Psst
Charles Simic

Don’t go psst
With a finger
Over your lips,
You seated behind me at the movies,
Or in church
Where I bow my head to pray,
Or in this dive
Where I’m the sole customer,
Shushing me
Out of a dark corner
As I hum to myself
With eyes closed
Thinking of God-knows-what.
Wellness check
Andrea Gibson

In any moment,
on any given day,
I can measure
my wellness
by this question:
Is my attention on loving,
or is my attention on
who isn’t loving me?
I understand being wooed by the finish line
of sadness. Infinity still sends me nudes
every day. 

- Andrea Gibson
The psychology manuals say no one really wants
to die. They want relief. They believe they will never
find it in this world. That belief could be right.
Or wrong.

One would have to stay to find out.
Friend, if you stay, at least we will be
together, and I have an extra straw.

- Andrea Gibson
a neutralidade ajuda o opressor, nunca a vítima
- elie wiesel
No such thing as the innocent bystander
Andrea Gibson

Silence rides shotgun
wherever hate goes.
I know most people try hard
to do good and find out too late
they should have tried softer.

- Andrea Gibson
my queer feels now like celebration:
something worth living for

- jaye simpson
i hope my sacrifice kept the gods      above appeased,
you get to go on   &   love each other
 
- jaye simpson
I returned with a new way to think about you.
On another page Whitman described what it feels like to live.

- Alex Dimitrov
And of course I’m still here
waiting for you to look at me.

- Alex Dimitrov
There must be ways to delay the past
from so frequently arriving. 

- Alex Dimitrov
Identity is made
of select experiences.

- Rae Armantrout
Provocação
AR

Quem faz a seleção?
O próprio sujeito, a memória,
a cultura e a linguagem.

E ainda sobra, ao mistério, 
uma pequena margem nessa 
história.
To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?

- Oscar Wilde
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