car child we; people in any case How may I help you? therefore, in that case to be fashionable It’s hot.
It’s cold. I would like… I would like… unfortunately to go shopping right away girl, young woman really
similar I would like… it’s worth (doing)
I tried on other friendships, like clothes that wouldn’t fit.
They did that trick on me, my forearm left in a crisp pack.
The crisp shards felt weirdly furry, impossible to remove.
Other than the sleeve, I was naked, dressed in this crinkly noise.
Electric heating came on, thank you for switching it on.
Still flushed from it, I fell into your moon shape, warm wishes.
'Dissociative virtuosity then, I think, includes both managing and submitting to—so power-bottoming for?—something like noncoherence, while neither romanticizing nor vilifying what’s noncoherent about it.' — Maxi Wallenhorst, Like a Real Veil, Like a Bad Analogy (2021)
'Having a trash chute was one of my favorite things about my building. It made me feel important, like I was participating in the world. My trash mixed with the trash of others. The things I touched touched things other people had touched. I was contributing, I was connecting.' - Otessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
We wanted to project him against a wall and play it on a loop, to watch his jaw turn toward us a thousand times, until the electricity finished, until our eyes collapsed.