CULTURE

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

Dealing with life when things seem hopeless

David Todd McCarty
Published in
7 min readMay 7, 2022

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Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash

“I’ve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
24/7 Sylvia Plath
Writing in blood on my walls
Cause the ink in my pen don’t work in my notepad
Don’t ask if I’m happy, you know that I’m not
But at best, I can say I’m not sad
Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
Hope is a

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David Todd McCarty
Age of Empathy

A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.