Status Updates From Bestemming

The myth of our marriage exploded in a moment.

Why do we imagine the old are wise, I wonder, just because they read prestigious financial magazines? Just because they have been prime minister seven times? The pain is constant now. Deafening. You are walled up in another pain now.

It takes more than five years to understand a country like Italy, you said

“It wouldn’t be appropriate to buy the book of a man you have always envied while on the way to the clinic where your son committed suicide.”