And nothing will be yours except a movement
toward a where that is whereless.

- Alejandra Pizarnik
si no entiendo,
si vuelvo sin entender,
habré sabido qué cosa es
no entender.

- alejandra pizarnik
nadie es del color
del deseo más profundo.

- alejandra pizarnik
Palabra por palabra
tuve que aprender
las imágeries
del último otro lado.

- Alejandra Pizarnik
 I know that I no longer exist, but what I
don’t know is the thing that lives on in my place.

- Alejandra Pizarnik
Father Poseidon, they blinded me. Vengeance, father! 
Vengeance for me. Poseidon! Vengeance for me!

EURYLOCHUS
What was the Siren's song?

ODYSSEUS
All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you go to scratch. But you find it's under the skin, you can't reach. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have. And what you most can't have is what you already had. And lost.

PENELOPE
Why would you want to marry someone who loves someone else?

ANTINOUS
Your loyalty to Odysseus is one of your most pious qualities.

Used to displacement, one makes a fetish of abandon.
Pardon me my being, so evasive. Truth is every border is a trap.

- Chekwube Danladi
Since claiming absence as a desperate purity, keeping it casual comes true.
- Chekwube Danladi
I existed triply: I occupied space. I moved toward the other … and the
evanescent other, hostile but not opaque, transparent, not there, disappeared.

- Franz Fanon
  Lord,
              when you send the rain
              think about it, please,
              a little?
      Do
              not get carried away
              by the sound of falling water,
              the marvelous light
              on the falling water.
          I
              am beneath that water.
              It falls with great force
              and the light
Blinds
              me to the light.

- James Baldwin
My name, my pronoun — a grey void.
- Alejandra Pizarnik 
and what’s this you’re going to do
i’m going to hide behind language
and why is that
i’m afraid

- alejandra pizarnik
(Don’t let me die
without seeing you again.)

- Alejandra Pizarnik
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