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“I want a whole city underground if it does not
love my people I want to bury the new condo developments instead of my people I want to bury the craft breweries and the barcades and the mixed-use helltowers instead of my people I want the statues melted down I want the mothers of murdered children to do it I want the heat to rise from a statue’s vanishing and last for ten summers I don’t want apologies anymore

“Forgive me for committing to suffering. I thought it might be the answer. That if I suffered loudly enough, for long enough, I would be owed something from somewhere holy. And isn’t it funny, also, to imagine that the only time God judges us is after we’ve died?”

“Sometimes the city reaches towards you to stay afloat.”

“If you know you know, and if you don’t then you’ve never had to answer a set questions that begin with a tone of curiosity and then gradually become more accusatory as they unfold.”