I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.
One soccer practice was canceled when a million ladybugs descended on the field at once. Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
My mother waited in the car at the curb until the bus arrived, convinced that danger, like potatoes, breeds int he dark.
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end of time, a hundred light years from then, someone else, some distant future creature, might be looking back at a preserved image of me and my father at that very moment in my bedroom.”
-Karen Thompson Walker (The Age of Miracles)
Visible through the white cotton of her tank top, those two empty cups held at least the possibility of breasts, if not the real things, and I guess just the expectation, just the idea, the mere dream of a female body was enough to lure the boys to her side.
But I don’t want to fit in. That’s when no one notices you. You leave a longer impression when you’re brave enough to stand out.
Poetry is almost as bad as math—a second language that only a select few can appreciate.
But I guess it neveriswhat you worry over that comes to pass in the end.The real catastrophes are always different– unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.
-Karen Thompson Walker (The Age of Miracles)
The curse on Sonia Ocampo’s life came without warning before she was even born, cleverly disguised as good luck.
When I look at the veil that covers the end of my life, I feel overwhelmed by the certainty that I won’t use all the time as completely as I could if I knew the date of my death. I want to give up.
From that perspective, suicide is a rational plan.
-Sarah Manguso (The Guardians)
