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Ocean Vuong

  • Fernanda Cisneroshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    To be or not to be. That is the question. A question, yes, but not a choice.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    I kneel beside him to see how far

    I might sink. Do you know who I am,

    Ba? But the answer never comes. The answer

    is the bullet hole in his back, brimming

    with seawater. He is so still I think

    he could be anyone’s father
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    I turn him

    over. To face it. The cathedral

    in his sea-black eyes. The face

    not mine—but one I will wear

    to kiss all my lovers good-night:

    the way I seal my father’s lips

    with my own & begin

    the faithful work of drowning.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    He moves like any

    other fracture, revealing the briefest doors. The dress

    petaling off him like the skin

    of an apple. As if their swords

    aren’t sharpening

    inside him. This horse with its human

    face. This belly full of blades

    & brutes. As if dancing could stop the heart

    of his murderer from beating

    between his ribs.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    I open my eyes. His face
    between my hands, wet as a cut. If we make it to shore, he says, I will name our son after this water. I will learn to love a monster.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    He laughs but his eyes betray him. He laughs despite knowing he has ruined every beautiful thing just to prove beauty cannot change him.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    Everyone’s shouting or singing and he can’t tell whether the song is for him—or the burning rooms he mistook for childhood.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    Don’t you know? A mother’s love

    neglects pride

    the way fire

    neglects the cries

    of what it burns.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once.
  • liahat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    Maybe we pray on our knees because god

    only listens when we’re this close

    to the devil.
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