'Boy don't call me angel.' - Arianna Grande, 2019
Miley Cyrus in 'Don't call me angel'. Photo Credit: Miley Cyrus.
DAY 127. How did I not know that the word trash has so many different connotations?
DAY 128. How did I not know that I would name the wings ‘my trash angel wings’?
DAY 129. How did I not know that by listening to ‘Don’t call me angel’ by Arianna Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana del Rey, I therefore immediately have trashy tastes?
DAY 130. How did I not know that I don’t want this to be the end?
DAY 131. How did I not know that David Attenborough’s ‘Extinction: The Facts’ would bring me to tears?
DAY 132. How did I not know how angry I am that women and girls will be disproportionately impacted by climate change and the ecological crisis?
DAY 133. How did I not know how angry I am that we are letting our world die?
DAY 134. How did I not know that stress turns to hysteria, turns to numbness?
DAY 135. How did I not know that these questions would record my process?
DAY 136. How did I now know that these questions would record my thoughts?
DAY 137. How did I not know that dyslexia doesn’t make me stupid?
DAY 138. How did I not know that over 800 angels would want to join in the conversation?
DAY 139. How did I not know that this is more than just a MA project?
DAY 140. How did I not know that there would be no build up to the end?
DAY 141. How did I not know that after 141 days I would stop… just like that?
Work Referenced:
BBC. 'Extinction: The Facts'. BBC iPlayer, 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mn4n/extinction-the-facts, (Accessed: 2020).
Grande, Arianna et al. 'Don't call me angel'. Charlie's Angels, Republic, 2019.
Oxford English Dictionary. 'Trash'. Lexico, N.D., https://www.lexico.com/definition/trash, (Accessed: 2020)
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