The Last Usable Hour
Deborah Landau
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I have nearly completed your disappearance”
“with his words in my head I slept for thirty or forty forevers while the grass shrieked and the trees tremored it was crazy letting my youth pass like that giving myself up to the abstract fears balconies collapsing over the east river as far as the eye could see until all is miniature wind over water without end when I am dead I will have something to say about death & all the men stretched out a girl must be a graveyard I am a descendant of fields and want to keep my mind off it, especially”
“so it came time and no day like that is ever good in the coming”
“immaculate middle-of-the-night quiet rainlessness the late moony sadness of the one specific mosquito dear someone you habituate me to the invisible I exit through you not as myself”
“and home isn't here and home isn't there”
“More and more it's deliciousness I want but all the time there's less of it.”
“I am always nighttime on the inside barefoot and heretic”
“How long can I sit here not doing the thing I want to do.”
“Everything gets more and more absurd.”
“you are floating alone in the cold blue these are the hours of blankness all the walls are bare”
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