"what if we got caught? what if we died?"

we're inundated with content surrounding death and grief because it's the driving force behind everything we do and every decision we make.

"they tell you so many things, dripping in placation and well-meaning love. but what they don’t tell you?"

"and everytime i open my mouth, it only seems to send postcards devoid of destination."

"then one night did not go as he planned, when he stumbled upon an empty land."

"poetas danzantes, pulsiones cotidianes, & calavera."

"i was happiest about the fact that i could peep into what my parents now refer to as ‘the biggest regret of their lives.’"

"western society has been taught to fear death, to fight against it and hate it. but it doesn't have to be that way."

"but now i know i've been below earth for a long time."

"Young kittens without their mothers around rarely make it through but somehow you did, for whatever little time that you were alive."

"i imagined a fallen angel taking out the light left inside them in order to revive themself and catch the moment of enlightenment."

"i started this year with four grandparents. now, i have three."

a reinterpretation of klimt's life and death.

"grappling with our own mortality is one of the unique human conditions that sets us apart from other animals."

"through the many pages and verses of this book, i find myself leaving parts of me between page breaks and picking up parts of brandi."

"there is no guest list written out in advance for a funeral."

“just going to go check on begum sahiba,” zakir replied. the rest of the men laughed like zakir had made an actual joke.

"if i'm not the chaos, i don't want it. not even with you."

“when god created plastics to be discarded despite rarely moving on, god was in an especially sadistic mood.”

"graduation? we laugh and pop champagne in the silverfish-ridden living room of my student flat instead."