The closing song of  “The Strip.” Fallout, season 2, episode 8, directed by Frederick E.O. Toye, written by Karey Dornetto, Amazon Prime Video, 4 Feb. 2026.

ROBERT

You're still living in a world of fiction. A world that isn't real.

COOPER

You're wrong about that.

Fallout, S02E08

GAG

Steal, S01E06

Nieves González, Madre Nuestra, 2024

The future isn’t what it used to be.

- Tracy K. Smith

The dilemma

is one of expression.

My expression,

my cough, speaks for me.

What I want

to express is very little.

I must express it

over and over again.

- Jane Huffman

After Vuong

A. Melo

If I'm lit now What used to be a fag A small 

heat Has grown into a fire

I burn The forest burns The ocean catches Look

at the silence ablaze What 

a sight Finally too bright—

What if it wasn’t the crash that made me, but the debris?

- Ocean Vuong

I’m trying to be real but it costs too much.

- Ocean Vuong

I used to be a fag now I’m lit. Ha.

- Ocean Vuong

Say amen. Say amend.

- Ocean Vuong

restless surface watching the minutes

- joanne kyger

O que esperar do futuro aos cinquenta e quatro?

- Charles Wright

Não sou inocente. Você é?

A realidade está aqui,

desdobrada. 

- Chantal Maillard