~Razor Sharp~

I don't know what it really feels like 

inside when you have problems.

I just love to be the center of attention.

Graduations grow finer inside the taboo 

some cut from pain, others for show. 

Hating on cutters-or at least these cutter performers,

tries to draw a boundary between authentic and fabricated pain,

as if we weren't all some complicated mix of wounds we 

can't help, as if choice itself weren't always some blend of character 

and agency. How much do we choose to 

feel anything?  The answer, I think, is

nothing satisfying we do, and we don't. 

But hating on cutters insists desperately

upon  our capacity for choice. 

People want to believe in self-improvement

it's an American ethos, like putting oneself 

up by one's bootstraps and here we have 

the equivalent of a effective downward

mobility: cutting as a failure to feel better,

as deliberately going on a kind of sympathetic welfare taking 

some shortcut to the street cred of pain 

without actually feeling it. 

Stop hating on cutters yields only one result,

things you wish people would stop 

hating on. Seriously the least they need is 

some idiotic troll calling them emo for 

cuttingcutting-burning etc. Emo: being code 

for affect as performance: the sad show. People 

say cutters are just doing it for the attention,

But why does just apply?  A cry for attention 

is positioned as the ultimate crime, clutching 

or trivial as if attention were inherently a selfish 

thing to want. But isn't wanting attention 

one of the most fundamental traits of being human 

snd isn't it granting it one of the most 

important gifts we can ever give? 

?Broken187Soul ?

Copyright 08-22-15