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“Do not allow your fire to go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never
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“As Eleanor Roosevelt wrote long ago, the work of renewing a world based on extending dignity to every being on the planet begins in small places, close to home.”
― Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
― Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
“Sometimes understanding comes to you not through thought, but through this throbbing of the heart, this tenderness in the chest that hurts.”
― The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
― The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
“I wish I could feel your warmth, as easily
as I feel his. But I don't. I feel fear. I hear fear telling me I'm
a body, that's all. & the boy I love is a body. & bodies die. No
other world, no return to this world in another form. (Annihilation.)
It isn't that I didn't think these were the facts before. It's now,
he's here. I have to try harder. Believe the facts could be
at least a little wrong. Please, something. Some
magic, real as this ripe life with him.”
―
as I feel his. But I don't. I feel fear. I hear fear telling me I'm
a body, that's all. & the boy I love is a body. & bodies die. No
other world, no return to this world in another form. (Annihilation.)
It isn't that I didn't think these were the facts before. It's now,
he's here. I have to try harder. Believe the facts could be
at least a little wrong. Please, something. Some
magic, real as this ripe life with him.”
―
“Maybe the centipede in the cellar
knows with its many disgusting legs
why I am sad. No one else does.”
― When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
knows with its many disgusting legs
why I am sad. No one else does.”
― When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
“Because I was reading today
in the science section of the paper that passionate love
lasts only a year, maybe two, if you're lucky.
Because I want to be extra lucky. Because the article
apologized specifically to poets - sorry, you hopeless
saps - as though we automatically believe in love more
than anyone else (more than kindergarten teachers, long-haired
carpenters) & have been pushing this Non-Truth
on everyone. Because who knows what will happen,
but I want to, baby, want to believe it's always possible
to love bigger & madder, even after two, three, four years,
four decades. I want a love as dirty as a snowball fight
in the sludge, under grimy yellow lights. I want this winter
inside my lungs. Inside my brain & dream. I want to eat
the unplowed street & fog that's been erasing
evergreens. I want to eat the fog only to discover
it's some giant's lost silver blanket. I want to
find the giant & return to him his treasure.
I want the journey to be long. & strange, like a map
drawn in snow by our shadows shivering. I want to shiver
against you, into you.”
―
in the science section of the paper that passionate love
lasts only a year, maybe two, if you're lucky.
Because I want to be extra lucky. Because the article
apologized specifically to poets - sorry, you hopeless
saps - as though we automatically believe in love more
than anyone else (more than kindergarten teachers, long-haired
carpenters) & have been pushing this Non-Truth
on everyone. Because who knows what will happen,
but I want to, baby, want to believe it's always possible
to love bigger & madder, even after two, three, four years,
four decades. I want a love as dirty as a snowball fight
in the sludge, under grimy yellow lights. I want this winter
inside my lungs. Inside my brain & dream. I want to eat
the unplowed street & fog that's been erasing
evergreens. I want to eat the fog only to discover
it's some giant's lost silver blanket. I want to
find the giant & return to him his treasure.
I want the journey to be long. & strange, like a map
drawn in snow by our shadows shivering. I want to shiver
against you, into you.”
―
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