Setayesh

“I'm glad that the rock is heavy
and that it feels all right in my heart
like an eye in a pot of humus.
Let's write long letters on grand themes,
fish sandwiches, egg sandwiches and cheese;
or travelling in Mexico, Italy and Australia.
I eat a lot so I won't get drunk and then
I drink a lot so I'll feel excited
and then I've gone away I don't know where
or with whom and can't remember whom from
except that I'm back with my paper bag
and next time my face won't come with me.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“your veins are using up the redness of the world.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“Boredom always contains a critical element, because it expresses the idea that either a given situation or existence as a whole is deeply unsatisfying.”
― Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom

“Jessica has a forehead scar from the deep end of a pool. I ask Jessica what drowning feels like and she says not everything feels like something else.”
― Angie Sijun Lou