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101 " The most beautiful part of your body is wherever your mother’s shadow falls. "
― Ocean Vuong , Night Sky with Exit Wounds
102 " I kneel beside him to see how farI might sink. Do you know who I am,Ba? But the answer never comes. "
103 " As if dancing could stopthe heartof his murderer from beatingbetween his ribs. "
104 " I swear, you will wake— & mistake these walls for skin. "
105 " They will see him clearestwhen the city burns. "
106 " the way snow touches bare skin—& is, suddenly, snow no longer. "
107 " The city is so white it is ready for ink. "
108 " Show me how ruin makes a homeout of hip bones. "
109 " there are things / I can say only in the dark "
110 " I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living "
111 " But only a mother can walkwith the weightof a second beating heart. "
112 " When they ask youwhere you're fromtell them your name "
113 " Always another hour to kill – only to begsome god to give it back. "
114 " the boy &his loneliness the boy who finds youbeautiful "
115 " you've comethis far to be no one "
116 " To keep& be kept[...]The way lightkeeps its shadowby swallowing it. "
117 " He dies when you wake& it's November forever. "
118 " As if my finger / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors / was enough / to erase myself. To forget / we built this house knowing / it won't last. How / does anyone stop / regret / without cutting / off his hands? "
119 " some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don’t know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt "
120 " How / does anyone stop / regret / without cutting / off his hands? "