All rooms in which you are absent
are endlessly and sadly silent.
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“Ghiacciaio,” Emilio Longoni, 1905
“Glacier.”
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“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory …”
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So here’s a cure for xenophobia.
All one needs to do is meet one of the immigrants who go COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR WAY to be kind to me, even if they are working through a goddam freezing apocalyptic ice storm.
Being really decent and cool has nothing to do with where you were born.
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“Go to the Limits of Your Longing,” Rainer Maria Rilke
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I’ll take “batting out of his league” for a thousand, Alex.
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Poster for “What Keeps You Alive” (2018)
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“The Last Gasps of Harvest Season, Sound Avenue, Wading River, New York,” Andre Carrotflower, 2022
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