You could never see us. You would have liked to, but we were way beyond your imagination. You, in your buildings, your economies, your questions…
(after Forgetting by Abigail Thomas)
You know how you just need to run a small errand and then your legs don’t work? It’s not that they stop working right away, it’s only that this one step takes a little longer, is a little harder and then you just shrug it off and make…
It can’t go on like this. I came to this country ten years ago, not voluntarily, but because of love…