death

There’s an intricate delicacy in shared looks across the room and bitten-back smiles behind brushed fingertips; another language in scribbled notes and tight, quick hugs. I want slow egg-cooking mornings and a midday coffee.

"A joke given by life will always be funny; therefore, those who don’t laugh at it are either too proud or too stupid."

He realized, then, that it was, unmistakably, the squirrel talking to him. The squirrel was talking to him.  

We put red roses out for your heavenly birthday. / Remembering life to forget death; so many seasons have passed since your death anniversary. / In our minds we plant a flower field — we still grow in your love.

Chance could have faced anywhere else, the fog rolling out to sea, the waning moon or maybe even just toward nothing at all, I walked right past his organs baking on the asphalt with a vacuum in my chest.

Places built for death live all over. They live in the stories surrounding the Winchester House; they live in cemeteries; they live in video games and novels and movies; and they have been living with us in various forms since the very first conception of death.

It is only with the proper mental health support in each period surrounding gun violence — before, during and after such events — that we can hope to find some alleviation of the current epidemic.

It made me feel out of control like phantom hands were controlling a marionette doll — except the doll was me, and the hands were my own brain.

But what of the foundations that remain inscribed / In this final resting place of stories and history? / Remember the true purpose that this place provides

Sophomore Rosa Wu reported that the members of her Physics 110 discussion section were working around the death of a participant pretty well.