there's always that person you're used to seeing used up. busy doing everything that hurts them; everything that cuts them down. why do people let themselves take the fall for the faults of others?

why do people choose to live a life they wouldn't choose? 

well, we do it every day. you and I and him, too. 

one of the most valuable things we learn from others is how to hurt each other. 

is it because when we're hurting we know we're alive?

Junk - anything that is regarded as useless, unwanted, trash. a lot of the time junk is broken to the point of no return. other times, junk is the external genitals or something horribly addictive. junk is hard to save.

Born into a world of lying and cheating and stealing, Sloan never thought twice about looking out for the best interest of a child. children aren't right for a world of lying and cheating and stealing. children don't understand what it means for a body to be found in a ditch. would you volunteer to explain something like that, to a child?

A decade long battle of fighting for top spot between a rock and a hard place. a person can only lean so far before toppling over; before throwing themselves out with the friday morning trash. the difference between giving up in this world is the difference between the ditch and as far away as one can get without really being gone.

He was as bright as the afternoon sun when he walked into a room. Monday mornings were a bit different because the previous two days' and nights' events were anything but bright. he wasn't dark in an offensive or morbid way because his darkness didn't result from a lack of light. his darkness came, rather, from an absence of hopefulness. in a world where you have to be your biggest cheerleader, he was cheering for everybody but himself.