<div> —  Brianna Rennix <br> </div><span>That I would eat the cost of the ticket, rather than fighting it out in court, was a foregone conclusion. I told myself that this was because of my overweening pride and haughtiness, refusing to prostrate myself before The Man, and not because I’m lazy, impatient, and intermittently terrified of strangers. Nonetheless, I was still pretty shocked when I called the number as instructed, and a voice on the phone told me that I owed the city of Von Ormy a whopping $430 dollars. “I was seven miles above the speed limit!” I exclaimed. Yes, and that was $230, the voice told me patiently, plus an extra $200 for an expired registration. Still on the phone, I angrily googled Von Ormy and immediately found a number of news articles dubbing it a “libertarian experiment,” where residents aren’t charged taxes and which, consequently, seems to be in a constant state of economic freefall. That certainly explained why they have traffic cops stationed right on the part of the highway where the speed limit changes from 75 to 70.</span>

<div> —  Natalie Díaz, “Wolf OR-7” from <i>Postcolonial Love Poem</i><br> </div><span>Some things cannot be charted—<br> the middle-night cosmography of your moving hands,<br><br> the constellation holding the gods<br> of your jaw and ear.</span>

<div> —  Vincent Van Gogh </div><span>The sadness will last forever.</span>

<div> —  Nelson Mandela  </div><span>It always seems impossible until it’s done.</span>

<div> —  Slightly paraphrasing <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTAJackson20%2Fstatus%2F1223887717353713664&t=ODE5MTI0MTMxZTRiZGUwOGY2ZjU2NzdhYTY4ZmY2YjJkOWJlMjIyYyxZRGNtQ3Z0cw%3D%3D&b=t%3AssyT9BMjZucOtXv3G80S0w&p=https%3A%2F%2Fsamueldays.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F640509539638280192%2Fno-chinese-technocrat-ever-called-me-fragile-incel&m=0&ts=1610839859">TAJackson20</a>, who in turn is paraphrasing the black antiwar movement’s “No Viet Cong ever called me nigger”. </div><span>No Chinese technocrat ever called me fragile incel</span>