Short poem: be brief and tell us everything.

– Charles Simic

Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad Listi @ Bookshop

Quotes

Ludicrous fantasies. My middle aged motions toward austerity. No car, no clarity, no social media. No lottery winnings, either. And how palm trees had always looked like toilet brushes to me, reaching up to the filthy sky. Life in all of its splendor, right here. There was something to be said about all of it, and if I had any guts, I would say it.

Things like Oscar asking me to make him a pasta smoothie, which he actually did the other day. Daddy, can I have a pasta smoothie? And dammit, I should’ve made him one.