They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

by Hanif Abdurraqib

the gospel is, in many ways, whatever gets people into the door to receive whatever blessings you have to offer.

It is one thing to be good at what you do, and it is another thing to be good and bold enough to have fun while doing it.

It feels, in tone and tension, like coming home for a summer after your first year of college, having tasted another existence and wanting more, but instead sleeping in your childhood room.

Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays. The heart scatters across states, and has nothing left after what home takes from it.

There are few sins greater than the ones we commit against ourselves in the name of others.