gospel for insomniacs

poetry, thoughts & memoirs for sleepless nights

By alex

· Launched 7 months ago

You can let me go tomorrow

i won’t ask if you want to stay, but god, i wish you wanted to anyway

Jun 18•alex

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Parasites of a Relationship

but you—you wanted to dig inside my chest, rip out my beating heart, and hold it in your hands just to feel it pulse

Jun 3•alex

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I'm a lover at your mercy

we both know how this ends and we come back anyway

Apr 3•alex

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Anatomy of a body

a biological love letter for my first 100 subscribers

May 18•alex

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Sad girls still get loved

even like this, someone still knows how to hold me

Apr 19•alex

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Recent posts

Cherry red everything

two hours away from the coast when the summer heat stopped being weather and started being a catalyst

May 14•alex

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If you let me be your lover

i know you could ruin me, and I’m still hoping you do.

May 1•alex

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Let me find you in any lifetime

i have known you for longer than this life allows, and somehow, i always find you—no matter who we are or where we begin

Apr 12•alex

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Nostalgic about summer

every version of me that summer touched

Mar 23•alex

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I want to be so many things

to all the multidisciplinary minds

Mar 13•alex

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Blue Lullaby

a small set of poems about melancholy, night thoughts, and the quiet blue parts of the heart. four little lullabies, soft and sad—written in blue.

Mar 6•alex

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