Status Updates From Leaving the Atocha Station

“It was true that when I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.”

“what painting would you most like to stand in front of hour after hour, day after day? It wasn’t the same question as what is your favorite painting.”

“I ordered a drink in Spanish and the waiter clarified my order in English.” LMAO__this is a common experience for me as a non-native speaker in Italy.

Ugh beetje klaar met ironische mannen literatuur, maar ik moet door

“I experienced the shape of pain but no pain”

“because the true poem remains beyond you, inscribed on the far side of the mirror: “You have it but you don’t have it. / You miss it, it misses you. / You miss each other.”

“You have a poetic license.”