feast or famine
Tell Patient Zero he can have his rib back.
- Jun 15, 2020
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I'm wondering if anyone has any writers that move them that they'd like to recommend? It doesn't have to be exclusive to poetry. I enjoy reading a lot and I'm always on the hunt for new work. I know threads in Off Topic don't gain much traction, but it's worth a shot.
Below is a piece from one of my favorite writers, Dessa.
Life,
life is bad.
But people are good.
Regrettably, life is the only way to animate people.
They are otherwise slack dolls
slumped over their desks
whose limbs must be
stuffed through the holes in their clothing.
Life is a clumsy instrument,
the heavy key to wind a spring.
Life is also, incidentally,
the only good distraction
from my impending death.
Spiral Bound: A Little Note on All of It
Below is a piece from one of my favorite writers, Dessa.
Life,
life is bad.
But people are good.
Regrettably, life is the only way to animate people.
They are otherwise slack dolls
slumped over their desks
whose limbs must be
stuffed through the holes in their clothing.
Life is a clumsy instrument,
the heavy key to wind a spring.
Life is also, incidentally,
the only good distraction
from my impending death.
Spiral Bound: A Little Note on All of It
