jimmy cooper

“Rather than being lovers in order to breathe, we are queer in order to escape asphyxia.”
― Guy Hocquenghem, The Screwball Asses

“In loving him, I saw a cigarette between the fingers of a hand, smoke blowing backwards into the room and sputtering planes diving low through the clouds. In loving him, I saw men encouraging each other to lay down their arms. In loving him, I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

“Why do we write? A chorus erupts.
Because we cannot simply live.”
― Patti Smith, Devotion