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"When we finished, everyone applauded, even the string players. And that's saying something. They never applaud for anything."

"To get a better pension, many people would leave their familiar spots and resettle in Siberia, the Far North, or the Far East before their retirement because, in those places, with extreme climates or other calamities, salaries were much higher and paid according to geographical zones." —Larisa Rimerman via

"The philological patience of attending to each sign and an essay published in a university newspaper that holds open the possibility of letting different opinions and standpoints coexist without resolving into one: both are ways of carrying rather than losing."

   the wasp swing
when does it cease to trail
a lashing out
across generations carried
nest might be dead
but i have prayed again
poison
poison
poison

"Tired in a way that is not about today."