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"even in our curated fury
the act of witness degrades us
we still live like the clouds
are ours alone to watch
with abandon"

"diaspora is negotiating the terms of betrayal"

"Nostalgia is bidirectional. Vantage point makes all the difference. America becomes a repository of unceasing fantasies, the sublimation of our curdled angst. It does not move. Not until we move over it, or back to it. Self-deception is an occupational hazard of returnee life."

"Choose your own moment of inception. Diaspora is durational loss. We keep moving and moving and moving. We never arrive."

"Choose your own moment of inception. Diaspora is durational loss. We keep moving and moving and moving. We never arrive."

reminds me of yana dombrowsky-m'baye's saint louis saint louis. also, i think this us gonna be five stars. i've never annotated a book this much

'If we believe in the same lies, that makes us countrymen.' First poem and I just know this is gonna make me ache.

Favourite so far is Reciprocity is A Two-Way Street. "You think of how casually our bodies are overruled by kin, by blood, by heartaches disguised as homelands. How you can count the lives you have lived for yourself on one hand. History is the hammer, and you are the nail."

i understand 65% but still i’m mesmerized by the use of language