let across the world
a million boys
wake up laughing
& safe in their skin

- danez smith

To be the most beloved is great, but to love is greater

- Walt Whitman

So much happiness

is caged

in language,

ready

to burst out

anytime

and fade

- Rae Armantrout

We’ve been seated

in the afterlife.

Here

it’s a good night

when the impala sprints off,

a good night

when the pride rips

at the carcass.

- Rae Armantrout

Symbolism as the party face of paranoia.

- Rae Armantrout

You’ve been crossing

every

with only

- Rae Armantrout

Heaven, if it exists,

is when

there is no difference

between watching

and being watched.

- Rae Armantrout

A human uses part

of herself to think

of the rest

of herself as existing

“now.”

This is labor intensive.

- Rae Armantrout

I collected debris

to sell as crash art,

                    crush porn.

- Rae Armantrout

Then, then, then, then,

the storyteller stutters.

- Rae Armantrout

If being is eventual

- Rae Armantrout

still voguing

- rae armantrout

You play Arabic music, French music,

Madagascan music that I’ve never heard

I play UK rappers, minimal techno,

Alice Coltrane

- Kae Tempest

I’m learning to recognise

each pitch in the scale of your silence

- Kae Tempest