October 4, 2020

How am I to understand the fluidity with which we continue in our days?

It’s still a conspiracy theory when you believe in it.

Everyone is tired. Some of us have been tired.

Do you remember a place differently when you know you can return?

“Memory is geographic” - Alexander Chee on October 3 2020

The borders to the only country that will claim me are still closed.

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How am I to understand the fluidity with which we continue in our days?

How am I to understand all our looking away?

Teju Cole writes, “There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.”

—from liminal spaces iii in Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine