“You’re [a] monster. But so am I—which is why I can’t turn away from you.”— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Felice.”
Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems; “Orpheus”
[Text ID: “My body is something / I have worn / for other people.”]
Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; “On Loving”
[Text ID: “Do you know what I want of life? / That I can be with you, you, all of you, / and if life repeated a thousand times, / still you, you, and again, you.”]















