of control

please tell me how am i supposed to go on knowing you are [ ]