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Emma Bolden
@emmabo
The Tiger and the Cage is out now! Editor @Screen_Door_R. Visit me at emmabolden.com
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    Twitter has meant so much to me through the years and brought so many amazing people into my life, but I just don’t think I can stay here. Find me at the 🔵☁️ place: emmabolden
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    i just need people to understand that before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer and YOU HAD TO TALK TO THEIR PARENTS until your friend came to the phone
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    me, recommending a book: this book DESTROYED ME. this book RIPPED MY VERY BEING APART. i read the end sobbing in a fetal position on the floor and i didn't move for three hours. please read it HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT
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    in completely normal news, a doctor just told me i'm not in pain due to a herniated disc compressing my sciatic nerve and spinal bone spurs but ... because i'm emotionally damaged because i had a hysterectomy before i had children and never got married.
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    we don’t talk about the fact that c3po essentially wears a crop top nearly enough as we should
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    i just found out a group of fireflies is called a sparkle and i have never felt such joy
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    Replying to @emmabo
    like they would ask you about SCHOOL and your FAMILY and sometimes hit you with a trick question that accidentally got your friend in trouble IT WAS A WHOLE DEAL PEOPLE
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    i wish every pet owner would release an album of songs they make up for their pets
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    i believe in one hard and fast universal writing rule: em dashes are amazing and you should use them whenever possible
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    Replying to @emmabo
    OH and also because i don't understand my own feelings about being childless, unmarried, and uterusless because i'm not introspective enough to have examined my feelings, which is news to ... my entire body of work.
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    You know shit is bad when the muppets have to lead us through breathing exercises
    Stop scrolling, take a deep breath, and use the next few minutes to escape to a place where the air is sweet. 💛💚
    00:00
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    WAKE UP if you don't think poetry is Extreme Intensity, THIS IS THE SIZE OF AN ALBATROSS, Coleridge was MAX REAL and POETRY IS NOT F*CKING AROUND
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    Replying to @emmabo
    this blew up so let me tell you i had a crush on a friend’s brother and one time he answered the phone and i didn’t know what to do so i pretended it was a wrong number and then got in bed and cried
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    it has taken me three hours to realize that the Bad Art Friend Discourse, the Kidney Discourse, and the Group Chat Discourse are in fact the same Discourse