“We are so rawly made, / So carried into the harsh and almost-dark.” - laurie sheck
(another rediscovered b&w from the basement)
just found a to-do list tucked inside a library book (not mine):
“install bathroom fixtures, margo’s collar, install towel bar in door, make lunches (+dinners), pay dentist bill, save receipt, iron shirts, deconstruct crate, buy (order) cat food, state taxes, put felt pads on furniture, buy 1 1/4’ wood screws, homework - admin rdg…”
love it.
(used to pass this on sunday night drives home, after visiting my grandparents. meant the ride was almost over.)
I may not be able to convince you of it, but I think the problematic of wantedness isn’t just tolerable; it’s beautiful. It’s brave. It’s complicated and fleeting and elaborate and human. -janet halley
THE FUTURE…
They want a sign that there’s a place for them in the world, a place where they can undertake limited experiments in self-knowledge and self-reconstruction without risking material or moral disaster. - roberto mangabeira unger
i am walking
out in the rain
and i am listening to the low moan
of the dial tone again.
remember and endure the hour,
there was never one like it, all are like it,
people and angels and cherubim,
black-winged, bright-eyed,
none was yours-
was ever yours.
-gottfried benn
I keep thinking, “When does it end? Where’s the day I’ll have started forgetting?” But I just go on. - merrily we roll along, “not a day goes by”
