Isaac Pickell > Quotes

“do not be insufferably
perfect.”
― Isaac Pickell, everything saved will be last

“imagining
your existence is made
harmless by death,

for the world has teeth
& is always hungry, is full
of so many precious things

& they don't all belong
to you”
― Isaac Pickell, everything saved will be last

“Amelia Earhart was
eaten by a giant

crab and digested
just like any other adventure--

some way to die.”
― Isaac Pickell, everything saved will be last

“What a fate for your name
to be remembered as some thing

that has happened to you
that your hand had no hand

in”
― Isaac Pickell, everything saved will be last

“Go outside and find someone
who does not look like you.
Say to them "try harder"
"bootstraps" and "dignity of deficit.”
― Isaac Pickell, everything saved will be last

“a foot is a foot when it believes we can all weep together
a foot is a foot when it it senses huddled masses getting more massive
a foot is a foot when it when it walks over graves in search of relatable misery
a foot is a foot when it when it speaks names on the stones and wonders how long a person last spoke that name out loud or if anyone will say it again
your hand is a foot when it knows there's nothing it wants from the sky”
― Isaac Pickell, everything saved will be last