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1 " At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this? "
― Ilya Kaminsky , Deaf Republic
2 " And when they bombed other people's houses, weprotestedbut not enough, we opposed them but notenough. I wasin my bed, around my bed Americawas falling: invisible house by invisble house by invisble house --I tooka a chair outside and watched the sun.In the sixth monthof a disastrous reignin the house of moneyin the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war. "
3 " You can fuckanyone—but with whom can you sitin water? "
4 " I do not hear gunshots,but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the skyas the avenue spins on its axis.How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright. "
5 " QuestionWhat is a child?A quiet between two bombardments. "
6 " The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paperclip. The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like the body of a boy. "
7 " Lord, such firefrom a match you never lit. "
8 " The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing. "
9 " At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this? "
10 " She scrubs me until I spitsoapy water.Pig, she smiles.A man should smell better than his country—such is the silenceof a woman who speaks against silence, knowingsilence moves us to speak.She throws my shoesand glasses in the air,I am of deaf peopleand I haveno country but a bathtub and an infant and a marriage bed!Soaping togetheris sacred to us.Washing each other’s shoulders.You can fuckanyone—but with whom can you sitin water? "
11 " And when they bombed other people's houses, weprotestedbut not enough, we opposed them but notenough. I wasin my bed, around my bed Americawas falling: invisible house by invisble house by invisble house --I took a a chair outside and watched the sun.In the sixth monthof a disastrous reign in the house of moneyin the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war. "
12 " What is silence? Something of the sky in us. "
13 " You step out of the shower and the entire nation calms—a drop of lemon-egg shampoo,you smell like bees,a brief kiss,I don’t know anything about you—except the spray of freckles on your shoulders!which makes me feel so thrillinglyalone.I stand on earth in my pajamas,penis sticking out—for yearsin your direction. "
14 " Observe this moment-how it convulses- The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paperclip.The body of the boy lies on the asphaltlike the body of a boy. "
15 " Deafness is suspended above blue tin roofsand copper eaves; deafnessfeeds on birches, light posts, hospital roofs, bells; deafness rests in our men's chests. "
16 " Watch, God— deaf have something to tell that not even they can hear. "
17 " TodayI have to screw on the expression of a person thought I am at most an animal and the animal I am spirals "
18 " Be courageous, we say, but no one is courageous, as a sound we do not hear lifts the birds off the water. "
19 " I am your boy drowning in this country, who doesn’t know the word for drowning and yells I am diving for the last time! "
20 " A man should smellbetter than his country "