PRIOR: The fountain's not flowing now, they turn it off in the winter, ice in the pipes. But in the summer it's a sight to see. I want to be around to see it. I plan to be. I hope to be. This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.
Tony Kushner - Angels in America
*mentioned this in an interview today, the hope, the will to live! i have this committed to memory. justin kirk's prior walter you are so dear to me.

We are each others harvest;
We are each others business;
We are each others magnitude and bond
Gwendolyn Brooks - Paul Robeson
*first read this in akwaeke emezi's book PET and it has stayed with me since.

Nurse: I ask you again
You who watch.
How can there ever be any ending but this? First silence.
Then darkness.
Euripidies / Ben Power - Medea
*love it when a play acknowledges the loop the story is stuck in - there is only this story forevermore, today, tomorrow and in the next performance.

On the planking, on the ship's bulwarks, on the sea, with the course of the sun through the sky and the ship, an unreadable and wrenching script takes shape, takes shape and destroys itself at the same slow pace - shadows, spines, shafts of broken light refocused in the angles, the triangles of a fleeting geometry that yields to the shadow of the ocean waves. And then, unceasingly, lives again.
Marguerite Duras - The North China Love (stolen from Chaosmosis where it was an epigraph )
*just really like the writing and imagery, reminds me of dionne brand's blue clerk

As mourners, we rise when the names of those we have lost are called.
And when I was a child,
I wanted everyone to look as I stood.
Callie Siskel - Mourner's Logic
*Love this poem in its entirety but this part has always been striking for me