A atomização e a narcisização crescente da sociedade nos ensurdece perante a voz do outro. Levam igualmente à perda da empatia. Hoje, cada um presta homenagem ao culto de si mesmo. Cada um performa e se produz. Não é a personalização algorítmica da rede, mas o desaparecimento do outro, a incapacidade de ouvir atentamente, que é responsável pela crise da democracia.

- Byung-Chul Han, Infocracia: digitalização e a crise da democracia (2022)

As coisas não são todas tão compreensíveis e dizíveis quanto geralmente nos fazem crer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

- Emily Dickinson

Hedgehog

Paul Muldoon

The snail moves like a

Hovercraft, held up by a

Rubber cushion of itself,

Sharing its secret

With the hedgehog. The hedgehog

Shares its secret with no one.

We say, Hedgehog, come out

Of yourself and we will love you.

We mean no harm. We want

Only to listen to what

You have to say. We want

Your answers to our questions.

The hedgehog gives nothing

Away, keeping itself to itself.

We wonder what a hedgehog

Has to hide, why it so distrusts.

We forget the god

Under this crown of thorns.

We forget that never again

Will a god trust in the world.

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)