"December, 2017; I tell a boy with low self-esteem that I love him 'unconditionally' and now I have to prove it."

"Do they have any idea / what is it to be a hero? Of / chattering bones and burning flesh?"

"The first sign of life is the ability to /64 65 6E 79. The second is /regret"

"Most bookworms have lived the image: bedtime, the encompassing covers, a flashlight sparking a world."

"In these video games, there were victories and meaningless losses. I had something I didn’t have to be good at."

"rendition of justice, unprovoked and unasked to be / sacrificial hero with less"

"I dream within the confines of my sixteen-inch screen, mouse-scrolling and clicking in my sleep."

"Aren’t we like this seedling? Constantly budding through a land that has been broken into pieces."

"but too you ran scissors / up and down the powerlines / so the calls never made sense  /until the static of ashes proved / my mother right"

"my flowers have obituaries with names that don't match them and goodbyes that are wrong."

"No hables con her sobre this subject / Porque part of me is scared to complicate / Our memories compartimo"

“I can’t separate my experience of being raised by gay people from my experience of being raised by people who watched a lot of their friends die young."

"to our descendants, this relic is for you too. to our qt ancestors, thank you for seeding me in these fertile ruins."

"Our plan had been to wait until the next time we visited to tell them we would be moving in together, but I also had my own discreet plan."