Some friends & I recently asked one another: what piece of art or literature can always get you to tear up, no matter what? Here’s mine:
… Life is short & the world
is at least half terrible, & for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.