At a certain point in your ordeal, it isn’t your ordeal that bothers… It is the fact that everything is… That’s what really bothers you. Because what happened is not OK,

One of God’s tricks is, similar to Michael Jordan, It sinks a three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left on the clock,

A Sacred Site, to my mind, is the last place you’ll ever stan… Such a place reveals hypocrisy without shaming,

It occurs to me now that no one hears my song. Still young, I am discarded. I don’t anticipate being surprised at my aloneness in old age.

I once found in what appeared to be cistern carved within a boulder, an owl’s wing,

The Rock made me to see each month as a day. The Rock implored that I be patie… with a patience so radical it slips into renunciation

I know people see him and think, “Gee, that’s crazy.” Which makes it embarrassing to see him

Every time I leave my parents’ ho… I am filled with a sweet sorrow. It has taken me half a lifetime to… and now I love them so dearly, so… They nor I are getting younger

Upon that special mound there is a cleanliness, a purity sanctimonious, something so perfect it’s numerological—

I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.

I have this sensation when remembering the poignant noteworthy moments, Lovers, the Dead, crimes—

I saw a man and his crumb snatcher… sprawled on the porch of their hom… it was painted a bright ocher with… small, modest, humble, clean, givi… A joy, in short.

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,

As far as the eye can see— Limitless blue nowhere to be found.