essays from the big sad

“The big sad was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place
mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

Some writing from college, a very sad time.

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i run away
doesn’t it?
moments of winter
i wish my dreams didn’t exist
plane thoughts
when did i start to dislike my birthdays?
i’m not ready for ihop to change
summer tastes like an iced coffee
washed with a passing desire
not enough
i don’t get it
i’m sorry, but i won’t make it to your party
so/still alone
fall nights
i thrive on vulnerability
woe is it over the souls i shall never meet
the romantic ideal of the wordless walk
those who never asked why
metaphysical idealism and the captivation of social media
another birthday, another question
things that aren’t the same
becoming a piece of used tape
one conversation is all it takes
the night tube
finding my childhood in kingdom hearts
the econometric origins of emotional indifference
the impermanence of tattoos
on those mellow mornings i sit down and weep
one step forwards, two steps back
my patio
wandering alone in dublin
a semester between two costas
ask me no questions
watermelon for dinner
this world is not for me
snow and shit
the roses
two rocks in a river
lust for life
what it seemed
the ontological origins of vulnerability
an object in motion
mid-july
compartmentalization
the third clarity
the inevitable fall from attraction
convinced / unconvinced
what happened to the l-word
the sweltering
the image of unlovability
echoes / time / overflow
philosophy of friendship
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two gates
commencement canceled
quarantine thoughts
thunderstorms and cold intimacies
forgetting dreams
definitive feeling
the yearbook effect
memories, context, and emotional pain
life and the game of hearts
a different world
the function of study spaces in time
happy memories as causation and possession
college graduation
the invincible summer
stochastic processes
metaclarity
the world beyond destiny’s island

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