Distinctly beautiful.

Jared Singer, When Contemplating Super Powers (A Letter To Sarah)

Yeah…It’s exactly like that.

javiercarrete:

The last love letter from an entomologist

Dear Sarah

I’m sorry
we have to get a divorce
I know that seems like a really odd way to start a love letter but let me explain:
it’s not you
it’s definitely not me
it’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects do
I love you.. far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our species
I’m going to leave you now, while i still remember you fondly

I saw the way you looked at the waiter last night
I know you would never do anything, you never do but..
I saw the way you looked at the waiter last night

Did you know that when a female fly accepts the pheromones put off by a male fly, it re-writes her brain, destroys her receptors for pheromones, sensing the change, the male fly does the same. when two flies love each other they do it so hard, they can never love anything else ever again. if either one of them dies before procreation can happen both sets of genetic code are lost forever. now that… is dedication.

After i broke up with elizabeth we spent three days dividing everything we had bought together
like if i knew what pots were mine like if i knew which drapes were mine somehow the pain would go away

After two praying mantises mate, the nervous system of the male begins to shut down
while he still has control over his motor functions
he flops onto his back, offers his soft underbelly up to his lover like a gift
she then proceeds to lovingly, so lovingly dice him into tiny cubes
spooning every morsel into her mouth
she wastes nothing
even the exoskeleton is devoured
she does this so that once their children are born she has something to regurgitate to feed them
now that… is selflessness

I could never do that for you

So i have a new plan
I’m gonna leave you now
I’m gonna spend the rest of my life committing petty injustices
I hope you do the same
I will jay walk at every opportunity
I will steal things i could easily afford
I will be rude to strangers
I hope you do the same
I hope reincarnation is real
I hope our petty crimes are enough to cause us to be reborn as lesser creatures
I hope we are reborn as flies
so that we can love each other as hard as we were meant to.

—Jared Singer

handgrenade2:

Jared Singer. This poem is amazingamazingamazing.

This poem is the definition of beautiful.

loverofstories:

Jared Singer - 3 Lessons We Can Learn From War

When faced with a napalm bomb it is not the flame you need initially fear, it is the moment of combustion itself
.

Creating that much fire uses up so much oxygen
 it can literally suck your lungs dry.

When you reflexively breathe back in, 
the incoming air will be super heated it will sear the inside of your lungs
.

This will be the last breath you ever take
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Goodbyes are exactly like that
.

No matter how ready for them you think you are, they always catch you with your mouth open.

Leave you with a thousand things you still want to say.

You will never get the chance.