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We work. My work is my life. I pray for work. I hate my work. I need my work. I pull/push meat for the buzzing saws. I halve the body. The saw eats gladly. Two halves a body. I have a body. I halve a body. I do the same. I do the same. The
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“There was total silence now on my mother's end, no communication. Still, I carried her inside me: her voice, her feelings, her fears, her ideas of food, bodies, the world, women and men. She had long ago implanted herself in me at the cellular level, spread into my organs – my brain, my heart – until what was her and what was mine were indistinguishable.”
― Milk Fed
― Milk Fed
“I imagined googling, How to make a golem fall in love with you. Maybe that’s all that prayer was anyway—a cosmic google. In that case, any iPhone could be a synagogue. I wished I could FaceTime with Rabbi Judah.”
― Milk Fed
― Milk Fed
“What about holding hands in a movie theater? Can girls hold hands in a movie theater?”
― Milk Fed
― Milk Fed
“This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning.”
― Milk Fed
― Milk Fed
“I had no idea how to be a mom, let alone my own mother. But what about daughterhood? Was it possible that I could be my own daughter? This seemed more doable. I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it. If I could not be my own mother—or at least not the kind of mother worth having—then maybe I could be my own daughter.”
― Milk Fed
― Milk Fed
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