“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“Yes, and the body has memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn’t be an ambition.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
Contemporary American Poetry
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