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
The terrified shapes died and there was no
longer an outside or an inside. No one was listening
to that place because it did not exist.

- Alejandra Pizarnik
para ouvir bem baixinho
 
Antes
Alejandra Pizarnik

bosque musical

los pájaros dibujaban en mis ojos
pequeñas jaulas
llévame entre las dulces sustancias
que mueren cada día en tu memoria

- alejandra pizarnik
tú me desatas los ojos
y por favor
que me hables
siempre

- alejandra pizarnik
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