Long Division Quotes

“The body is ninety
percent water, ninety
percent thirst.

I have been searching
for a mineral
that drowns want.”
― Andrea Cohen, Long Division

“The other fish think me proud
or discontented with my station.

The birds think I'm beneath them.
Even submerged I am out

of my element, which I fear
the Lord in his haste

forgot to invent. I sent
a letter to him once, pleading:

make me this or make me that,
limbo is hell upon a fish.

I got a message back. It read:
Don't despair, I made you purposely

that way—bounding breathless
into space, the way I made

Adam and Eve, flitting
between the field and ruined gardens

of each other's airy arms.”
― Andrea Cohen, Long Division