Now That We Are So Modern Quotes

“There is a daycare center across the street. The children shriek during the best parts
of the poem. All the pots are in the sun. My body wears it's best face.
Freckles rush to the party. I want to move here, like I want to move
to every place I feel present. I want to move to this presence.”
― Lauren Zúñiga, Now That We Are So Modern

“What if it happens again? she asked. It won't, I said.
I was just having a bad day. I'm fine, I'm fine.

There is no hurt inside of a poem.
It's like a dream. No one can actually hurt you here.”
― Lauren Zúñiga, Now That We Are So Modern

“People often called the boy quiet.
They asked what was the matter as if talking
was the opposite of wrongness.”
― Lauren Zúñiga, Now That We Are So Modern

“That was the moment I started crying all the time. Al the fucking time. I am a cry in-a-box-feel-o-matic whose arms wind up every time it gets quiet. Why does everyone know your goddamn name? Why is the moon in all of your fucking poems? I can't go outside. I order eggs like I am picking satin for my casket. The thing about being cracked open is suddenly you can feel everything even when you don't want to. I used to be a card catalogue. Alphabetical drawers. Convenient decimals. Now the sad sleeps in every crevice, every Whole Foods, every doctor's office, in the park, in the car, erupting from any Bon Iver song or Ingrid fucking Michaelson. I go to Bikram yoga so I can sob and no one notices.”
― Lauren Zúñiga, Now That We Are So Modern