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"True warfare in which large rival armies fight to the death is known only in man and in social insects."

"bsky needs a sad like button" —@wristroom.bsky.social

"I doubt it helps for it to be categorized as science fiction, or for it to be categorized at all."

"Like any good son, I pull my father out
of the water, drag him by his hair

through white sand, his knuckles carving a trail
the waves rush in to erase. Because the city

beyond the shore is no longer
where we left it. Because the bombed

cathedral is now a cathedral
of trees. 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, found
the way a green bottle might appear

at a boy's feet containing a year
he has never touched..."

—Ocean Vuong via

Nicolai Fechin in Taos.