When I sleep I am hungry.

I dream I am eating light.

- James Tate

Sailor’s Song 

Jen Bartman

I am rowing my teacup 

in space. 

Still, sadness 

makes me tired. 

There’s nothing to do 

out here but wait 

until another frightening carnation 

blooms 

in the field

of frightening carnations. 

Inside the dark estrangement

sheltering me from people not

unlike me

I can only hope I do what matters

make my mother proud

- Kevin Simmonds

My Wifi can take me out of here

anytime    so can my credit score

- Kevin Simmonds

The lessons are getting harder.

- Cintia Santana

One must be drenched in words.

Life is too scattered for me to savor it any more.

- Bill Yarrow

N’ayons pas peur d’etre heureux,

c’est juste un bon moment a passer

- Romain Gary

Playing Army

Donovan McAbee

I died better than anybody.

My older brother said so.

He shot me from around

the corner of the house,

Pow-Pow-Pow, in quick succession.

As my body arched,

floating back towards the earth,

my rifle rolling up through the air,

all their mouths stood agape

to witness such fluid grace.

I was so damn good

every kid on the block

wanted to shoot me.

Cape Fear, S01E04

Gente, é óbvio que eu não estou falando de quem precisa seriamente [de medicação psiquiátrica], porque tem gente que precisa. Então apaga isso da mente.

- Viviane Mosé, Sem Censura (04/06/2026)

Tá bem, vou apagar.

Shame is the most powerful force in the universe. It can make a man deny his own eyes, his own heart, his own skin.

- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)

Gay life is a series of reinventions. We leave our families of origin to find our families of choice, and in doing so, we have to invent the very language of our relationships.

- Edmund White, States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980)

We were the first generation to define ourselves by our sexuality and the first to be destroyed by it.

- Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony (1997)

If you are a monster, you are at least unique; if you are like everyone else, you are a cliché.

- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)

I envy people who can remember the order in which things happened in their lives. I can't. For me the past is a solid wall of portraits, all looking at me simultaneously.

- Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story (1982)