Intelligence or emotion?     language.

- John Wieners

I missed the chance of my life

     when I gasped, when I got up and

        rushed out the room

          away from you.

- John Wieners

It would be easy to forgive

- Leonora Speyer

I envy you, living with no God imposed on the disorder

- Brionne Janae

enough of thus and prophecy

and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and 'tis

of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god

not forgetting 

- Ada Limón

What should we do with the soot

seeping into the porous pornography of my giving up?

- Aaron Coleman

I look for a refrain

a place to hold meaning

a ritual to carry wreckage

- Robert Balun

I can’t think of anything else Bakhtin would say

Let us for once mention a thing without unpacking it

- Doug Paul Case

thank you for hearing me

thank you for listening

- sinéad o'connor & raye

You know, every old person knows what it is to be young, but no young person can know what it is to be old. Thank you for listening.

- Patient Mr. Cohen to Dr. Mohan & Dr. Melissa in The Pitt, S02E12

The Pitt, S02E12 

I keep up the niceties of civilized society I’ve been taught.

To debate and face with reason.

- Shanekia McIntosh

Today, not only must I manage my own panic, I must somehow help

people with theirs.

- Shanekia McIntosh

I looked in the mirror until I was finally seeing past myself

- Shanekia McIntosh