December 2011
22 posts
“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the...”
– Susan Sontag (via deadlittledear)
Excerpt from "Misery and Splendor"
They are trying to become one creature,
and something will not have it. They are tender
with each other, afraid
their brief, sharp cries will reconcile them to the moment
when they fall away again. So they rub against each other,
their mouths dry, then wet, then dry.
They feel themselves at the center of a powerful
and baffled will. They feel
they are an almost animal
washed up on the...
