Memorable Stuff I Read This Week

As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.”

— Amanda Petrusich / “Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life” / The New Yorker

The 
White
Daisy
Breastfed
The 
Lunar 
Light.

— Malcolm de Chazal / “Selected Poems”

Daily you wake up to the killing of your
people, their tongue accented in your
mother’s milk.

Daily you wake up to the killing of my people.
Do you? Censored, the news. Shadow banned.
McCarthyed.

— Fady Joudah / “[…]” / […]: Poems

But now that I’ve lived this long, and find myself with enough T-shirts to write a whole book about them, frankly it seems kind of scary. People talk about “continuity as key, and they’re spot on. I get the feeling like that’s all I’ve relied on in my life. 

— Haruki Murakami / Murakami T: T-Shirts I Love

inside my mother
i make a little fist
& then i punch her

— Anselm Hollo / “To Be Born Again”

But most nights, when I’m not sleeping over a plate boundary, or checking my symptoms for signs of a deadly virus, the thing that keeps me awake is climate change.

— Rebecca Priestly / End Times

To carry the weight in everything we do, 
that there is nothing left to normalize 
and we have given up any right to peace 
and contentment every time we pay the tax 
that allows for our lives . . .

— Raquel Gutiérrez / “Solip Cystic”

What I’m Listening To: 

I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like

It’s got a basket, a bell that rings

And things to make it look good

I’d give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it

— Pink Floyd / “Bike”