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“A steep cemetery of a smile, / the last century—what a century!”
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"When I was a newborn baby, one of the first things she said to me was, 'We will have fun in this life—we will go shopping!'"
“My colleague Alassio is the only person left at the school where I teach who believes that the working class is the engine of history.”
“At the T-shirt table, Merrill greets me warmly, and we compare the T-shirt sizes, holding them up against one another. ‘Who knows when we’ll be able to buy another Elizabeth Bishop T-shirt,’ he quips. ‘Better buy it now!’”
”because also the god of medicine also / the god who killed every boy he loved / which may have only been one. one good one.”
“I found out only later that when my ma called Ensign Wang a lunatic, she’d meant it literally—he really was a mental patient.”
“Humor doesn’t cut it, or romance, or lyricism—no, no, no. Only terror works.”