Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul.
Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?
This druid feeling I get in the woods’s so thrilling it makes me want to crap, so I dug a hole with a flat stone inside a clump of mitten-leafed shrubs. I pulled down my cacks and squatted. It’s ace s...
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
How lazily xperts dismiss what they fail to understand!
La risa es una blasfemia anárquica. Los tiranos hacen bien en temerla.
The minutes jog up the down escalator.
Hell hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon.
Today's the day I either change my life or I don't.
My voice was jus' a duck fart in a hurrycane.
I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay, babbybies o' blissweed cradled me that night, then the drummin' started up, see...
The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, , because of all the manuscripts (inedible green tomatoes) submitted to Cavendish-Redux, my new stable of champions. I suppose it was...
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine.
Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It’s not just that I can’t hold Aoife again, it’s everything: It’s grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted,...
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