Status Updates From In the Blue House

“In Einstein’s physics, he knew, the future was out there waiting to be stepped into. The splash of a stone on water already ordained, the reflection of yourself in the water already contained in space-time. All times co-existed. His time with Frida was out there still. And memory could touch it.”

“The gravitational pull of the young woman bent time out of all known shape, and there were no longer days and weeks but only moments between one kiss and the next.”

“She knows what it is to slide up against the gravity of life, her hands full of promise, to slide back down again, with nothing. Her spine broken, her leg withered, in her hand a fistful of brushes. How all of life is contained in the sliding.”

Beautiful

“I was young, the young Lyova, and I loved the camaraderie and the acrid smell of vodka steaming out of tired pores.”

But I mastered
myself, stepping
on the throat
of my own song


- Mayakovsky