from the sandy liang zine

Ono No Komachi, tr. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Oratani, from The Ink Dark Moon Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
Raycaptaura
if you are in your late 20’s or early 30’s you are finally beginning to experience a true sense of separation and alienation from youth culture and to natural identify more with other adults as your peers, and that’s a normal part of being an adult and moving into that stage of your life, and you MUST recognize it as such and resist the ancient Joker’s Trick that is the urge to jump to the conclusion that nothing has changed about you and it is instead the children that have gotten weirder.