They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

by Hanif Abdurraqib

It’s in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it.

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I’m not sold on pessimism as the new optimism. I need something that allows us to hope for something greater while confronting the mess of whatever all this blind hopefulness has driven us to.

I don’t want my people to die in order to be loved, or even seen.